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prokopetz · 2 years
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All animals are either Beasts or Creatures. This is usually consistent for a given species, but not always; for example, most dogs are Beasts and most cats are Creatures, but occasionally one will encounter a cat who is clearly a Beast, or dog who's an absolute Creature.
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rosaluxembae · 1 year
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I hope it’s okay to reply to someone else’s anonymous question on here but like it’s incredibly funny to me.
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The Rhoynar are from Essos too and are equally as POC or not as the Orphans of the Greenblood, if not Salty Dornishmen. They’re described the same as Myrmen:
“The Myrmen are believed by certain maesters to be akin to the Rhoynar, as many of them share the same olive skin and dark hair as the river people, but this supposed link is likely spurious.” - The World of Ice and Fire
That this is notable implies the rest of the Free Cities are different. Meanwhile, Lyseni notably share distincitive ethnic features with Valaryans. The Braavosi have no standard look because it’s a meltingpot of all different peoples. Illyrio Mopatis (Pentosi) has “a huge white belly”. Griff and Young Griff pass as Tyroshi by dying their hair. The fact that noone else from the Free Cities (*Including Norvosi like Areo Hotah and Mellario*) has mentioned ethnic features implies that they’re the same as Westrosi. A charitable reason is it’s not notable to Westrosi characters, a less charitable one would be that GRRM sees white people as default.
Hell, even the Andals are originally from Essos. It’s kinda ironic to say the view of Dorne is Orientalist and at the same time being like “Oh you know that whole continent that vaguely analogous to Eurasia? It’s all Eastern so it’s all pretty much the same place. I’m sure it’s ethnically homogenious”. *Dorne* isn’t even ethnically homogenous.
Honestly, the term POC is completely useless describing actual Earth history until at least the late 15th Century (and tbh the binary view of race is mostly a product of the 19th Century US Democratic Party) let alone the fictional medieval world of ASOIAF, but if the Rhoynar aren’t POC, there’s no way the Norvosi are.
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selflesstwin · 2 years
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kaninchenzero · 3 years
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like, relative morality doesn't have a place in the ascii v everything else in existence fight, since that's a zero sum game with a binary solution set: win or die
(and some might choose death but most living entities have a preference for existence over nonexistence, also not a question where morality applies)
but since the ascii try to make it a moral question? let's entertain that a moment
their goal is to restore the world as it was, prior to the calamity that culminated in the final days and the creation of zodiark
which, fine, that's a pretty normal initial human response to trauma, after i shot myself, every day for months i woke up confused by that reality and had to accept it as if it were new and that process sucked dead donkey ass
the means by which the ascii hope to achieve that goal (for there is no certainty that it would actually work) is...
to destroy the worlds that exist, killing all that live in them
which somehow is not murder since the ascii believe only themselves to be human and everything else to be mere symptoms of the wrongness of the worlds that are
only the destruction of ascii counts as murder
obviously this is a philosophically untenable notion but is commonly held by reactionaries like real world white supremacists
but set that aside because this isn't a question of who holds some spurious moral high ground
the outrage felt by the ascii that the people of the world that is oppose both the goal of the ascii and the means by which they would achieve that goal leaves me totally unmoved
we had no part in creating this world
the asciis' claim that their goal serves the greatest good failed to convince even their unsundered contemporaries
why should i bother to entertain it?
if the ascii offer salvation, i will be damned
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natrashafierce · 3 years
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The author of that terrible Your Fave is Problematic Tumblr has grown up and written a great piece for The New York Times expressing regret about picking people apart and talking about how (surprise, surprise) it was really just that she was young and poorly adjusted and had gone through some stuff.
I hope more people can be honest with themselves that most of us are susceptible to weird, spurious extremist stuff online if we’re in a bad enough mood, and you can always just, like, stop and change course and be someone who tries to spread forgiveness and humility instead of accruing points for tiresome, punitive, identity-obsessed nitpicking. I completely forgive the author of the blog and applaud her for this extra step that will surely expose her to the same sort of poorly adjusted person she used to be.
I also hope more people come to understand that they shouldn’t signal boost people articulating extremist things, because all it does it create a contagion of poor mental health and social behaviors that are counterproductive to achieving anything positive. It’s normal for people to get angry, and everyone has every right to rant in their own online space, and you don’t have to invalidate anyone’s moment of anger. But you can comfort them without reblogging or retweeting them. You don’t have to enable their descent into binary thinking by rewarding them with a ton of attention and influence.
It may be “tone policing” to try to tell any one individual how to express themselves, but it is not “tone policing” to suggest that society should not take our cues and policy ideas from people who are hysterical. Almost no one is good at formulating solutions to social problems, and angry people least of all. Every marginalized group has at least SOME people who are capable of remaining fair, nuanced, and rational despite what they’ve gone through, and those are the people to signal boost if you take societal problems seriously. They tend to have a much more complete perspective on an issue than someone who has barely read or experienced anything outside themselves except for the dozens of aggro internet posts that end up in their bubble.
Chronically angry people see everything through the lens of their anger and their ego, do not seek perspectives or explanations that would defuse them, and their ideas for solutions will tend to be unfair and dehumanzing. Now the internet pays people for that, and people psychologically stagnate because their newfound career depends on it and their reputation seems locked in by the long memory of the internet. Grounded people have learned to control their egos, seek genuine understanding of those who disagree with them, and are capable of finding uplifting solutions, but those people are getting drowned out and harassed offline nowadays.
