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@taramcallister4 My advice would be to get something with a small case (so you can put them on / take them off mid run if necessary, and that is cheap enough to replace if you accidentally break/wash them. Then try to get the best sound quality possible. For me this normally means an older model

@charlesarthur @seanamulcahy this essay is absolutely not a recantation. and none of the critics of science ever said 'it's all made up'.

@farsidevirtual @seanamulcahy Hadn't been aware of that at all - recall the Sokal stuff very vaguely. I think the Bruno Latour essay sums up a realistic recantation of the "it's all made up" stance. bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/…

This judgment is absorbing, as they always are. These little bits stood out to me (SDA = Australia's Sex Discrimination Act), particularly that you have an Act whose principal word is never defined in it. Highlighted bit seemed odd. More from the judgment in the thread below.

@charlesarthur @seanamulcahy I'm not trying to be a pedant, but there are many legal definitions of sex just as there are many scientific ones. Both can serve very general and very specific purposes.

@farsidevirtual @seanamulcahy The legal definition of sex is more flexible than the biological one, because it serves a far more limited purpose.

@charlesarthur @seanamulcahy Cool. That doesn't go to the question of whether and how sex is mutable for the purposes of a debate about discrimination however.

@farsidevirtual @seanamulcahy It isn't fraught at all. We're confident sexual reproduction is a billion or so years old. We see it across multiple species. Humans aren't a special case in that regard.

@charlesarthur @seanamulcahy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_w…

@farsidevirtual @seanamulcahy I've no idea what you mean by "the science wars".

@charlesarthur @seanamulcahy Anyway, this is just the science wars all over again, only with trans women as the playing field this time

@charlesarthur @seanamulcahy Precisely. But this makes the appeal to an underlying (sexual) reality incredibly fraught. As for sex being well in understood in humans, it really depends on the context and for what purposes.

@charlesarthur @seanamulcahy Sex is also a word scientists attach to people. Differently across time, and even within and between scientific disciplines. It's really not that different from what courts do. The idea that scientists can access reality without mediation is doing a lot of work for you here.

@seanamulcahy My point about "what the court says" was that it can’t make biology change: it can’t alter reality. It can attach words to people, but the underlying truth remains. The court can say Tickle is a woman. But the case happened because that assertion is a legal fiction, not reality.

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@renatrigiorese Yes please

Postdoc bonanza at @AdmsCentre! Lots of projects focused on diversity, inclusivity, and authenticity in AI. Strongly encourage feminist STS, anticolonial, critical race, and critical data studies folks to apply. I had the most rewarding 3 years of my career in the centre✨

Hi friends, exciting announcement 🚨 The CfP for the 16th Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory is out EVERYWHERE AND NOWHERE The #DFLT17 will take place between the 21st and 22nd of November, 2024 @UniMelb @MelbLawSchool

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First Horizon reached out to say that after trialling the program, it decided not to adopt it. It was "tested, delayed based on feedback and the[n] ultimately not deployed." Either workers hated it enough for them to kill it, or backlash from all this bad PR did. Outrage works!

Last week, I read about one of the bleakest uses for gen AI I've seen yet: First Horizon Bank is rolling out a system to detect when a call center worker was on the brink of "losing it"—and play them an AI-made montage of family photos set to their favorite song to calm them down

@adrianweckler AI so useful so long as it literally reads every email and every message on every one of your apps to know everything about you all the time

This is the best example of Apple’s new AI in everyday life. This could honestly be a gamechanger. #wwdc24

Title of the new posthumous Latour essay just dropped

can anyone point me to key sound studies texts on sonic branding?