Yours truly on AI adoption, the media's existential crisis, epistemic injustice and erasure, AI-facilitated gender-based violence and devaluation of women's labour in the media.
https://zenodo.org/records/18506103
#AI #LLMs #media #EpistemicInjustice #EpistemicErasure #Gender #TFGBV #labour
Yours truly on AI adoption, the media's existential crisis, epistemic injustice and erasure, AI-facilitated gender-based violence and devaluation of women's labour in the media.
https://zenodo.org/records/18506103
#AI #LLMs #media #EpistemicInjustice #EpistemicErasure #Gender #TFGBV #labour
Why Males Exist by Fred Hapgood, 1979
An Inquiry Into the Evolution of Sex
A provocative examination of why the male gender exists at all shapes up as something of an antidote to the more macho sexual tracts that have been appearing in the wake of sociobiology. (E.g., Wallace, below.) The Atlantic Monthly science columnist goes so far as to say that "males have been devised by females to aid them in their competition with other females."
#books
#nonfiction
#gender
#males
#sex
#evolution
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>>> A new edition of the #CommunityNetworks Newsletter is out! You’ll find news and resources from a growing movement that puts communities at the forefront of efforts to bridge the digital divide.
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Judith Butler: “We are witnessing the restoration of patriarchy, nationalism, racism and capitalist individualism. It is the nostalgic fury of right-wing movements that want to return to an idealised past, one that perhaps never truly existed, and to re-establish hierarchical orders."
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/01/judith-butler-patriarchy-non-binary/
Judith Butler: “We are witnessing the restoration of patriarchy, nationalism, racism and capitalist individualism. It is the nostalgic fury of right-wing movements that want to return to an idealised past, one that perhaps never truly existed, and to re-establish hierarchical orders."
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/01/judith-butler-patriarchy-non-binary/
#LLM proponents are disproportionately male, while critics or people who take a more sceptical stance do tend to be, in aggregate, more female and less binary in #gender on the whole. Sometimes this is innocuous, but other times it leads to things like Kat Marchin being driven off the internet thanks to relentless death threats over the Openslopware project. The point is that there's a noticeable asymmetry in the people who are for the use of coding agents as opposed to those who have a warier attitude to the tech, and that this asymmetry isn't exactly innocuous.
- Iris Meredith, The problem is culture https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/the_problem_is_culture
The problem is culture | deadSimpleTech
#AI is neither artificial nor intelligent. Rather, artificial intelligence is both embodied and material, made from natural resources, fuel, human labor, infrastructures, logistics, histories, and classifications.
- Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI
#LLM proponents are disproportionately male, while critics or people who take a more sceptical stance do tend to be, in aggregate, more female and less binary in #gender on the whole. Sometimes this is innocuous, but other times it leads to things like Kat Marchin being driven off the internet thanks to relentless death threats over the Openslopware project. The point is that there's a noticeable asymmetry in the people who are for the use of coding agents as opposed to those who have a warier attitude to the tech, and that this asymmetry isn't exactly innocuous.
- Iris Meredith, The problem is culture https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/the_problem_is_culture
The problem is culture | deadSimpleTech
Do #psychedelics aid reasoning?
In over 5000 participants, psychedelic users scored better on some tests — but they were also younger, more educated men.
Correcting for #age, #gender, and #education nullified differences in reflective thinking.
Bolt works for the mob. A primary motivator for how she deals with the civilians trying to enter her life is not letting them get hurt by her employers. Discovering a child needing care, but whom has no parents she can find, would send her into a tail spin (figuratively only, since she's a day angel that can fly). Becoming attached would be catastrophic for her and the kid. There are few things she would go to the constabulary to deal with, but she'd risk the coppers for the sake of a child. No way is she keeping it; no way would she walk away, leaving it on the pavement either.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
Bolt works for the mob. A primary motivator for how she deals with the civilians trying to enter her life is not letting them get hurt by her employers. Discovering a child needing care, but whom has no parents she can find, would send her into a tail spin (figuratively only, since she's a day angel that can fly). Becoming attached would be catastrophic for her and the kid. There are few things she would go to the constabulary to deal with, but she'd risk the coppers for the sake of a child. No way is she keeping it; no way would she walk away, leaving it on the pavement either.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
Update. "By analyzing all articles indexed in the PubMed database (>36.5 million articles published in >36,000 biomedical and life sciences journals), we show that the median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles."
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003574
Update. A letter to the editor about a study I posted to this thread 11/23/25: "The suggestion that [the lower #retraction rate for women] is because male researchers undergo more scrutiny, propose bolder ideas and lead larger and more dynamic teams than do female researchers implies that male scientists are better at science. As female scientists, our lived experience points to alternative explanations: elevated rigour and scientific integrity by female scientists or more critical peer review of female-led manuscripts."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00120-y
( #paywalled)
Update. "By analyzing all articles indexed in the PubMed database (>36.5 million articles published in >36,000 biomedical and life sciences journals), we show that the median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles."
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003574
King – man + woman is queen; but why? (2017)
https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2017/01/king-man-woman-queen-why/
#HackerNews #King #man #woman #queen #why #2017 #relationships #gender #roles
Update. "We conduct a comprehensive comparison between peer-review scores and citation-based metrics across various scientific fields [in Italy]…While both evaluation methods exhibit sex bias, peer review systematically penalizes women more severely than citation-based metrics."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157725001245
Update. "We conduct a comprehensive comparison between peer-review scores and citation-based metrics across various scientific fields [in Italy]…While both evaluation methods exhibit sex bias, peer review systematically penalizes women more severely than citation-based metrics."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751157725001245
Update. A letter to the editor about a study I posted to this thread 11/23/25: "The suggestion that [the lower #retraction rate for women] is because male researchers undergo more scrutiny, propose bolder ideas and lead larger and more dynamic teams than do female researchers implies that male scientists are better at science. As female scientists, our lived experience points to alternative explanations: elevated rigour and scientific integrity by female scientists or more critical peer review of female-led manuscripts."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00120-y
( #paywalled)
This morning I have been thinking about my gender expression, as you do. And I have realised that nothing about me has changed. I have never been a girly girl. I was a tomboy growing up, and I didn't grow out of it.
And for a long while, that was fine. The only person who had a problem with that was my mother. And her constant attempts to make me "make something of myself" made me feel shit, but that's just her. No one else seemed to mind. 1/2 #gender