It used to be that people would have their big moments of anger and, lacking any audience except for a few people they knew, had to learn to introspect, calm themselves down, and approach problems effectively. They would often get gently challenged by the people around them and pulled back into a healthy mindset. They would confront interpersonal problems privately instead of trying to tear people down publicly, and extremism only arose in bad social circles or with especially recalcitrant people. But now that everyone gets their basest impulses rewarded by strangers as poorly adjusted as they are, there is little incentive for introspection or growth. This got worse for a lot of us during the Trump years, I think, because the shock of his incivility made it seem like civility had been a losing tactic. I know I felt like that for a few years until I realized how easily I could be manipulated into believing the worst about someone if it played to my biases. Unfettered mass venting just contributed to a bad cycle.
One of the worst things is how the crazed brigades accrue well-intentioned allies who enforce their insane, unpopular ideas and, together, tank public support for what were once important political objectives. SO MANY people were into the Your Fave is Problematic blog and would troll tags for the celebrities mentioned just to harass and intimidate people who were fans, and they were all indoctrinated into a disordered, shallow worldview were they derived their worth from tearing people down instead of cultivating their own talents. Your Fave is Problematic was by no means the first or only vector for leftist identitarian brain worms, but it was an influential one. There’s a whole lot of obnoxious Tumblr stuff that leaks out into the larger world now.
Back then I thought people would grow out of it, but either a ton of them didn’t, or else those who did just got replaced by new people. I thought right-wingers were catastrophizing and exaggerating when they fixated on it because a lot of the time they were, and too many of them couldn’t criticize it without being dehumanizing themselves. But sure enough, it got worse. I realize now that regardless of ideology, extremism always gets worse if there are incentives for it to grow, and the internet supplies those incentives in spades. This stuff didn’t stay on Tumblr; it didn’t stay on some stray college campuses. They said it wouldn’t, and they were right.
And now it has infected more mainstream, influential spheres of life with infantilizing and dehumanizing ideas that train people to perceive everyone as an aggressor or a pinata they can beat up for clout. It’s increasingly ruined more innocent lives, all while people who are ideologically captured keep insisting it’s no big deal because that’s the line in their social circle. The goalposts move every week to provide more targets, and even left-leaning media has quit thoroughly investigating a lot of things in its rush to cash in on whatever social media controvery has been ginned up by unwell people. The corrections, when they come out, are almost never widely circulated.
It’s been surreal and disheartening to watch. People I used to consider reasonable and compassionate just gradually morphed into aggrieved, insecure pod people who can’t handle the slightest challenges of evidence against their worldview. They can’t accept that their insecurities and peeves are frivolous distractions that actually do materially harm efforts to fix serious problems, whether by beclowning entire political parties or candidates, or diverting resources to organizations that aren’t changing anything significant or are making things worse. They all even say the same tired phrases. It’s such a shitshow, but public opinion polling on this stuff has remained mostly sane. A lot of people are snapping out of it like the author of YFIP, so I can only hope that more people feel comfortable to finally push back against it.
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scifigeneration · 4 years
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An Earth-sized planet found in the habitable zone of a nearby star
by Ravi Kumar Kopparapu
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An artist’s impression of an exoplanet in the habitable zone around a star. Credits: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
A few months ago a group of NASA exoplanet astronomers, who are in the business of discovering planets around other stars, called me into a secret meeting to tell me about a planet that had captured their interest. Because my expertise lies in modeling the climate of exoplanets, they asked me to figure out whether this new planet was habitable – a place where liquid water might exist.
These NASA colleagues, Josh Schlieder and his students Emily Gilbert, Tom Barclay and Elisa Quintana, had been studying data from TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) when they discovered what may be TESS’ first known Earth-sized planet in a zone where liquid water could exist on the surface of a terrestrial planet. This is very exciting news because this new planet is relatively close to Earth, and it may be possible to observe its atmosphere with either the James Webb Space Telescope or ground-based large telescopes.
Habitable zone planets
The host star of the planet that Gilbert’s team discovered is called TESS of Interest number 700, or TOI-700. Compared to the Sun, it is a small, dim star. It is 40% the size, only about 1/50 of the Sun’s brightness and is located about 100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado, which is visible from our Southern Hemisphere. For comparison, the nearest star to us, Proxima Centauri, is 4.2 light-years away from Earth. To get a sense of these distances, if you were to travel on the fastest spacecraft (Parker Solar Probe) to reach Proxima Centauri, it would take nearly 20,000 years.
There are three planets around TOI-700: b, c and d. Planet d is Earth-size, within the star’s habitable zone and orbits TOI-700 every 37 days. My colleagues wanted me to create a climate model for Planet d using the known properties of the star and planet. Planets b and c are Earth-size and mini-Neptune-size, respectively. However, they orbit much closer to their host star, receiving 5 times and 2.6 times the starlight that our own Earth receives from the Sun. For comparison, Venus, a dry and hellishly hot world with surface temperature of approximately 860 degrees Fahrenheit, receives twice the sunlight of Earth.
