Via Austin Kocher:

#USCIS just sent out an email announcing that it only recognizes "two sexes - male & female" & generally only sex assigned at birth.

The insatiable hunger to feed #LLMs and #AI is parasitically draining the commons and public internet. Bandwidth costs are spiking as crawlers take data for training and information. For Wikipedia, the lack of attribution means no visitors, no donors, just cost. The #ethics of AI are failing here.

I saw Tim Karr on bluesky suggest that AIs should pay fees or a tax (should that be tariffs?) into a fund that supports public content. Services like Cloudflare and Fastly that defend against bots are evolving for crawlers. In #identity, the implications for #AgenticAI, #AI, and #NHI are vast.

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/

Transgender activist and TED Resident Samy Nour Younes shares the remarkable, centuries-old history of the trans community.

https://www.ted.com/talks/samy_nour_younes_a_short_history_of_trans_people_s_long_fight_for_equality #TED #Transgenderl #LGBTQ #History #TransHistory #Identity #Equality

Today's poem:

No Second Troy
- by William Butler Yeats

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49772/no-second-troy

“So on this #TransDayOfVisibility, I see you — the person behind the governmental erasure and deafening public silence. I see your complexity, your resilience, your #humanity that extends far beyond your #gender #identity. And I promise to keep fighting for a world where being seen doesn't come with a side of existential dread.

Because one day, visibility won't be an act of #courage. It will just be #life.”

https://www.readtpa.com/p/navigating-trans-day-of-visibility

"The boys laughed and, as the teacher removed one of them from the class, other students laughed. It wasn’t the note that stayed with my daughter. It was the laughter."

Aaron Rabinowitz writes about #tattoos, #signs, #identity, and #survival: https://longreads.com/2025/03/27/tattoos-signs-history-antisemitism/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Nouveau

Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/nouveau/

What identity do we truly want? That of an isolated country or that of a stronger, more united European community?

#eu #europeanunion #europe #politics #economy #society #identity #humanrights #peace #defenddemocracy

https://officinaprogetti.org/en/divided-and-vulnerable-europes-radical-right-and-sovereignists/

Educating myself on becoming a person with a disability. #amyloidosis #disability #identity #inclusion #invisibility open.substack.com/pub/recently...

Educating myself on becoming a...

In this new Longreads essay, Aaron Rabinowitz writes about survival, identity, and the inked and invisible scars that history leaves behind.

https://longreads.com/2025/03/27/tattoos-signs-history-antisemitism/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Krzysztof Grzybacz’s large-scale oil paintings invoke tenderness and curiosity.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/krzysztof-grzybacz-floral-compositions/

"Dry-erase ink is not similar to tattoo ink, but it is almost identical to ink from a permanent marker. And if you leave it on a surface for long enough, especially a porous surface, it will remain. The brain is a porous surface. Memory is a porous surface."

A new essay by Aaron Rabinowitz: https://longreads.com/2025/03/27/tattoos-signs-history-antisemitism/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

This page is Queer Owned. I identify with Queer. I am non-binary, aegosexual, and panromantic.

These are my identities. Counselor. Writer. Autistic. Kinkster. Polyamorous. This is who I am.

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#LGBTQ related #Wikipedia article created 1 hour ago

Pride Nights

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_Nights
Martin Jones of the Seattle Kraken wears a rainbow-themed jersey during a Pride Night game in 2023

https://www.europesays.com/1944016/ Goldman Sachs’ Marco Argenti Said Companies Must Embed Culture Into AI #AI #AIAgent #ArtificialIntelligence #BusinessInsider #CompanyCulture #Cybersecurity #GoldmanSachs #HumanWorker #identity #LastYear #LeadershipPrinciple #lens #MarcoArgenti #Organization #TechIndustry #Workforce #workplace

Archaeoethnologica: Death, Memory & Identity at Bracara Augusta - Thesis / Morte, memória e identidade em Bracara Augusta - Tese

+INFO https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/03/morte-memoria-e-identidade-em-bracara.html