2026-04-18T05:50:52Z https://yabu.me Elisabeth M https://yabu.me/npub18amk0w5jppvah3z6mwtnmslktmjv0x3hete5d3ns35dprf5uxu5spx45l3 https://media.mas.to/accounts/avatars/109/293/135/531/595/390/original/f8944810be98f5ed.png https://media.mas.to/accounts/avatars/109/293/135/531/595/390/original/f8944810be98f5ed.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd4xqrzd2ykxe0u4djayccdjynxmvv5a6xxjwt6f69vnt84q4dwsqzyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjjcjpwyj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs88tydu4wmv5nzl5v9a5mmc0le454a3jnlmd2zh52safrak9jewqq2sdeat'>nevent1q…deat</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>you? Are you computer? 2026-02-11T20:44:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8ywxvsf6va2wspsdu7gz9eyradvzkn96qskjty60vz9y8ywqqm4qzyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjjjwts6n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxv7jp4q8mle9u0q4pj9as2t42nd802683ws2w8pa8cypmgjhcn2c8zgj8x'>nevent1q…gj8x</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>also an anthropologist! Trained by Franz Boas, the founder of American anthropology, who fought eugenics in the leadup to WW2 when it was considered science and common sense, worked with women before they had the vote, and worked with Black women like Hurston amid the Jim Crow era. As a folklorist, Hurston is one of my heroes. As a novelist too 2026-02-02T05:38:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrks0mkx60ux4um5g8n5j9u3pwp2wganp95kuxpfznl4ffjt9fjuczyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjjk577m4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswyrrnls9qfj44ela5f06te529ppwjduhyzke2gmh4h93fh3vdlvc640vsl'>nevent1q…0vsl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>why are they banning shapes?! 2026-01-22T19:40:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0kn7ya2jq0ql7ls55gkapk48s72gpamlffp9hg4ywlg2halg2m4qzyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjjeude68 Has anyone had laser eye surgery? How did it go? <br/>#pleaseBoost 2025-12-24T15:40:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszufalkqaqa4xskjjdflcalm0l2xxfkp0mzuxfm5w6yhqyn57aapgzyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjjj952me In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0fjwja73gcwgjnva6epw7q4hxy7f37e469a3h78wffufppg0wpssl44xcw'>nevent1q…4xcw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>and also with you 👋 2025-12-14T15:15:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2689ds873cu7uvmp5ctsqhp95ucj9zetcth9h9kl5vrqvmqed7lgzyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjjusfrt5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsym42m2m4unlc2m280zkqktdprwudtuvml0lzfa4qz7ufysf3y68ge44845'>nevent1q…4845</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>how do you do it? 2025-12-09T16:17:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqa4v4844gf2yk83l8de8vx4fdpwmjt3pndk0jntpm2xjludv36qqzyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjj9d56jg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgxv8wf7rdgn8r90e5kyxmp3gxkm9yfteg8k62r09ukjg04s4ccssta4jtp'>nevent1q…4jtp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>what&#39;s frustrating to me is that I&#39;ll remember my conclusions, and I&#39;ll know that they are extremely well founded, but I won&#39;t remember the details I need to explain to other people why I&#39;m certain or how much it matters. So people don&#39;t believe me when I say things. Unless I put in huge effort to memorize key points, and even then sometimes they don&#39;t stick! I often feel a bit like the Greek prophet Cassandra 2025-11-28T17:22:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfgyucuepvkmsx4fj680208nzzpkzk9zsxh4spce5ezpg2h33nlhqzyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjjtl59zw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswxjnju22q3ur35qjt3dt3drc90zf2627454gpmu3dyl8wt6h8yag3h54sw'>nevent1q…54sw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m like this too and I&#39;ve been thinking about it a lot lately. Sort of doubting my whole cognition. And the value of reading or watching things which I won&#39;t remember without taking notes. Is the value simply the experience of it in the moment? To what extent is it detrimental not to remember? Is something wrong with me? etc 2025-11-28T05:14:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9n3pta9vt0cw2gy0va3q5c6rzu7ndhwmk8mvkha6csynazw2tzdgzyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjjmwkj7u Hello fediverse, can anyone give me a technical deep dive on how the body uses iron? I have a friend with anemia whose iron &#34;storage&#34; is low but iron is high? Lotta specific terms floating around (ferritin, platelets), and the way the Internet summarizes it isn&#39;t answering questions about the actual mechanisms involved. Neither is her nurse practitioner. So she wants the deep-in-the-weeds geek explainer. <br/><br/>#pleaseBoost for reach! 