the longer i think about yesterday the more bleak the situation feels. if this "progressive" trend of separating sex and gender on forms continues without reform of the data handling rules to prevent privacy breaches, a decade of work trying to fix my documentation is going to unravel

it finally dawned on me why i loathe progressives who keep insisting that "sex and gender are different things". it's their way of politely sayin "trans women are biologically male", and it's that exact smug mindset that allowed my doctor to forcibly out me as trans to total strangers yesterday

you simply have to admire the depth of The Guardians commitment to transphobia. an entire article on hormones and HRT, and absolutely zero mention of the demographic who relies entirely on HRT. because ew, trannies are gross, and progressives don't want to think about us

well it's the UK. so they'll probably appoint Alice Sullivan to make sure the census is as humiliating to trans people as humanly possible.

it fucking kills me that it took my 16 year old son literally 5 minutes to understand how the logical consequences of wanky progressive principles is administrative transphobia. and yet i cannot convince ostensible adults with phds to stop being fucking cunts about this

If you are a data person or a designer of administrative documents, especially in a medical context (and I know many of you are) NEVER EVER EVER MAKE BIRTH SEX A MANDATORY FIELD ON AN INTAKE FORM It is the moral equivalent of forcing gay men to write FAGGOT in boldface text on every medical record

"Thanks, on its way to CRAN."

anyway yes. i'm still alive. but too depressed and frightened to care about statistics or programming anymore

Bia Davou Untitled (Circuits), 1975

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Error in eval(x, envir = envir): object 'FAALSE' not found honestly seems like a language design error to me. #rstats

i'm still fixated on this. why is everyone pushing so hard for using these tools when the safety infrastructure is clearly inadequate and wouldn't hold up to scrutiny under even the most cursory audit? you can't let an agent delete mission critical files and then blame the human operator afterwards

once again, i will point out that there is a *reason* i do not use these things as a pharnacometric consultant working in drug development. tech companies are far too cavalier about these kinds of risks. i don't want these agents anywhere near my work machine www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I sincerely believe that the reason so many tech-centric people believe that AI actually works is that they only ever use it to do generic coding in python or some equally non-specialist work. They are *shit* at dealing with specialist code. Like. Vastly, dangerously wrong 75% of the time

There's still much more that can be done to use #datavis / graphic design ideas from Cheysson style. I've started on a ggCheysson #rstats pkg: friendly.github.io/ggCheysson/ Still a WIP, but includes @kennethfield.bsky.social fonts, ideas/patterns from @infowetrust.com

R version 4.6.0 "Because it was There" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber.

i just... need everything to slow down a little. the entire world has gone completely insane. worse, it is fractally insane: every tiny part of the world is *exactly* as batshit mental as the whole thing. i need it all to stop. i cannot cope with this

oh how i feel this. career advice (or life advice more generally) from neurotypicals is almost invariably useless to me

Rare sighting of a column chart taking a dip at Hove Beach. #dataviz

haunted #rstats artwork

one day i hope to remember what self-confidence feels like. siiiiiiiiiiigh

this system doesn't throw up minimalist pieces very often, but when it does... some of them really are lovely

good night

i made it unreliable again. feeling much better

Not to be a huge bitch but in my experience people who are able to go fully "fuck gender expectations" have a lifestyle where their support system shields them from having to interface with things like "having a job" or "being taken seriously in any situation"

new life policy. anyone who pops up on my feed with a screenshot of the mad king or his social media posts and doesn't use alt text is instantly blocked. if you don't use alt text i can't use keywords to filter that shit out, and i have enough anxiety in my life already

it's wild how quickly i lose interest with systems when they "just work" and require no further action from me as the artist. yay, after days of tinkering with the code i can now generate an arbitrary number of these things with only the seed as input, and it works every time. i am immediately bored

starting to like where this is going

Today is the anniversary of the Box-Cox power transform. #OTD 1964 George Box & David R Cox read their paper “An Analysis of Transformations” at the RSS meeting. It describes methods for reducing nonnormality of errors in a linear model. The paper began with their names then found the topic. 1/3

the 85th output of the 17th iteration of the 4th attempt at designing a system around an idea i nicked off another generative artist, and at last i don't hate it

i just want to cry

the world is depressing beyond my ability to describe. so, yeah, making art to distract myself from the horrors

learning a very brutal lesson, as i attempt to write a compositional mini language for a specific class of pharmacometric plots. no matter how small the scope, every composable plotting language eventually reinvents the core principles of ggplot2 😖

please please please do not use identity link with binary outcomes. logistic regression exists for a reason, and if you do lm() on a binary endpoint i guarantee you everything will go to shit the moment you try to use your model to guide actions in the real world

i can only assume the implication is that 51% of bluesky users are trans

bear colours

one of my favourite experiences in writing art code is when the code base is just complex enough that you can almost predict what it will produce, but not quite, leading to pieces that aren't exactly what you were expecting #rstats

i am endlessly fascinated at stories of people who use AI for intimate personal moments like flirting or sexting. it seems like such a terribly joyless way to live? i genuinely don't get it. what's the point of flirting if you're not even using your own words?

good morning

I'm a fucking delight, bitch.

This an excellent essay.

People really are awful about psychological research. If the result doesn't make sense they don't believe it. If the result does make sense they make fun of it as obvious. If the result is nuanced they don't read it. It's tiresome and annoying behaviour

please, i am begging you all. stop trying to make april 1 jokes. your clever tech joke sucks just as much as everyone else's. yes, yours too

the article is slightly more interesting than the headline. key finding is that men who prefer tradwives are motivated more by "hostile sexism" (open misogyny) than by "benevolent sexism" (covert misogyny). would be curious to know if they hate tradwives just as much as they hate other women though?

Maybe the best development on the internet in recent years is our collective acknowledgement that April Fools Day sucks assssss.

idk. if you're a journalist posting about a minority group getting their rights stripped away, and doing it in a way that is easily misinterpreted and causes distress to that minority, the thing to do is just say sorry, delete the original post, and then do a version that makes your intentions clear

this is so stupid. you simply cannot do behavioural research this way. the core question here is how humans act in this situation and at the risk of having to explain a methodological point so basic it should never have to be said, you need humans for that

oh ffs. its that day where we pretend visibility is somehow helpful or desirable for trans people. call me when we get a cis day of just-be-fucking-normal-about-us-for-once yeah?

If you ever want to understand why I, as someone whose writing is intensely personal even when it is technical, despises the LLM indistry with passionate intensity, this piece by Cat Valente is your answer. My contempt foe these vampires will never die catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-mone...

girl at the club asked me if this was a hate symbol