Posts by irene@discuss.systems
(DIR) Post #B0KN2mOZUK48xAKqy8 by irene@discuss.systems
2025-11-16T22:37:54Z
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Reminder to anyone possibly visiting soon, keep an eye on water glasses at my house because we have a fluffy cat that only drinks like this. #cats #catsofmastodon
(DIR) Post #B0M0NVQYEXE8Knm03s by irene@discuss.systems
2025-11-17T17:51:15Z
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I don't know why it's hitting me so hard today but the UW situation has sucked away so much of my willingness and energy to do research. I (stupidly) thought that it had not impacted my career and productivity but obviously it has cost me a lot. Now I'm left holding the bag supporting the remaining students as the university and their advisors have just abandoned them. I'm left to pick up the destroyed pieces of multiple women's careers and advising them with no credit. Obviously my emotional and mental labor helping them figure out how to salvage their lives and where to go afterwards is totally ignored. All of the happy technical research stuff that made me passionately join the OS research community just seems so pointless and futile in the face of this kind of harassment across the field.
(DIR) Post #B0M0NbuY7umuRZr2eW by irene@discuss.systems
2025-11-17T17:56:15Z
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A lot of it is that I have to try and do my job, being creative and working on technically complex projects, while cleaning up other people's harassment without credit AND fending off attacks to my career. I'm just so tired.
(DIR) Post #B0QdCLfT7XneOiRVwG by irene@discuss.systems
2025-11-19T17:16:55Z
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Somewhat overlooked in the Epstein emails are his communications with Larry Summers, former president of Harvard and still faculty there, about how to sleep with a woman that he was mentoring. They called her “peril” as in yellow peril because she’s Chinese. He writes that he commented on her clothes and asked her out to drinks but she declined. He writes: “She must be very confused or maybe wants to cut me off but wants professional connection a lot and so holds to it,” SO HE KNEW HIS BEHAVIOR WAS INAPPROPRIATE AND KEPT DOING IT ANYWAY. This is just all so typical of academia. Also these emails were exchanged in 2019 in case you were thinking that this was just behavior of the past.
(DIR) Post #B0QdCRNFuAnQ5xy3No by irene@discuss.systems
2025-11-19T17:18:34Z
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Some citations https://nypost.com/2025/11/18/us-news/meet-economist-keyu-jin-who-larry-summers-asked-jeffrey-epstein-advice-on-how-to-get-horizontal-with/
(DIR) Post #B0QdCRR9ffuoI3nASe by irene@discuss.systems
2025-11-19T17:28:49Z
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Obviously it’s triggering that the woman looks a little too close to me and is about my age. In fact we were probably at Harvard and MIT as undergrads around the same time. 🤮🤮🤮
(DIR) Post #B0QdCWmbnL2ys2rs5w by irene@discuss.systems
2025-11-19T17:19:04Z
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https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/17/summers-epstein-wing-man-woman-described-as-mentee/
(DIR) Post #B0QnV12z0lSBUGyuX2 by irene@discuss.systems
2025-11-20T08:30:05Z
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@ricci 💯
(DIR) Post #B0aFfX3ufao0uFjjFY by irene@discuss.systems
2025-11-24T21:58:04Z
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@ricci what about in the presence of a capybara?
(DIR) Post #B0gTIrx5Os0RLEOGtk by irene@discuss.systems
2025-11-27T21:59:10Z
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@ricci @steve if it’s still light after a Thanksgiving dinner you don’t live north enough.
(DIR) Post #B0khDEkrslhGJgiwJU by irene@discuss.systems
2025-11-29T22:53:54Z
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@ricci happy tuxedo cat day!
(DIR) Post #B0thmZMyygO6oI2SkS by irene@discuss.systems
2025-12-04T07:05:00Z
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The belly isn’t a trap. #cats #catsofmastodon
(DIR) Post #B0xGftb5SByPO54KkS by irene@discuss.systems
2025-12-06T00:27:46Z
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@ricci have you considered doing a CloudLab wrap up? How many hours you spent running experiments, the institution that uses cloud lab the most etc?
(DIR) Post #B0z04yEy19FW7h0sWO by irene@discuss.systems
2025-12-06T19:30:47Z
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“There’s often a sense that women in the tech world make a big deal out of small events. But the myriad ways in which they are told their presence is illegitimate, that tells them that they don’t belong, is a constant pressure pushing them towards leaving technology (and game journalism, and the public sphere). In particular, when women in technology also have public voices, as with Anita Sarkeesian or Brianna Wu or Kathy Sierra, the pressure can be — is often intended to be — crushing.” - I guess 2025 is the year that I found my voice. https://saturation.social/@debcha/115668796489388403
(DIR) Post #B0z0540Iab55zwCFUW by irene@discuss.systems
2025-12-06T19:40:24Z
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@debcha “I don’t think being a woman in technology is worth dying for, but I learned early that some men think it’s worth killing for.” - The scariest part of this is the lack of control and the vulnerability. I can choose to be or not be in tech but I can’t choose if I might happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. And while this is an extreme example, being in tech often feels like being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
(DIR) Post #B11aMhJFgqglUWgoEa by irene@discuss.systems
2025-12-07T23:38:48Z
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I’d like my car to last more than 5 years … but I guess a lot of people don’t? https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/old-teslas-falling-apart
(DIR) Post #B11aMjfIvpW6nV1Rsu by irene@discuss.systems
2025-12-07T23:48:33Z
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@nomdeb well yes, I’d also like to not die. I remember reading that stat, and the article noting that it’s impossible to tell if Teslas are just more deadly or their drivers are worse at driving. 😂
(DIR) Post #B1vnB35hKQOuIJdVFg by irene@discuss.systems
2026-01-04T05:13:06Z
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@jawnsy @dan we already have 5 cats living with us right now
(DIR) Post #B1xql3m2xFG315E9ce by irene@discuss.systems
2026-01-04T19:12:38Z
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Shout out to @dan @dev and @ricci for the thankless job of moderating. They are true allies, usually finding and banning harassers before I even see them. As it is Juno’s birthday, here is a video of her enjoying a pile of catnip.
(DIR) Post #B1xyQSywps6gkYx9O4 by irene@discuss.systems
2026-01-05T04:54:25Z
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Making some chicken soup today and because I’m extra, I’m cooking the beans, vegetables and chicken separately at different temperatures with the beans on stove, the chicken in the sous vide at 155. Then I’ll do the vegetables with the beans at 185 and add the chicken back in. #soup #soupmaking #soupposting