2025-11-01T21:12:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgnpz07fagzw33qawcuqlwhx56n9wqn85x85ukxznunl99w9g7h3szyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjjt062vl Stephen Miller talking about waking the dragon with some big Viserys energy 2025-09-25T13:21:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspl3yusc70fdaa2vq9yq2l02j72thvkzk988ayvsylwzsa40lrunczyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjjuj5050 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdadaeqxe8a8y6psmcfpvs5q4jjx0vurft4n4yhr6qsd67knvzm3qnw2en6'>nevent1q…2en6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There&#39;s a guy in Portland, Oregon who rides around town on a unicycle while playing a bagpipe 2024-11-03T14:17:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvg2xhn2shzc6hmchputqu6z5sqlnfgameq0ak2wh8glakgahz3nqzyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjj57sed2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9cndlmp9ku6qyxn88z5ftmdng4eyef40a6h8xlxl9h48geh2645g06f5z3'>nevent1q…f5z3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Then we did a deep dive on how &#34;othering&#34; works and the many shapes it can take, within and beyond race. They were coming up with great examples! It&#39;s encouraging to me to see how receptive to these ideas they are<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub12wmaxgnz4hpdszccgp7aud58ggh2pa72lvezx45p3vhu7sye5wxs4apwfj" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>JustAFrog</span> (<span class="italic">npub12wm…pwfj</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub104lgq06jn9xx27hyzd040vkpz9u2l3xfqrqtf6gjmv5hjq6l7qws84ddda" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>B. A. Balackus</span> (<span class="italic">npub104l…ddda</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1e4zk4g2em55zyrurxy20kqy988eha5qnl2mk97r03qyjvjxrk48sy6xz2t" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>blackmastodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1e4z…xz2t</span>)</a></span> 2024-10-31T20:10:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9cndlmp9ku6qyxn88z5ftmdng4eyef40a6h8xlxl9h48geh2645gzyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjj754sur In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswwwjdcmgf2fm0rtn6ysf0xr5ve6ggvu8fnhuk6l6hjujuc0t8rastezmd6'>nevent1q…zmd6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We framed it with Gravlee&#39;s article &#34;How race becomes biology,&#34; which argues that on one hand race is a social construct with no genetic basis, but also, social constructs have biological impacts; ie race may be made up, but the consequences of racism are real. So if you want to understand people&#39;s experiences in society, you need to understand race, among other things<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub12wmaxgnz4hpdszccgp7aud58ggh2pa72lvezx45p3vhu7sye5wxs4apwfj" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>JustAFrog</span> (<span class="italic">npub12wm…pwfj</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub104lgq06jn9xx27hyzd040vkpz9u2l3xfqrqtf6gjmv5hjq6l7qws84ddda" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>B. A. Balackus</span> (<span class="italic">npub104l…ddda</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1e4zk4g2em55zyrurxy20kqy988eha5qnl2mk97r03qyjvjxrk48sy6xz2t" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>blackmastodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1e4z…xz2t</span>)</a></span> 2024-10-31T20:09:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsguscx2e6haaq9z3n92dh42awkz57x5x06twrlpkvxc678kphg42qzyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjj7mcqqs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8djylvvjh7fg2dm65kneny3qnl4erh37lwgp3r9klp3gj24tkajg68gce3'>nevent1q…gce3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I teach cultural anthropology to community college students. Last week we debunked the colorblind fallacy together in class; the students were into it!