tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org

#feminism #gender

https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/p3bctp/people_think_women_have_it_so_much_harder_in_life/

No.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/

#chatcontrol #privacy #EU

@satanasur Things are more complex than that. iirc, there were several versions of those machines, only a subset of which were actually built, and the whole enterprise of actually using them wasn't straightforward, either (math calculations vs general computations). There was correspondence and collaboration between #Babbage and #AdaLovelace. Some ideas were published, other kept private. Thus the confusion.

From the archive entitled
_“Ada Lovelace was the First Programmer in History”_
(note: [she was not](https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/technology/visionaries/ada-lovelace-original-and-visionary-but-no-programmer/)), now comes

_“The Construction of Brooklyn Bridge is Mostly a Tale of Female Empowerment Against all Odds”_

https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/p1qk72/during_the_construction_of_the_brooklyn_bridge/

Read also subsequent comments by OP.

#gender #feminism

https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/p0rmyb/ifallmendisappearedforaday_is_trending_on_twitter/h88rin8/

**Mismatching epistemological hierarchies** explain perhaps a quarter of #debates that end up unproductive or even bitter for me.

I wouldn't dare define my _Pyramid of Sources of #Truth_ without giving it some careful thought first, but… a first approximation:

💡 **Quantitative data or stats that are either common knowledge or directly accessible to most people** (eg, no. of seats in the Spanish Parliament, minimum height of all outside doors in Granada Cathedral).
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💡 **Quantitative data or stats issued by sources commonly understood to be authoritative and unbiased** (eg, average size of all dentist's offices in Norway according to the Ministry of Health).
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💡 **Old, peer-reviewed, published meta-analyses that are accessible** (eg via #SciHub) **to most people**.
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💡 **Old, peer-reviewed, published meta-analyses**.
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💡 **Old, peer-reviewed, published papers**.
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💡 **Peer-reviewed, published papers**.
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💡 **Peer-reviewed papers**.
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💡 **Reports, surveys, research, whitepapers, polls** — with a wild degree of confidence, depending on the particulars (see _parameters_ below).
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💡 **Published books, theatrical documentaries**.
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💡 **Self-published books, self-produced documentaries**.
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💡 **Long blog posts with links to secondary sources**.
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💡 **Newspaper articles** fall somewhere around here.
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💡 **Blog posts**.
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💡 **Online videos, tweets, screenshots, photos, voice messages, viral clips, copied-and-pasted quotes, hearsay, anecdote, feeling, hunch, rumour, revelation**.

In all cases, the bigger these **parameters**, the higher a particular #sourceOfTruth moves up my hierarchy:

🔺 Sample size.
🔺 No. ot times result has been reproduced.
🔺 Boringness of result (ie, how common-sensical and unsurprising it seems to the average person).
🔺 Parsimoniousness (ie, simplicity) of interpretations given for result.
🔺 Awkwardness of result for parties involved (ie, how inconvenient it is for the interests of authors themselves).

This move by #Apple

> _“is the endorsement by one of the largest industry players of the principle that ubiquitous #spyware on consumer computing devices is normal and acceptable in free societies. […] The core question is whether we wish to normalize the sale of personal computing devices that come preinstalled with spyware outside the control of the user and owner, however noble the purpose to which that spyware is initially put. The answer free societies have given to that question for the past five decades is the right one: No.”_

https://www.cato.org/blog/apples-iphone-now-built-surveillance

@admin@masto.nogafam.es Mi experiencia personal con #Diaspora fue decepcionante: mala usabilidad, falta de funcionalidades importantes, y estancamiento (desarrollo muy lento)… 🤷‍♂️