I’m a systems librarian in an academic library. I moved over the Lemmy after Rexxit 2023. I’ve had an account on sdf.org since 2009 (under a different username), and so I chose this instance out of a sense of nostalgia. I do all sorts of fiber arts (knitting, cross stitch, sewing) and love dogs.

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  • I care! I was one of the 3 trans people in the fencing club and I really dislike being told there are so few “trans college athletes” that I was about 10% of the total (assuming the prevalence of trans college athletes has remained constant from 15 years ago to today).

    I don’t find it useful to quote statistics without recognizing their sources and limitations. It leads to inaccurate perceptions of reality.






  • I’d be shocked if there’s only 10 trans college athletes. My college fencing club had three I could name, 15 years ago. My current college has at least one.

    Now, out trans women who competed in NCAA sports, certainly a smaller set of people.

    Also, totes agree it’s ridiculous to care about (I don’t know how to call it) the “integrity” of college women’s sports more than something that is actually harming and killing kids.



  • Oh yeah, I get that there’s more than 2 reasons to be upset about AI scraping. I work in the academic library world and the vibe here is

    1. bots are rude
    2. AI is not a reliable source of facts

    We work with facts and information, and I have no expectation that my collection of facts is something to defend against replication.

    On the other hand, I’d be pissed AF if someone stole my research paper on 1800s family drama and reprinted it without attribution, or AI-hallucinated new pseudo-facts that were not in the source materials.

    Edit: my situation isn’t that of others and I totally get why artists and authors would be upset about AI bots stealing their work.