#data-transit

[karnalesbian]

she commit acts of intercourse on my erogeneous zones until i achieve sexual climax

[reasonsforhope]

People ask me sometimes how I'm so confident that we can beat climate change.

There are a lot of reasons, but here's a major one: it would take a really, really long time for Earth to genuinely become uninhabitable for humans.

Humans have, throughout history, carved out a living for themselves in some of the most harsh, uninhabitable corners of the world. The Arctic Circle. The Sahara. The peaks of the Himalayas. The densest, most tropical regions of the Amazon Rainforest. The Australian Outback. etc. etc.

Frankly, if there had been a land bridge to Antarctica, I'm pretty sure we would have been living there for thousands of years, too. And in fact, there are humans living in Antarctica now, albeit not permanently.

And now, we're not even facing down apocalypse, anymore. Here's a 2022 quote from the author of The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells, a leader on climate change and the furthest thing from a climate optimist:

"The most terrifying predictions [have been] made improbable by decarbonization and the most hopeful ones practically foreclosed by tragic delay. The window of possible climate futures is narrowing, and as a result, we are getting a clearer sense of what’s to come: a new world, full of disruption but also billions of people, well past climate normal and yet mercifully short of true climate apocalypse. Over the last several months, I’ve had dozens of conversations — with climate scientists and economists and policymakers, advocates and activists and novelists and philosophers — about that new world and the ways we might conceptualize it. Perhaps the most capacious and galvanizing account is one I heard from Kate Marvel of NASA, a lead chapter author on the fifth National Climate Assessment: “The world will be what we make it.”" -David Wallace-Wells for the New York Times, October 26, 2022

If we can adapt to some of the harshest climates on the planet - if we could adapt to them thousands of years ago, without any hint of modern technology - then I have every faith that we can adjust to the world that is coming.

What matters now is how fast we can change, because there is a wide, wide gap between "climate apocalypse" and "no harm done." We've already passed no harm done; the climate disasters are here, and they've been here. People have died from climate disasters already, especially in the Global South, and that will keep happening.

But as long as we stay alive - as long as we keep each other alive - we will have centuries to fix the effects of climate change, as much as we possibly can.

And looking at how far we've come in the past two decades alone - in the past five years alone - I genuinely think it is inevitable that we will overcome climate change.

So, we're going to survive climate change, as a species.

What matters now is making sure that every possible individual human survives climate change as well.

What matters now is cutting emissions and reinventing the world as quickly as we possibly can.

What matters now is saving every life and livelihood and way of life that we possibly can.

[stardatez3ro]

i just . data .lieutenant commander data .

LOOK AT HIM DUDE .WHY IS HE ETHEREAL . WHO ALLOWED HIM TO BE THAT PRETTY .

[neomedievalist]

finding it hard to articulate this but i think the exclusion and othering of trans women thats so rampant on this site stems from the like, 10 year old idea that tumblr is a site only mentally ill women use, and then that idea sort of shifted as everyone started transitioning and now the image of an average tumblr user is like. a nonbinary/transmasc person . and then everyone started hating everyone who wasnt in that in-group

[cognitivejustice]

Source

[couldtransitionhavesavedthem]

DATA from STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION

Gender identity: synthogender, deminonbinary

Why would transition save them?: No explanation given.

Mod addition: "keep in mind this is through dash osmosis because i've never seen star trek or any of it's sequels beyond three episodes of the original series. but data's general feeling of "out of place"-ness is a common nonbinary feeling, in addition to being because he's a robot (probably explaining the synthogender bc he's a synthetic human). even though he grows to bond with the people of the ship, he always internalizes himself and characterizes himself as "different", which he switches gradually from a sort of shame to a sort of pride. this is also incidentally a common queer experience especially with gender. star trek: the next generation fans, please tell me if i've gotten any of this data stuff wrong and please tell me any data nonbinary coded moments i've missed!"--mod @sunkern-plus

[couldtransitionsaveher]

MARCUS DAMON from DIGIMON: DATA SQUAD

JUSTIFICATION:

"i can see it with my third eye, also she just seems like she has a lot of issues to work through and i think realising she's a girl could be the big "ohhhh" moment she needs to finally sit down and figure things out" - Anonymous

Reminder: Submissions are always open! Submit here!

