The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people. cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...

Open licenses and publicly available: - Models: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... - Code (and most data): doi.org/10.5281/zeno... - Data (all): doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

Our most depressing result ... We find, paradoxically, that there is a significant *negative* relationship between frequency of code contribution and an individual’s h-index That is, for an individual scientist the more they contribute to software development the smaller their h-index

'Code Contribution and Credit in Science' - new paper led by @evamaxfield.bsky.social w/ @isaacslaughter.bsky.social 1. We build a model that matches scientists (authors) with their GitHub accounts 2. We apply our model to ~140K paper-software repository pairs direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing. I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink. But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.

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hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

Does anyone want to go down a rabbit hole with me? My girlfriend put on Spotify's "Cozy Christmas Jazz" playlist the other night and we are now trying to figure out if one of the songs/artists featured in this playlist is AI generated?? The band is "Smooth Heisters"...

"Let’s be real — if a councilmember wants to kill a project, you can kill a project." www.theurbanist.org/2024/11/19/s...