tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
After a load of stats and surveys from different sources, starting in the 70s and spanning half a century:
> _“Men are more committed than women to the pursuit of #truth as the_ raison d’être _of #science, while women are more committed to various moral goals, such as equity, inclusion, and the protection of vulnerable groups. […] #Men are relatively more interested in advancing what is empirically correct, and #women are relatively more interested in advancing what is morally desirable.”_
Two thinkers I follow and respect, @jonhaidt and @profgalloway, are now advocating the need of some kind of ID for users of online social media. It's an idea I always found intuitively repellent, and I fear the negative consequences that would have — but their arguments in favour are making me doubt.
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RT @SpacChad
This is how techno is made if you didn’t already know
And #stats like these:
* _“Men account for just 24% of K-12 teachers, down from 33% in the early 1980s.”_
* _“Only one in ten elementary #school teachers are male.”_
* _“In early #education, men are virtually invisible. It ought to be a source of national shame that only 3% of pre-K and kindergarten #teachers are men.”_
* _“There are twice as many women flying U.S. military planes as there are #men teaching kindergarten (as a share of the occupation).”_
— [Richard Reeves](https://ofboysandmen.substack.com/p/men-can-heal)
THIS.
> _“We need a massive […] effort to **get men to move into jobs in the growing fields of health, education, administration, and literacy (HEAL)**, equivalent to the successful campaign to get women into STEM.”_
> _“There are three pressing reasons to get more #men into #HEAL.”_
> _“First, given the decline in traditional male occupations, men need to look to these sectors for jobs. Blue collar jobs are disappearing. There will be more STEM jobs, too — but these are much smaller occupations. #STEM accounts for only about 7% of all jobs, compared to 23% in HEAL.”_
> _“The second reason […] is to help meet labor shortages in critical occupations. Almost half of all registered nurses are now over the age of 50. […] We face labor shortages in two of the largest and most important sectors of our economy — health care and #education. But we are trying to solve them with only half the workforce.”_
> _“The third argument […] is to provide a better service to #boys and men. Many would prefer to be cared for by a man, especially in certain circumstances. Consider the case of a man in need of help using the bathroom in a hospital or care home, or the middle-aged man needing a therapist to help with his addiction to pornography, or the fatherless teenage boy needing help from a psychologist with their substance abuse. It is not ideal if most substance abuse counselors are women (76%) when most substance abusers are men (67%), or that most special education teachers are women (84%) when most students being referred to special education are male (64%).”_
> _“Getting more men into HEAL occupations would be good for men, good for the professions, and good for clients — a win-win-win.”_
— [Richard Reeves](https://ofboysandmen.substack.com/p/men-can-heal)
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#Flickr, year 2,709:
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I can buy a home that is close to work/school (to save time and money and avoid polluting) — or a home that is nice to live in (spacious, bright, quiet, on a pretty neighbourhood).
I don't seem to be able to do both without going astray from #FIRE.
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Managed to convince #midjourney to create some #hackerspace #illustration s!
CC-BY-NC 4.0 Midjourney
I love the warmth, colors, the welcoming feel, the magical atmosphere. Exactly what I wanted to convet with Glider!
Prompt: hackerspace, hackers, programmers, computers, LEDs, warm light, by Miyazaki, Nausicaa Ghibli
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RT @ai__pub@twitter.com
// Stable Diffusion, Explained //
You've seen the Stable Diffusion AI art all over Twitter.
But how does Stable Diffusion _work_?
A thread explaining diffusion models, latent space representations, and context injection:
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#Nitter is an AGPLv3 licensed #Twitter frontend with all the features of the default site -- but more importantly -- it returns all of the freedom that Twitter's nonfree JavaScript takes away from you. Try out one of the instances at https://nitter.net
Millones de mamíferos superiores viviendo y muriendo en condiciones deplorables cada año, y queremos salvar a Laika.
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