Until about a decade ago, only two habitable zone planets of any size were known to astronomers: Earth and Mars. Within the last decade, however, thanks to discoveries made through both ground-based telescopes and the Kepler mission (which also looked for exoplanets from 2009 to 2019, but is now retired), astronomers have discovered about a dozen terrestrial-sized exoplanets. These are between half and two times larger than the Earth within the habitable zones of their host stars.
Despite the relatively large number of small exoplanet discoveries to date, the majority of stars are between 600 to 3,000 light-years away from Earth – too far and dim for detailed follow-up observation.
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TESS has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star’s habitable zone, the range of distances where conditions may be just right to allow the presence of liquid water on the surface.
Why is liquid water important for habitability?
Unlike Kepler, TESS’ mission is to search for planets around the Sun’s nearest neighbors: those bright enough for follow-up observations.
Between April 2018 and now, TESS discovered more than 1,500 planet candidates. Most are more than twice the size of Earth with orbits of less than 10 days. Earth, of course, takes 365 days to orbit around our Sun. As a result, the planets receive significantly more heat than Earth receives from the Sun and are too hot for liquid water to exist on the surface.
Liquid water is essential for habitability. It provides a medium for chemicals to interact with each other. While it is possible for exotic life to exist at higher pressures, or hotter temperatures – like the extremophiles found near hydro-thermal vents or the microbes found half a mile beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet – those discoveries were possible because humans were able to directly probe those extreme environments. They would not have been detectable from space.
When it comes to finding life, or even habitable conditions, beyond our solar system, humans depend entirely upon remote observations. Surface liquid water may create habitable conditions that can potentially promote life. These life forms can then interact with the atmosphere above, creating remotely detectable bio-signatures that Earth-based telescopes can detect. These bio-signatures could be current Earth-like gas compositions (oxygen, ozone, methane, carbon dioxide and water vapor), or the composition of ancient Earth 2.7 billion years ago (mostly methane and carbon dioxide, and no oxygen).
We know one such planet where this has already happened: Earth. Therefore, astronomers’ goal is to find those planets that are about Earth-size, orbiting at those distances from the star where water could exist in liquid form on the surface. These planets will be our primary targets to hunt for habitable worlds and signatures of life outside our solar system.
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The three planets of the TOI 700 system orbit a small, cool M dwarf star. TOI 700 d is the first Earth-size habitable-zone world discovered by TESS. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Possible climates for planet TOI-700 d
To prove that TOI-700 d is real, Gilbert’s team needed to confirm using data from a different type of telescope. TESS detects planets when they cross in front of the star, causing a dip in the starlight. However, such dips could also be created by other sources, such as spurious instrumental noise or binary stars in the background eclipsing each other, creating false positive signals. Independent observations came from Joey Rodriguez at Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University. Rodriguez and his team confirmed the TESS detection of TOI-700 d with the Spitzer telescope, and removed any remaining doubt that it is a genuine planet.
My student Gabrielle Engelmann-Suissa and I used our modeling software to figure out what type of climate might exist on planet TOI-700 d. Because we do not yet know what kind of gases this planet may actually have in its atmosphere, we use our climate models to explore possible gas combinations that would support liquid oceans on its surface. Engelmann-Suissa, with the help of my longtime collaborator Eric Wolf, tested various scenarios including the current Earth atmosphere (77% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, remaining methane and carbon dioxide), the composition of Earth’s atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago (mostly methane and carbon dioxide) and even a Martian atmosphere (a lot of carbon dioxide) as it possibly existed 3.5 billion years ago.
Based on our models, we found that if the atmosphere of planet TOI-700 d contains a combination of methane or carbon dioxide or water vapor, the planet could be habitable. Now our team needs to confirm these hypotheses with the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Bacteria living in harsh conditions like this geothermal basin in Yellowstone National Park provide clues about habitable zones on other planets. 1tomm/Shutterstock.com
Strange new worlds and their climates
The climate simulations our NASA team has completed suggest that an Earth-like atmosphere and gas pressure isn’t adequate to support liquid water on its surface. If we put the same quantity of greenhouse gases as we have on Earth on TOI-700 d, the surface temperature on this planet would still be below freezing.
Our own atmosphere supports a liquid ocean on Earth now because our star is quite big and brighter than TOI-700. One thing is for sure: All of our teams’ modeling indicates that the climates of planets around small and dim stars like TOI-700 are very unlike what we see on our Earth.
The field of exoplanets is now in a transitional era from discovering them to characterizing their atmospheres. In the history of astronomy, new techniques enable new observations of the universe including surprises like the discovery of hot-Jupiters and mini-Neptunes, which have no equivalent in our solar system. The stage is now set to observe the atmospheres of these planets to see which ones have conditions that support life.
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About The Author:
Ravi Kumar Kopparapu is a Research Scientist of Planetary Studies at NASA
This article is republished from our content partners over at The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. 
