mastodon 4.7.3Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. OS hacker. Cat wrangler. Shoe lover.
In #goodnews, I’ve started jumping in my new skates! It took about a year to break them in and get the fit just right but I did my first comfortable feeling waltz jumps today and it’s so much easier with skates that fit! I’m starting on salchows later this week! #figureskating
This is so correct. Men know what consent look like, they just don't care. Same in tech. Men know what harassment looks like, they just don't care enough to stop it.
After about a decade of working on kernel-bypass operating systems, I have a new research direction! I have been thinking for the last year about AI programming models, and some of my thoughts are here: https://www.irenezhang.net/blog/2026/10/06/am-model.html
So I went to an allergy specialist at UW medicine recently and in the most Asian twist of all time, HER parents don’t believe that allergies are real either.
Do you read books by women and from the perspective of women? I’ve always thought that himpathy (a disproportionate level of empathy for men) was due to men simply not being able to imagine themselves as women, while women have been trained their entire lives to put themselves in men’s shoes. Highly recommend this article if you want to learn more. https://sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/26-its-not-only-the-violence-women
RE: https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/116694096861121882
This is exactly the issue in academia and tech. It’s never going to change.
Pixel’s vet today was telling me how happy she is that they have solensia now. Before solensia, cats were just in chronic pain and being prescribed gabapentin but it isn’t too effective for arthritis pain so they’d still be achy. Me with my #fibromyalgia being treated with gabapentin thinking … yes I know exactly what that feels like .. and would I get better medical care if I was a very large cat??