[charliejaneanders]

Yeah, no shit Data.

[butchgtow]

how are you shameless enough to claim to be a radical feminist while believing that in non-sexual contexts, coerced decisions should be treated as freely made choices, particularly in analytics?

"financial coercion? whatever, she made her choice. violent coercion? whatever, it was her choice.

"it was all her choice. the intentional limitations placed by either an individual, a set of individuals, or the system oppressing her have no place in consideration."

you aren't a feminist -- especially not a radical feminist. you refute fundamental feminist philosophy of coercion as nonconsent (with rape as the only exception). you deny materialism.

you're directly encouraging the sex data gap and its intended, ever-successful outcome of women's global economic exploitability with your statements in this very moment.

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anyway book recommendation because this user is a reactionary contrarian who loudly and proudly refuses to read it: Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez.

[sysig]

Incomplete exchange (Patreon)

[harrypotterfuryroad]

that part in the jenny nicholson star wars hotel video where she explains that people who were vocal about planning to go to the hotel got locked into a situation where they felt like they had to be really loud about how they enjoyed it even after it became apparent how hollow the whole thing was because they wanted to avoid the told-you-so's from everyone about wasting thousands of dollars

[mueritos]

received approval for my research into trans sex ed, just have to make very minor edits, but a comment from someone on the board was thinking about changing the title since I used the word “transsexual” in it. They said it could continue the same pathologization I seek to counter in my research.

I’m a bit troubled. I chose this word with intention as reclamation of the word has largely been because of how “dirty” it has become from decades of cis people using that term for us. The board member said using “transgender” would be better to not alienate people, but the term “transgender” was made with the intention to be a more respectable term than “transsexual”. Words can be inherently alienating, and even words based out of a need for inclusion can have their own connotations attached to them that reveal even more barriers. 

I chose transsexual for my title because while my research aims to include trans people who have not or chose not to transitioned, I believe the way I’ve seen “transsexual” being reclaimed now is by countering the idea of a linear transition. I believe anyone can call themselves a transsexual, because no single trans persons view of a transition is the same. Some of us are done at social transitions, some of us are not. Further, I know the word is used by older trans people as it is a term they are more comfortable with, but also I wanted to examine through the use of transsexual just how and what we medicalize about our transitions. Are pap smears, birth control, and access to HIV medication not as important to the transitioning journey as HRT and surgery?

Still, I want to examine if this word can truly be alienating, or at the least if we are not at a place where seeing a title like “Transsexual Sex Ed” incites the idea that the guide is only for medically transitioned trans people. I would love to know if non transitioned trans people feel alienated or included with the word “transsexual”, or do you not care? Would you feel alienated with the term being used within a research study, even if the study seeks to aim non transitioned trans people within the project?

These are all questions I’m thinking about since receiving this comment. I chose this word with intention and with the understanding that it carries a large weight, and Im not sure how I feel getting this comment from someone who is not trans. It is understandable, but I still feel troubled overall by the problem it poses. I also know this is ultimately my decision to change the title, and it being intentionally controversial was my intention as well. 

Let me know what yall think if yall have any thoughts!

[materialsscienceandengineering]

New candidate for universal memory is fast, low-power, stable and long-lasting

We are tasking our computers with processing ever-increasing amounts of data to speed up drug discovery, improve weather and climate predictions, train artificial intelligence, and much more. To keep up with this demand, we need faster, more energy-efficient computer memory than ever before. Researchers at Stanford have demonstrated that a new material may make phase-change memory—which relies on switching between high and low resistance states to create the ones and zeroes of computer data—an improved option for future AI and data-centric systems. Their scalable technology, as detailed in Nature Communications, is fast, low-power, stable, long-lasting, and can be fabricated at temperatures compatible with commercial manufacturing. "We are not just improving on a single metric, such as endurance or speed; we are improving several metrics simultaneously," said Eric Pop, the Pease-Ye Professor of Electrical Engineering and professor, by courtesy, of materials science and engineering at Stanford. "This is the most realistic, industry-friendly thing we've built in this sphere. I'd like to think of it as a step towards a universal memory."

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[andromedasummer]

eveyone clap for me im back at work (tentatively)

[ahrencmeptn]

I could only resist for so long.