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[John] Money and his colleagues appraised intersexed bodies to be “abnormal” and in need of immediate medical treatment, despite concluding that sexed identity had no instinctual or innate basis. The clinical literature produced by those upon whom authority is conferred to make such pronouncements is in fact replete with references to the birth, or expected birth, of an intersexed infant as (for instance) “a medical emergency,” “a neonatal surgical emergency,” and “a devastating problem.” Since this is the almost universal reaction of medical practitioners to the birth (or expected birth) of an intersexual baby, substantial resources are mobilized to “correct” these so-called unfortunate errors of nature, including genetic “therapies” known to carry risks to the unborn, multiple surgeries that often result in genital insensitivity from repeated scarring, and life-long regiments of hormone treatments. That these culturally condoned practices of genetic manipulation, surgical mutilation, and chemical control (these technologies of normalization) circulate as remedial measures performed on the basis of spurious projections about the future best interests of a given infant de-politicizes their disciplinary character; in addition, the role they play in naturalizing binary sex-gender and upholding heterosexual normativity remains disguised.
- Shelley Tremain, “On the Government of Disability: Foucault, Power, and the Subject of Impairment” in The Disability Studies Reader (2006)
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v6.1.0-next.0
Look at that! A feature bump! npm@6 was super-exciting not just because it used a bigger number than ever before, but also because it included a super shiny new command: npm audit. Well, we've kept working on it since then and have some really nice improvements for it. You can expect more of them, and the occasional fix, in the next few releases as more users start playing with it and we get more feedback about what y'all would like to see from something like this.
I, for one, have started running it (and the new subcommand...) in all my projects, and it's one of those things that I don't know how I ever functioned without it! This will make a world of difference to so many people as far as making the npm ecosystem a higher-quality, safer commons for all of us.
This is also a good time to remind y'all that we have a new RFCs repository, along with a new process for them. This repo is open to anyone's RFCs, and has already received some great ideas about where we can take the CLI (and, to a certain extent, the registry). It's a great place to get feedback, and completely replaces feature requests in the main repo, so we won't be accepting feature requests there at all anymore. Check it out if you have something you'd like to suggest, or if you want to keep track of what the future might look like!
NEW FEATURE: npm audit fix
This is the biggie with this release! npm audit fix does exactly what it says on the tin. It takes all the actionable reports from your npm audit and runs the installs automatically for you, so you don't have to try to do all that mechanical work yourself!
Note that by default, npm audit fix will stick to semver-compatible changes, so you should be able to safely run it on most projects and carry on with your day without having to track down what breaking changes were included. If you want your (toplevel) dependencies to accept semver-major bumps as well, you can use npm audit fix --force and it'll toss those in, as well. Since it's running the npm installer under the hood, it also supports --production and --only=dev flags, as well as things like --dry-run, --json, and --package-lock-only, if you want more control over what it does.
Give it a whirl and tell us what you think! See npm help audit for full docs!
3800a660d Add npm audit fix subcommand to automatically fix detected vulnerabilities. (@zkat)
OTHER NEW audit FEATURES
1854b1c7f #20568 Add support for npm audit --json to print the report in JSON format. (@finnp)
85b86169d #20570 Include number of audited packages in npm install summary output. (@zkat)
957cbe275 [email protected]: Overhaul audit install and detail output format. The new format is terser and fits more closely into the visual style of the CLI, while still providing you with the important bits of information you need. They also include a bit more detail on the footer about what actions you can take! (@zkat)
NEW FEATURE: GIT DEPS AND npm init <pkg>!
Another exciting change that came with npm@6 was the new npm init command that allows for community-authored generators. That means you can, for example, do npm init react-app and it'll one-off download, install, and run create-react-app for you, without requiring or keeping around any global installs. That is, it basically just calls out to npx.
The first version of this command only really supported registry dependencies, but now, @jdalton went ahead and extended this feature so you can use hosted git dependencies, and their shorthands.
So go ahead and do npm init facebook/create-react-app and it'll grab the package from the github repo now! Or you can use it with a private github repository to maintain your organizational scaffolding tools or whatnot. ✨
483e01180 #20403 Add support for hosted git packages to npm init <name>. (@jdalton)
BUGFIXES
a41c0393c #20538 Make the new npm view work when the license field is an object instead of a string. (@zkat)
eb7522073 #20582 Add support for environments (like Docker) where the expected binary for opening external URLs is not available. (@bcoe)
212266529 #20536 Fix a spurious colon in the new update notifier message and add support for the npm canary. (@zkat)
5ee1384d0 #20597 Infer a version range when a package.json has a dist-tag instead of a version range in one of its dependency specs. Previously, this would cause dependencies to be flagged as invalid. (@zkat)
4fa68ae41 #20585 Make sure scoped bundled deps are shown in the new publish preview, too. (@zkat)
1f3ee6b7e [email protected]: Stop dropping size from metadata on npm cache verify. (@jfmartinez)
91ef93691 #20513 Fix nested command aliases. (@mmermerkaya)
18b2b3cf7 [email protected]: Make sure different versions of the Path env var on Windows all get node_modules/.bin prepended when running lifecycle scripts. (@laggingreflex)
DOCUMENTATION
a91d87072 #20550 Update required node versions in README. (@legodude17)
bf3cfa7b8 Pull in changelogs from the last npm@5 release. (@iarna)
b2f14b14c #20629 Make tone in publishConfig docs more neutral. (@jeremyckahn)
DEPENDENCY BUMPS
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radicalfem-kat · 4 years
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This is a question I get asked a lot and, to be honest, it’s one of the hardest to answer. Firstly, being asked to second guess someone else’s motivation is problematic. I can only guess what they’re thinking based on their behaviour, I can’t know. Secondly, I don’t think it has a simple answer, like most things in life. Still, it bears discussion, so I’m going to try to explore the phenomenon.
