I have worked several fruit farms. Yes it's hard work. You do get used to it but of course it requires fitness /flexibility that is harder with age. But I've also worked in factories which was hard too.

Immigrants may work these jobs because, like non immigrants, they're desperate. You can find yourself working with people with serious qualifications for better jobs - because they're desperate.

"Taking our jobs" is just a trope.

Ddg:

Ran https://voteyesornoai.com/ Where of 175k people, 90% said No AI

Offers noai.duckduckgo.com, presumably to cater to this 90% who don't want it.

Has AI first features in main product. Does not advertise noai much.

So...

1. It's primary product goes against it's market research
2. It's pushing AI, not promoting the alternative
3. People keep promoting ddg for (2) despite (1)

Just seems weird.

Believing in a binary is ignoring factual reality. It would be like saying we shouldn't believe in carbon or oxygen in the universe because 99.8 percent of all elements are either hydrogen or helium.

love this!

I'll never buy an xps again. Last one needed pretty much everything replacing, and within 3 years dell stopped manufacturing the battery!!

$2k on a laptop that's a brick within 3 years?

I get really sick of rich people promising their latest product will mean 4/3/2 day working weeks, and when others parrot this nonsense I just despair.

Leaving aside the dispute over "AI" and it's actual effect on efficiency...

If efficiency savings were all that was needed we would already be there. There's been hundreds of such advances. But all that happens is the wealthy get more wealth. They will always find work for us in those "saved days", and will increase our costs until we have to work those days to survive.

Yes, this. I didn't really suffer dysphoria until realising I was trans. What I noticed was that I didn't fit socially with men, and because I belonged to that group, I felt alienated from women, esp as I for older (I'm 50), but historically women have always been my close friends. But since realising that some people are trans and that seems to include me, then I've realised how transition steps made me feel good. But then also came the Oh shit, I don't look like a woman, this is awful.

I'm still struggling to accept it.

https://www.sweethome3d.com/

I've used this before. It's FLOSS

I can't say how hrt will help you or not. I'm thinking it might help me one day but...

But I wanted to send you a hug, perhaps that sounds meaningless, sent in digital bytes, but I know it's helped me to hear that at times. You sound so down on yourself, are you sure you aren't depressed (I'm not a Dr)? Do you have access to a counsellor/therapist?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the mirror doesn't know shit! I tell myself this, anyway!

Of course, and by AI first they mean profit and fash first. Humanity, reason, democracy and accountability last.

Interesting, thanks!

Yes, I understand re biochemical vs gender, good to clarify though, thanks.

Wow thanks for that history, I had no idea that happened!

I'm not looking for advice on whether I'm trans, thanks, I know I am, but I'm just reading around the subject!

Going to go look up Alan Turing!

https://investor.forrester.com/news-releases/news-release-details/forrester-ai-led-job-disruption-will-escalate-while-fears-job

Started seeing a counsellor to help me process stuff. Feels more productive than calling Samaritans again, but it's good they are there, v grateful. Being genderfluid is tiring because one moment I know what I want, clear as day, the next I don't feel it.

Take radiology: there is some evidence that AI can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss. Look, I’ve got cancer. Thankfully, it’s very treatable, but I’ve got an interest in radiology being as reliable and accurate as possible.

Let’s say my hospital bought some AI radiology tools and told its radiologists: “Hey folks, here’s the deal. Today, you’re processing about 100 X-rays per day. From now on, we’re going to get an instantaneous second opinion from the AI, and if the AI thinks you’ve missed a tumor, we want you to go back and have another look, even if that means you’re only processing 98 X-rays per day. That’s fine, we just care about finding all those tumors.”

If that’s what they said, I’d be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market’s bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: “Look, you fire nine out of 10 of your radiologists, saving $20m a year. You give us $10m a year, and you net $10m a year, and the remaining radiologists’ job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed – and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it’s catastrophically wrong.

“And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist’s fault, because they are the ‘human in the loop’. It’s their signature on the diagnosis.”

Nb if you disable JavaScript the site loads fine and you can read article without the ads/giving your data away. Unlock origin has a button for this.

I agree with negligent! Using suspend to ram for extended periods, eg nightly or over weekend will kill your battery life.

Green

Thanks, and definitely welcome and gratefully received!

And 100% that hormones don't define gender!

analyses [of MRIs of more than 1,400 human brains from four datasets] of internal consistency reveal that brains with features that are consistently at one end of the "maleness-femaleness" continuum are rare.

Love this statement.💜

Yes of course it is. But thanks for the links, will read.

I'm not presenting anything absolute or probably new. Just a personal take on a correlation between where my gender is and how strongly I feel it, at the different points of my fluidity.