At least where I'm from, it's pretty well know that the education system is better suited to girls than boys, probably because it needs a reform
I didn't say it doesn't, clearly there's a problem when half the population is systematically favoured.
To paraphrase: women can get pregnant and can't work and it's the man's fault
Where the fuck did I say that it's the man's fault? It's a societal problem, doesn't mean it's anybody's fault. At least not an entire gender in general. Capitalism as a system, yeah, probably.
What I observe in society are a huge increase in the amount of advertising aimed at women with a feminist message because women are being programmed to flock to such messages
I'm the first to criticize corporate feminism (just like greenwashing and pride washing), but I suspect feminist messaging appeals to women because they are sick of the patriarchy, not because they are programmed by marketing agencies. The fuck are you on about.
That said, I think you're right that the messaging of companies trying to appear feminist in their communications while nevertheless usually being run almost exclusively by men is a huge part of the source material that produces the bias here. I'm not sure we disagree much in substance, but I suspect we come from different starting points in how we see gender dynamics in society.
At least where I'm from it's pretty well known that girls outperform boys in school, possibly because their brains develop slightly earlier in some ways useful to perform in a class room.
This could give women a head start and very well lead to them on average performing better in work life, until they are forced to choose between careers and families while they partners continue to advance their careers at full speed not worrying about being pregnant.
But that's a different discussion. We should avoid biases in hiring because biases suck and make for an unjust society. And we should stop pretending language models make intelligent considerations about anything.
What's fascinating here is that LLMs trained on the texts we produce create the opposite bias of what we observe in society, where men tend to get preferential treatment. My guess is that this is a consequence of inclusive language. In my writing, whenever women are under-represented, I make a point out of defaulting to she and her rather than he and him. I know others do the same. I imagine this could feed into LLMs. Whatever it is that causes this, it sure as fuck isn't anything actually intelligent.
European legal systems are largely built around the idea that courts are apolitical, and that judges make their decisions neutrally based on the word of the law and the facts of the case.
This is of course impossible, but some people—especially judges themselves—are afraid that the system would collapse if the public learned how political the work of courts really is. So when France started publishing all the judgments of their courts to the public, they also forbade the public from studying individual judges.
Of course, studying the performance of individual judges is criminalized in France, so we have very limited ability to know about their individual performance. :)
It's a huge lie that judges are neutral, but some argue it's a necessary lie.
Yeah, I don't think a lot of people are going to miss this instance, but it seems fundamentally different from lemmit.online and I don't think it should be defederated on the same basis. More in the spirit of making sure rules are somewhat universally applied than its practical implications. And who knows, maybe a huge Lululemon fan (?) is going to sign up to Lemmy.ca some day in the future - the fact that it does not have a lot of active users as of today seems as an arbitrary reason for defederation imho. :)
Somewhat off topic, I kinda love that Lululemon is one of the first fandoms to spin up their own instance. I would have expected Star Wars and Nintendo fans to create their own instance before fans of (or the company behind?) some seemingly random clothes company.
So this is an entire Lemmy instance dedicated exclusively to one specific brand of clothing, including a mirror of the associated Reddit community?
I guess it's nice that more normal/consumerist hobbies are also making their way here, not just programming and Star Trek.
I'm not sure the comparison to lemmit.online is fair. On lululemmy, only !redditmirror@lululemmy.com is a Reddit mirror. There's also !lululemon@lululemmy.com, though that community has no posts so far, and also a meta community.
Lululemmy appears to me to be more comparable to 50501.chat, which hosts one Reddit mirror (!mirror@50501.chat) but also a bunch of original communities. Blocking the individual mirrored communities seems to be a better option than defederating the entire instance in cases like these.
On PieFed, bot posts are hidden by default, so the only content I see in !mirror@50501.chat is whatever is posted there by humans. If Lemmy supports hiding bot posts I guess that's another potential solution here.
Which is a prettyanageable definition. It's a cliche that everything is political, but it's also somewhat true. Banning pictures from protests would be a weird move IMHO.
I kind of agree, but on the other hand it's quite a good snapshot. It really does capture a moment in history and the failure of a country, in all its blurredness.
If this was a photography community, I would be more reluctant. But it's an interesting pic.
Sure, but that doesn't take away from the fact that under this model, small artists with little money seem to have a strong incentive not to put their music up for sale, which will cost both them and Bandcamp potential profits.
Maybe they could offer fans to sponsor a membership for artists if they want to unlock premium features.
Fair enough. But musicians are not really "any type of venture".
Bandwagon is already taking on a risk by hosting music for free for listening. If they could find ways in which both them and the artists could profit from music published on the platform that lacks the commercial potential to justify a €10 subscription, this would be a win/win. Considering that it seems they are already hosting the music for free.
We're outsourcing thinking to a bullshit generator controlled by mostly American mega-corporations who have repeatedly demonstrated that they want to do us harm, burning through scarce resources and rendering creative humans robbed and unemployed in the process.
Pretty disappointing stuff, especially concerning the potential for joystick drift and the gluing of the battery. If they haven't fixed drift I think I have no choice but to skip this generation.
And yeah, it really does not take much research online to learn about gsconnect.
I don't understand the hardware support part, but I also don't understand "peripheral software that runs with many keyboards and mice". If I had to install software to use my keyboard I would riot. Maybe I'm just too primitive.
I didn't say it doesn't, clearly there's a problem when half the population is systematically favoured.
Where the fuck did I say that it's the man's fault? It's a societal problem, doesn't mean it's anybody's fault. At least not an entire gender in general. Capitalism as a system, yeah, probably.
I'm the first to criticize corporate feminism (just like greenwashing and pride washing), but I suspect feminist messaging appeals to women because they are sick of the patriarchy, not because they are programmed by marketing agencies. The fuck are you on about.
That said, I think you're right that the messaging of companies trying to appear feminist in their communications while nevertheless usually being run almost exclusively by men is a huge part of the source material that produces the bias here. I'm not sure we disagree much in substance, but I suspect we come from different starting points in how we see gender dynamics in society.