Before we begin, a quick history lesson.
Trans people claiming to have some sort of DSD/intersex status is not a new phenomenon. I’m going to illustrate his with the story of Agnes Torres, probably one of the most well documented cases ever.
In 1962, 20-year-old Agnes was referred to University of California Medical Center at Los Angeles because of “progressive feminization” since the age of 12. Agnes is described in science papers as presenting with “feminine body contours and hair pattern and large, well-developed breasts coexisting with the normal external genitalia of a male.” Medical history indicated that Agnes had been a typically presenting, healthy male at birth and had remained so pre-puberty. Then, during puberty, a “progressive deepening of the voice, phallic enlargement, development of a feminine pubic hair pattern and progressive breast enlargement” had occurred. Agnes also expressed a desire to have been a woman since childhood and to have had an interest in “girls’ toys”.
Agnes’ case baffled doctors. Numerous tests were carried out. None provided any conclusive answers for her appearance.  She was found to have an excess of oestrogen, which explained the feminised development, but doctors could not explain why this had happened. She was eventually diagnosed with a rare form of ‘male pseudohermaphroditism with feminizing testis’, an outdated term used back then for Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS).
Agnes wanted sex reassignment surgery (SRS) to align her genitalia with the rest of her appearance. Doctors agreed, due to Agnes’ hyper-feminised appearance and traits (Agnes spoke at length in psychological interviews about studying how women behaved and taking instruction form her boyfriend, Bill, on how to pass as a woman), that Agnes was “entitled” to a vagina and so SRS was performed.
Agnes stayed in touch with the doctors who had treated her and written about the case. She dropped a bombshell though when, 5 years later, she revealed she had been self-medicating with oestrogen tablets, stolen from their mother, since the age of 12. This was the cause of Agnes’ feminisation, not a mysterious intersex condition.
It would seem Agnes was uncomfortable with her own sexuality and gender non-conforming behaviour. It’s impossible to think that 12-year-old Agnes really understood the consequences of taking female hormones. In fact, doctors described Agnes’ belief that she may become a woman as sort of magical thinking. It may be that she believed the medication would help that process. She certainly seemed to have had no thought of the need for surgical alteration until later in life.
Much has been written about the case since, exploring the reasons that Agnes may have chosen to lie to doctors, but also why they were so taken in. The main theory seems to be that doctors and Agnes felt she needed some “true claim” to womanhood to be eligible for SRS and to explain her feminine appearance and behaviour. Constructing an intersex narrative positioned Agnes as the victim of a mistake by nature that could be fixed by man. This clearly appealed to the doctors who could make a name for themselves by being the ones treating her and reporting on the case. Agnes herself said later in life she had co-operated with whatever the doctors said in the hope that this would mean surgery was performed as quickly as possible.
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It’s interesting to note that many of Agnes’ comments have since been criticised as being homophobic and transphobic. She referred to trans and homosexual people as “abnormal” and explicitly did not want to be classed with “them”. Agnes is not the only recorded case where a belief in being born intersex among transsexuals has been found to be caused by internalised transphobia. This is a common theme. As a side note, arguably, the portrayal of intersex in this case is also interphobic in viewing it as a mistake that needs to be fixed.
I’ve often considered this may be a reason for the claims of intersex status by many of the trans activists I have spoken to. In fact, it is a motivation that has been acknowledged by trans activists. It seems many feel that being intersex legitimises their access to procedures such as SRS and hormone treatments or their claims of feeling an incongruence with their sex. This is not a popular view in intersex activism circles, who tend to be against unnecessary medical interventions, particularly for children. It is, however, something intersex orgs have tackled before in the shape of “intersex brains” theory (I will blog about this one day, but in the meantime, you can hear some of my thoughts about it here).
This argument, that being intersex will make access to medical procedures easier, isn’t without other contradictory problems though. In the UK, anecdotal evidence suggests that access to cosmetic procedures for adults can be easier to access with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, rather than a diagnosis of a DSD. It would perhaps then be better to suggest that some claims are due to a perceived ease of access to medical procedures, rather than this being reality.
Another hypothesis for why trans people may claim to be intersex is “individuals may also be attracted to the novelty and perceived freakishness of being “intersex.” In some cases, this may take the form of, or be akin to, a sexual paraphilia”. This may not be as far fetched as it seems. Certainly, there are boards on trans peer support sites, such as Susan’s Place, which discuss the fetishization of “hermaphrodites”. Even in literature written by respected academics, such as this from Anne Fausto-Sterling (the woman behind the 1.7% stat) it’s clear to see the idea of intersex people being reduced to a fantasy and fetishized.
“Perhaps we will come to view such children as especially blessed or lucky. It is not so far-fetched to think that some can become the most desirable of all possible mates, able to pleasure their partners in a variety of ways.”
I must confess, in terms of most disturbing quotes ever, Fausto-Sterling is a strong contender there. Worrying views about children as sexual objects aside, I notice no thought is given to the intersex person themselves receiving any pleasure from sexual intercourse. They are merely positioned as the one who exists to please others.