<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub12wmaxgnz4hpdszccgp7aud58ggh2pa72lvezx45p3vhu7sye5wxs4apwfj" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>JustAFrog</span> (<span class="italic">npub12wm…pwfj</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub104lgq06jn9xx27hyzd040vkpz9u2l3xfqrqtf6gjmv5hjq6l7qws84ddda" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>B. A. Balackus</span> (<span class="italic">npub104l…ddda</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1e4zk4g2em55zyrurxy20kqy988eha5qnl2mk97r03qyjvjxrk48sy6xz2t" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>blackmastodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1e4z…xz2t</span>)</a></span> 2024-10-31T14:20:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgxe4fq42h4hhkeed7tv5fevrtsd3rvedknchaf27uudvdmwpthfszyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjjlv3vfv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw9fvkaknp4agthvq6ggfraplv5kdf4umcvd7tctuccngees3tvac8uk4qv'>nevent1q…k4qv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>NEVER DO ANYTHING ANY TIME 2024-10-12T17:03:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs090f2p4zsz9cn86jdan3kfuelrmw0x7cq2sv9et2na8a902pn54szyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjjxcd9su In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy7xk6feagx0ruv3vk84l6hnmxe6d9228qf2hltgn9efkp9xyz0egpq2067'>nevent1q…2067</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Kinda plays into a gendered stereotype about ladies being untechnical; tech is for men. But some of the most tech critical people I know (including total opt-outs) are devs. True believer technophiles tend to be those who don&#39;t understand or misunderstand the tech<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Charlotte Walker</span> (<span class="italic">npub1vjw…7s9n</span>)</a></span> 2024-09-08T14:12:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy7xk6feagx0ruv3vk84l6hnmxe6d9228qf2hltgn9efkp9xyz0egzyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjjxgvxdl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrr0q8g06nzsnwd4z7fpfcymp8akuv5eatu67uuemk9lwem8hewzg8p7hnn'>nevent1q…7hnn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That headline is annoying: &#34;men are more likely to turn to tech&#34; makes it sound like women aren&#39;t using tech at all. I&#39;m a digital strategist, web builder/admin, and technical writer who doesn&#39;t use LLMs; am I someone who doesn&#39;t &#34;turn to tech&#34;? Or am I, like a lot of devs and CS people, uninterested in this particular tech because of its particular problems?<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1vjwdpx6j4uscm937zg08h4tsulkzcfydhscsm3dff63tp5u4yzcsv27s9n" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Charlotte Walker</span> (<span class="italic">npub1vjw…7s9n</span>)</a></span> 2024-09-08T14:01:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsygm2mj3l4gw8v7slw6ap2q5fnp8tltw9f98al9r6jtr36c2yueuqzyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjj4gzn9q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqfxaja2rvd85fcfnaru9fen4xfy79cjlfh6p9lzpaxdcpsca3ptg5p3ul0'>nevent1q…3ul0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve been looking for literature that references it specifically, if you know of any<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub10nd455ee427kjarw8uahn63mt4ynh32au4900y9pdufa2xp3asrqh2urdx" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Erik Uden 🚩</span> (<span class="italic">npub10nd…urdx</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1j9l3dmvxzf06rw202myfn8yjdw8rrmcyprwsj6qv3kea4vechk3ql7jvxt" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Technology Connections</span> (<span class="italic">npub1j9l…jvxt</span>)</a></span> 2024-09-03T05:33:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqny0tttqg4dj0garmjnvkjpvw7eja4yn6zu2t4vu2czez9f9zquqzyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjjw57n4j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp32jxnagd0ly47ypc2zg8zug7e0zxxm9unq5s35h52cjlqdgzkqc0jshu0'>nevent1q…shu0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>When you say the Sapir Whorf hypothesis has been disproven, what are you referring to? ie where in the literature is it rejected?<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub10nd455ee427kjarw8uahn63mt4ynh32au4900y9pdufa2xp3asrqh2urdx" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Erik Uden 🚩</span> (<span class="italic">npub10nd…urdx</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1j9l3dmvxzf06rw202myfn8yjdw8rrmcyprwsj6qv3kea4vechk3ql7jvxt" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Technology Connections</span> (<span class="italic">npub1j9l…jvxt</span>)</a></span> 2024-09-02T22:33:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz6kketzfmw65sr92h00lyc96us8549cmth56q7r2q7pc90gkyj2gzyqlhwea6jgy9nk7yttdew0wr7e0wf3u6xl90x3kxwzx35ydxnsmjj6cg3zk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgxpsyqs5u2e25x7j842466jzhtvxgx2xzw3fga6fqcgugnlkx0zsdxxw6l'>nevent1q…xw6l</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There&#39;s a book I&#39;ve got about the European sailor ballad tradition where women cross-dressed to save the day. Extremely popular vernacular plotline in the, what, 1700s<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1whsdqsh7xg9sugccqyyw57zrcltydy9h9kvnhgc2fy59uzcqgurqarvn0x" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Erotic Mythology 🌹</span> (<span class="italic">npub1whs…vn0x</span>)</a></span> 2024-08-07T14:24:53Z