Notices by Audrey MP [Astatide] (astatide@tech.lgbt)

I suppose it's time for a (re) #introduction, because my old one is no longer accurate.

Hi! I'm Audrey, a queer pan transfemme intersectional pro-labor researcher by training (enhanced sampling for computational biophysics), and an HPC engineer by trade. I love photography, cats, thinking about ways to use tech to make things better, and boosting marginalized voices. I hate all tech scams and blatant profiteering; I'm pretty anti-capitalist; I'm pro ML in theory but think most applications are anti-human and unethical. ACAB. I like to learn new things, especially from voices and perspectives I haven't gotten to interact with before.

@mmasnick @jeffbyrnes I really like this with one minor point: the idea that we’ve been running a content moderation experiment that has failed due to its merits and instead due to frankly awful adherence and enforcement of said moderation. Minority communities have been complaining for ages about the sparse, inconsistent nature of transphobic, sexist and racist content on numerous platforms and how despite numerous reports, blatantly bigoted content stays up (while said minorities are typically hit hard by the same policy). I think it’s letting them off the hook to blatantly claim “we tried ‘an experiment’ and it failed” when no control, no review, or protocol were deployed. They paid lip service, then called it a failure. That’s a joke, not an experiment.

@jeffbyrnes @mmasnick what we HAVE done is pretend that we won’t allow this type of speech while simultaneously rewarding it and banking on “cancel culture” to draw more impressions/readers/reviewers in. That’s a whole conversation unto itself; my point is only that his starting premise is flawed and should not have been yielded so easily, regardless of the fact that it’s pretty unimportant whether or not he’s right as to whether he’s the Nazi bartender. It’s just another attempt to deflect responsibility while profiting off said irresponsible enabling.