In terms of modern, online intersex appropriation, it’s easy to see why this prevails. There are many links to the anime community in some trans circles. Hentai, the pornographic branch of anime, has a whole genre named ‘Futanari’. Futanari is the Japanese word for hermaphroditism, although it can also be used more broadly to mean androgyny. In hentai, however, it specifically describes characters with both primary sex characteristics, nowadays referring almost exclusively to characters who have an overall feminine body, but both female and male genitalia.
As I have written before, it is not actually possible for a person to have both sets of genitalia. In fact, as in the Yaniv case, it is often factors like this that make it obvious that the claim of being intersex is fictitious.  Many trans activists will make other such implausible claims, such as contradictory, multiple diagnoses, the existence of both sets of genitalia and/or gonads and even in extreme cases tales of self-impregnation.
In the case of Yaniv, there is one other factor that’s worth considering.
Trans activist Tracie O’Keefe wrote an article in 2010 encouraging trans people to identify as intersex as a way to “mess with the system”. O’Keefe makes it clear that the aim is to use intersex as a political label and a tool to confuse authorities by suggesting that binary classifications of male and female don’t work. This certainly seems to be the aim of the fabled sex spectrum. O’Keefe posits that this will make it easier for trans activists to push for legislative changes that give them access to the things they demand, such as changes in documentation along with the destruction of any evidence of former identities. Although not an administrative matter, it’s clear to see this at work in the Yaniv case, where spurious claims about “intersex genitalia” are accepted almost without question.
I’m going to wrap this up soon, but I think we also need to acknowledge why this is such an issue for the intersex/DSD community. Firstly, intersex discussion groups can quickly become dominated by trans activists claiming intersex status and wanting validation for this. This over-representation means that often it is these stories that make it into the mainstream media, with some trans activists becoming actual spokespeople for the intersex community, despite not having the experience or even an interest in the issues facing those with DSDs. This leads to the spreading of misinformation which unfortunately, due to its proliferation, can end up influencing intersex protocols. As it can be easy for trans activists to claim an invasion of privacy when asked to prove their credentials to speak on behalf of intersex people, it is difficult to challenge these claims. This, in turn, promotes the unhelpful and inaccurate ideas held by the pretending individual, or poseur, while intersex people who dare to contradict the narrative become further marginalised.
Whatever the many and varied reasons trans activists lay claim to intersex status, be it an inability to accept themselves for who they are, for perceived status or access to medical interventions, fetishistic curiosity, or just to create political confusion for the advancement of their agenda, it is not a claim that helps either group, nor is it a new phenomenon. Trans people need to be able to accept themselves and understand who they are without this conflation. Encouraging the mistaken belief that they are somehow intersex does nothing to help with this, all it does is shutdown discussions and muddy the waters. Intersex people deserve accurate information about their differences, not only to be available to them but also to fight social stigmas surrounding DSDs. And finally, both groups deserve their own voices and to talk about their own needs and reality without being political pawns in someone else’s game or sexual fantasy.
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Hello, my name is Madtheeha. I am using a basic speech synthesizer to help me talk to you all about my ideas and inspiration so that I can focus on dissecting this battery. You may ask me questions at the end, if you wish to. You are also free to come closer and take a look at what is inside this device. It is very simple. I will begin now.
This is a graph explaining my concept of how ritual and technology exists in a cyclic / reciprocal flow. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
My hypothesis is that art bridges the gap between ritual and technology.                                                                    Technology is inherently ritualistic (the way we approach, use, and understand technology mimics our use and approach of ritual practice) oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
browsing the internet via theiese black mirrors is akin to the ancient practice of divination through scryyng
even through similar catoptromantic devices like this one nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn .
In parallel, ritual practice is inherently a technology – for example (I’m speaking of us as a society and as a species) communing with god and the dead is achieved through the technology of prayer. aaararararararararararrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaarararararararararaaaarararararararararaaaarararararararararaaaarararararararararaaaarararararararararaaaarararararararararaaaarararararararararaaaarararararararararaaaarararararararararaaaarararararararararaaaarararararararararaaaarararararararararaaaarararararararararaaaarararararararararaaaararararararararara
My work and process often involves symbols that are based on the following binary classification system. In other words, this classifcation system aids my process of symbol-making. Examples of WARM | ANIMATE | WET technologies are drawing, clay, metalsmithing, writing, singing, bio-tech, communications, telematics, indigenous, and early technologies. Examples of DRY | INANIMATE | COLD technologies are cutting, engraving, processing, programming, machine-based, software, copying, broadcasting, western and recent technologies. iesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesiesies
The practice of artmaking encourages self-authoring and persona fluidity--this is important to me as a woman from a particular Muslim background that often left little room for personal development outside of a specific set of parameters. For me, the art object serves as a poetic and political technology of communication. ememememememememememememmemememememememememememememememememememmemememememememememmeememmememememememememememememmememememememememememememememe 

In my exploration of this interaction between ritual and technology, I use the concept of the black box as a starting point for artistic production. In technology and new media theory “the black box” is a term that describes the situation where a particular technology is mysterious to the user.
My attempts to open the black box of certain technologies, namely the battery, has developed into works that uncover the elegant physical reactions that generate electrical charge. In deeconstructing a cheap, factory-produced item I deconstruct the magical form, uncovering metal and lithiam electrolytes. I then re-cast the technology, using ritual symbolism, through battery weavings (another work in the Oracle Modem series) and ritual blood-letting. inginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginginging
Obtained | Retained [blood battery] requires my body to produce electricity.
