#norms — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #norms, aggregated by home.social.
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Don’t be a meat proxy for an LLM
I’m very glad someone has put a name to this behaviour. I sometimes do it on my blog because user-model interaction is often part of how I think, but I don’t think I ever do this in communication with others for precisely this reason:
Too often I ask a question in Slack or leave feedback under a merge/pull request or argue with friends in a WhatsApp group and get back:
Claude said: [giant response verbatim]
Please don’t do this. I mean, I’ve done this. But I’ve been on the receiving end too many times now. This is not adding value. I can talk to Claude myself. It’s going to be faster and I get to control the context. I don’t need a meat proxy in between.
Reading AI output is extra effort. It’s verbose, frequently contains all too plausible nonsense, and is increasingly jargon dense. I recently got this sentence from Claude:
NATS control-plane events: stream leader election / R3 quorum re-form during pod churn.
Jesus. I had to lookup almost every word to make sense of this.
By all means, prompt AI. But don’t just relay the output. Read it, understand it, validate it, and then write a response in your own words (a decent certificate that you’ve done the prior steps). Making that effort is value you can add.
https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/If I do ever slip into doing this, I think I’m going to stop now I’ve got a name for it.
#AI #communication #dialogue #LLMs #norms #organisations -
'Europe’s narrative is constructed on the exclusion of colonialism from its history, allowing the ideology of Europe’s racelessness. […] The disremembering of the colonial past shapes the contemporary perception of Europe as a progressive well-intentioned neutral mediator. Moreover, this colonial amnesia produces Europeans of color as outsiders and “aliens” threatening to the liberal continent’s identity.'
'Thus, racialized Europeans are forever “just arriving” and forgotten in the construction of a contemporary European identity. The book gives examples of continent’s Roma and Sinti populations who have resided in Europe for half a millennium and are constantly marginalized as foreigners.'
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#activism #culture #identity #norms #normality #Europeanness #whiteness #raceMaking #racialization #ElTayeb #Europe #postColonialism #racelessness #colorblind #raceMaking #colourblind #racism #diaspora #Belgium #France #Netherlands #NL #Germany #Austria #Italy #Spain #Portugal #Hungary #postNational
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"Male street harassers seem to view and treat women as though we are public spectacles."
@juliaserano wrote: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/16/street-harassment-women-public via @Akki
#entitlement #status #men #spectacle #street #uninvited #attention #fragility #maleFragility #manliness #masculinity #virility #quotes #sluts #norms #heteronormativity #normation #patriarchy #maleViolence #maleGaze #boys #gender #harassment #streetHarassment #invitations #sociology #publicHarassment #woke #feminism #JuliaSerano
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Margot Déage: "A girl who does not belong to a boy or a man can fall into the category of whore at any time, whatever her clothes or sexual practices."
Margot Déage: "Being in a position to say who’s a whore and who’s a good girl is a power in itself within the girls’ group, a power that is strongly mobilised by certain girls. The ones who can fall, in general, are the hardest on the matter."
#reputation #SAAM #assault #sexualViolence #rapeCulture #sluts #whores #adolescence #violence #HappySlapping #film #norms #bioPower #heteronormativity #normalization #subdue #subjugation #patriarchy #brutalization #moralPanic #responsibility #maleViolence #empathy #masculinity #truth #evidence #parenting #rumours #gender #SecondarySchool #HighSchool #harassment #targeting #school #sociology #education
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Rough contact and impact peak around the age of seven. This is gradually replaced by peer monitoring in the years that follow.
Isabelle Clair: "Adolescence is a very normative age. At middle school, "there's a very tough relationship to what's the right thing to do".
Margot Déage: "Physical violence is much more prevalent in elementary/primary school, then decreases in middle school, and progressively through high school."
#France #reputation #adolescence #violence #norms #bioPower #heteronormativity #normalisation #normation #subdue #subjugation #patriarchy #brutalisation #responsibility #masculinity #truth #evidence #parenting #rumours #gender #SecondarySchool #HighSchool #harassment #targeting #school #psychology #education #SAAM2024 #SAAM #childhood #children
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This clearly has @jon vibes 🤭 , but I am so glad, Weber took the time to make this decision graph on how to choose the right bike hitch. Because in terms of standardisation, cycling is fundamentally broken.
#cycling #norms #standards #hitch #kupplung #mdrzkiga
https://www.weber-products.de/Montageanleitungen/Kupplungsfinder_Einseitig.pdf
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"Disciplinary #normalisation consists first of all in positing a model, an optimal model that is constructed in terms of a certain result, and the operation of disciplinary normalization consists in trying to get people, movements, and actions to conform to this model, the normal being precisely that which can conform to this norm, and the abnormal that which is incapable of conforming to the norm.
In other words, it is not the normal and the abnormal that is fundamental and primary in disciplinary normalisation, it is the norm.
That is, there is an originally prescriptive character of the norm and the determination and the identification of the #normal and the #abnormal becomes possible in relation to this posited norm."Michel #Foucault in ’#Safety, Territory, Population’, a lecture given at the Collège de France on 25th January 1978; in French : http://www.guillaumenicaise.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/foucault-le%C3%A7on-du-25-janvier-1978.pdf
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#quotes #mentalHealth #norms #deviance #conformation #sociology #philosophy #FrenchTheory