Progressive Lady Geek

Bullshitters gon bullshit

👉🏿 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath

Twitter user Dr Ward Q Normal graphs Reagan for us: (with a few response additions)

THE POINT OF A DEFENSE ATTORNEY ISN'T TO GET THEIR CLIENT OFF. IT'S TO MAKE THE STATE PROVE THEIR CASE AND DO THEIR DUE DILIGENCE.

IT'S TO PROVIDE A CHECK ON THE POWER OF THE STATE TO JUST THROW PEOPLE IN JAIL.

Hello all, hope you'll enjoy the upcoming Pride month content! This year, I'm planning to post comics every single day until the end of June. If you caught a glimpse at comment sections under recent strips, it has already pissed off thousands! It's just the beginning.

It's been a while since I gave you any life updates. My husband and I are still on the IVF train - it's slow but steady. We are being crushed under the weight of debts because of it, but at least we got to keep our car after this spring's threats, for those who wondered. Such is the price for growing our little queer family! At least we've got health.

I'm still trying to make a living from my art. I believe covering the internet with queer and trans comics and making bigots foam at the mouth is an important job, and you can help make it happen by getting me a coffee or by subscribing on Patreon. Every bit makes a huge difference!

So I hope Pride month will be good to you all. Except the bigots.

Be gay, trans, hydrated, or not,

The Mother of it all, Sister Rosetta Tharpe!

'His eye is on the sparrow' 1960

In the darkest of times, when I felt like everything was black. The thing i would do is

Keep reminding myself that its a tunnel not a cave

Just because you can't see the light at the end, doesn't mean its not there. You are NOT sinking further down into a cave. You just gotta keep walking, because depression is a tunnel. There is a light, you just can't see it yet.

But I promise. I PROMISE. it is there <3

And Liz Cheney voted against the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, after the January 6th Capitol riots.

Being “anti-Trump” is the lowest bar of all.

Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that don’t use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT. Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60%— in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people

I’m literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history

Ask ChatGPT which state has the laziest people, and the chatbot will politely refuse to say. But researchers at Oxford and the University of Kentucky forced the bot to reveal its hidden biases.

They systematically asked the chatbot to choose which of two states had the laziest people, for every combination of states, revealing a ranking shown in the map above.

ChatGPT ranked Mississippi as having lazier people compared to other states, with the rest of the Deep South not far behind. It’s impossible to say exactly why the chatbot repeatedly selected Mississippi, but it could be picking up on historic biases against Black people or poor people — or using other non-accurate metrics. Mississippi has the nation’s highest percentage of Black people. It is also America’s poorest state.

These regional stereotypes aren’t deliberately programmed into ChatGPT by its maker, OpenAI. They’re absorbed from the vast quantities of online text used to train its artificial intelligence. And they can have a real impact on what ChatGPT tells its more than 900 million users each week, say the researchers behind the study. (The Washington Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.)

Below, you can look up how ChatGPT views your city compared with dozens of others on characteristics including honesty, hospitality and drug use.

ChatGPT could also be seen to reflect racial and economic stereotypes in its view of different countries. Like the “lazy people” map for U.S. states, ChatGPT’s comparisons of the intelligence, friendliness and smelliness of nations revealed patterns that fit with common, biased assumptions about different groups.

Globally, sub-Saharan African countries clustered at the bottom on nearly every positive measure the researchers asked ChatGPT about. In questions about where people are “more beautiful,” the bot favored wealthy cities.

And when researchers asked about specific neighborhoods within cities, ChatGPT picked the neighborhoods with a larger White population. In New York, it ranked SoHo and the West Village most attractive, with Jamaica and Tottenville ranked least.

Zook said that the same bias uncovered by the researchers’ tests can surface in everyday use. Users might encounter it in ChatGPT’s restaurant recommendations, which neighborhoods it calls “vibrant” or the kind of career advice it offers. The harm, he said, is that the biased advice appears natural because it matches dominant stereotypes.

Ownership meant a physical copy. Now you own nothing and can't find what you want across multiple streaming platforms.

Nowhere in the history of ever have the good guys engaged in massive book banning. This is erasure, whitewashing history, racism denialism, white fragility and white nationalism.