I use tooo technologies to obtain enough blood to charge the work: a warm, ritual blood-letting practice known as hee jaama and a cold, medical removal process using patented Vaccutainer technology. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
The title of this piece references the extreme difficulties in obtaining blood from my own body—there is some incredible irony at work here regarding body politics.
And, I even see parallels to alternative energy politics and ecology.eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
One of my direct inspirations for the Blood Batteree comes from ancient Aztec sacrificial practices.
This is Lady Xoc – she is depicted here receiving a vision through her blood sacrifice. Ancient Aztec peoples used blood sacrifice as a way to appease the sun or to receive information about impending wars and agricultural concerns (among other things). This culture, like many others throughout history, have utilized blood sacrifice and blood letting as a technology to cure, catalyze, and atone. Lady Xoc is unique in that she is one of the few women in Aztec history who are reputed to have done so. Un surprisingly, historians believe that this technology was reserved for powerful men. menmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmenmen—
I see a poetic connection, however spurious, between blood sacrifice (for the sun and sun gods) and this property of blood that facilitates quantifiable energy/electricity. I choose this presentation – simply the voltage produced – to highlight this poetic coincidence—only the suggestion of energy measured. A black box recast, alchemical and bodily. eyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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ppl are afraid to talk abt the negative experiences of trans men or transmasc/male-aligned/etc ppl bc they think acknowledging those experiences must /necessarily/ conclude that trans women or transfem/female-aligned/etc ppl have male privilege. one does not necessarily lead to the other, and idk where ppl get that idea that it does. you can talk abt trans men + others getting catcalled or access to reproductive rights or whatever without concluding that trans women + others have male privilege.
I think it’s a warped idea that comes about from the fact that people want to work in binary options - it’s either one way or the opposite way. That’s not exactly the case. Privilege works by raising up a single group, and the privileged group will kick out everyone it doesn’t want in on whatever spurious reason they can dig up - there isn’t a rationale to it, just ‘this is Other and we don’t like it’. Bigotry has nothing to do with logic.
(For the record, though, putting ‘male-aligned’ in the same conceptual box as ‘transmasc’ and ‘female-aligned’ in the same as ‘transfem’ isn’t really accurate, since alignment doesn’t have the same relationship to someone’s gender assignment as transfem/transmasc do.)
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New detections of gravitational waves brings the number to 11 – so far
by David Blair
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Ripples in space-time caused by massive events such this artist rendition of a pair of merging neutron stars. Carl Knox, OzGrav, Author provided
Four new detections of gravitational waves have been announced at the Gravitational Waves Physics and Astronomy Workshop, at the University of Maryland in the United States.
This brings the total number of detections to 11, since the first back in 2015.
Ten are from binary black hole mergers and one from the merger of two neutron stars, which are the dense remains of stellar explosions. One black hole merger was extraordinarily distant, and the most powerful explosion ever observed in astronomy.
The latest news comes just a month after doubts were raised about the initial detection. In late October an article in New Scientist, headlined Exclusive: Grave doubts over LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves, raised the idea that it “might have been an illusion”.
So how confident are we that we are detecting gravitational waves, and not seeing an illusion?
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Artist’s conception shows two merging black holes. LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet)
Open to scrutiny
All good scientists understand that scrutiny and scepticism is the power of science. All theories and all knowledge are provisional, as science slowly homes in on our best understanding of the truth. There is no certainty, only probability and statistical significance.
Years ago the team searching for gravitational waves with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), determined the levels of statistical significance needed to make a claim of detection.
For each signal we determine the false alarm rate. This tells you how many years you would need to wait before you have an even chance of a random signal mimicking your real signal.
The weakest signal detected so far has a false alarm rate of one every five years, so still there is a chance that it could have been accidental.
Other signals are much stronger. For the three strongest signals detected so far you would have to wait from 1,000 times to 10 billion billion times the age of the universe for the signals to occur by chance.
Knowing what to listen out for
The detection of gravitational waves is a bit like acoustic ornithology.
Imagine you study birds and want to determine the population of birds in a forest. You know the calls of the various bird species.
When a bird call matches your predetermined call, you jump with excitement. Its loudness tells you how far away it is. If it was very faint against the background noise, you may be uncertain.
But you need to consider the lyre birds that mimic other species. How do you know that sound of a kookaburra isn’t actually made by a lyre bird? You have to be very rigorous before you can claim there is a kookaburra in the forest. Even then you will only be able to be confident if you make further detections.
In gravitational waves we use memorised sounds called templates. There is one unique sound for the merger of each possible combination of black hole masses and spins. Each template is worked out using Einstein’s theory of gravitational wave emission.
In the hunt for gravitational waves, we are searching for these rare sounds using two LIGO detectors in the US and a third detector, Virgo, in Italy.
To avoid missing signals or claiming false positives, the utmost rigour is needed to analyse the data. Huge teams look over the data, search for flaws, criticise each other, review computer codes and finally review proposed publications for accuracy. Separate teams use different methods of analysis, and finally compare results.
Next comes reproducibility – the same result recorded again and again. Reproducibility is a critical component of science.
The signals detected
Before LIGO made its first public announcement of gravitational waves, two more signals had been detected, each of them picked up in two detectors. This increased our confidence and told us that there is a population of colliding black holes out there, not just a single event that could be something spurious.
The first detected gravitational wave was astonishingly loud and it matched a pre-determined template. It was so good that LIGO spent many weeks trying to work out if it was possible for it to have been a prank, deliberately injected by a hacker.
While LIGO scientists eventually convinced themselves that the event was real, further discoveries greatly increased our confidence. In August 2017 a signal was detected by the two LIGO detectors and the Virgo detector in Italy.
On August 17 last year a completely different, but long predicted type of signal was observed from a coalescing pair of neutron stars, accompanied by the predicted burst of gamma rays and light.
The black hole mergers
Now the LIGO-Virgo collaboration has completed the analysis of all the data since September 2015.
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The ten black hole mergers.
For each signal we determine the mass of the two colliding black holes, the mass of the new black hole that they create, and rather roughly, the distance and the direction.
Each signal has been seen in two or three detectors almost simultaneously (they were separated by milliseconds).
Eight of the 20 initial black holes have masses between 30 and 40 Suns, six are in the 20s, three are in the teens and only two are as low as 7 to 8 Suns. Only one is near 50, the biggest pre-collision black hole yet seen.
These are the numbers that will help us work out where all these black holes were made, how they were made, and how many are out there. To answer these big questions we need many more signals.
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Graphic showing the masses of recently announced gravitational-wave detections and black holes and neutron stars. LIGO-Virgo / Frank Elavsky / Northwestern
The weakest of the new signals, GW170729, was detected on July 29, 2017. It was the collision of a black hole 50 times the mass of the Sun, with another 34 times the mass of the Sun.
This was by far the most distant event, having taken place, most likely, 5 billion years ago – before the birth of Earth and the Solar system 4.6 billion years ago. Despite the weak signal, it was the most powerful gravitational explosion discovered, so far.
But because the signal was weak, this is the detection with the false alarm rate of one every five years.
LIGO and Virgo are improving their sensitivity year by year, and will be finding many more events.
With planned new detectors we anticipate ten times more sensitivity. Then we expect to be detecting new signals about every five minutes.
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About The Author
David Blair is Emeritus Professor in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, OzGrav at the University of Western Australia
This article is republished from our content partners at The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. 
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Racism, at the individual level, can be seen as a predictive model whirring away in billions of human minds around the world. It is built from faulty, incomplete, or generalized data. Whether it comes from experience or hearsay, the data indicates that certain types of people have behaved badly. That generates a binary prediction that all people of that race will behave that same way. Needless to say, racists don’t spend a lot of time hunting down reliable data to train their twisted models. And once their model morphs into a belief, it becomes hardwired. It generates poisonous assumptions, yet rarely tests them, settling instead for data that seems to confirm and fortify them. Consequently, racism is the most slovenly of predictive models. It is powered by haphazard data gathering and spurious correlations, reinforced by institutional inequities, and polluted by confirmation bias. - Cathy O'Neil (at The Port of San Francisco) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5MT6dcAUhG8jkVfxiAbzQp5NaZPJ-VZY5miLI0/?igshid=ffy1oof2wlfm
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Lasso Regression On German credit dataset.
proc import datafile='/home/u40933503/my_courses/machine learning tutorials/german_credits.csv' replace out=work.lasso dbms=csv; ods graphics on;
proc surveyselect data=proc hpforest data=work.lasso out=trainset seed=115 samprate=0.7 method=srs outall;
proc glmselect data=traintest plots=all seed=113; partition ROLE=selected(train='1' test='0'); model creditability=account_balance duration prev_status_credit purpose credit_amount value_savings_stocks employment instalment marital_status guarantors duration_current_address assets age concurrent_credits apartment no_credits occupation no_dependents telephone foreign_worker/selection=lar(choose=cv stop=none) cvmethod=random(5); run;
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This lasso regression identify explanatory variables that best predict the response variable (creditability which is a binary response variable 0=good borrower/no default on payments and 1= bad borrower/default on payments). The dataset has 20 explanatory variables or predictors and the lasso regression has selected a subset of 13 predictors.
In the “LAR selection summary table’’ , account balance is highly associated with creditability. Duration of the loan and previous status of credit also follow as most associated variables with creditability. The variable in the ‘’LAR selection summary table’’ predictors are listed in their relative importance or degree of association to creditability in descending order from most important to least important.
Looking at the graph labeled ‘’Coefficient progression for credibility’’, account balance is positively associated with creditability based on the standardized coefficient. Duration of the loan is negatively associated with creditability.
The model has an adjusted R-squared of 20.48% which means the 13-variable lasso regression was able to explain 20.48% of the variability in creditability. The lasso regression does not provide statistics required to test the statistical significance of each coefficient in the selected model.
Some of the coefficients produce by the lasso regression are spurious or meaningless such as the credit amount coefficient is negative (-0.000010075) and for installment size is negative (-0.026525). 
A negative coefficient for credit suggests that borrowing a large amount of money is associated with low default risk with other predictors ceteris paribus. A negative coefficient for  installment size suggests that large installments are associated with low default risk with other predictors ceteris paribus. The two results from the lasso regression do not make economic sense.
The coefficient for credit amount is small almost equal to zero suggesting a low explanatory and a possibility of exclusion from the model.
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