People want to do things. Most of work can't be measured and can't be seen, you can't actually reward or punish people for the amount of work they do, you can only reward of punish people for how flashy and normative they make it look, which is a whole separate set of work.
October 3, 2026 at 7:14 AM
People want to do things. Most of work can't be measured and can't be seen, you can't actually reward or punish people for the amount of work they do, you can only reward of punish people for how flashy and normative they make it look, which is a whole separate set of work.
but why? that’s literally just a statement about what happens when you multiply numbers. you don’t multiply numbers to produce normative judgments, just like you don’t solder paragraphs to produce a verb.
October 3, 2026 at 6:26 AM
but why? that’s literally just a statement about what happens when you multiply numbers. you don’t multiply numbers to produce normative judgments, just like you don’t solder paragraphs to produce a verb.
Algorithms embed choices about data, priorities and acceptable risks. When they affect healthcare, employment or social security, people deserve meaningful explanations, a practical right to challenge decisions and effective remedies.
Who holds digital power accountable?
Digitalization has become a constitutive layer of modern society. Digital platforms, cloud services, algorithms, artificial intelligence, data centers and communication networks shape economic activity, public services, knowledge, political participation and social interaction. Major technology companies consequently exercise economic, technological, normative and epistemic power: they establish rules, control essential infrastructure, moderate public communication and influence access to information, opportunities and services. Network effects, data concentration, vertical integration and dependence on closed ecosystems reinforce this power, often without corresponding democratic legitimacy or effective public accountability…
vitalehmoors.wordpress.com
October 3, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Algorithms embed choices about data, priorities and acceptable risks. When they affect healthcare, employment or social security, people deserve meaningful explanations, a practical right to challenge decisions and effective remedies.
was this allowed at Gillette because it was seen as descriptive and not normative?
Country singer Zach Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” shirt at his Gillette Stadium show in Massachusetts.
October 3, 2026 at 3:56 AM
was this allowed at Gillette because it was seen as descriptive and not normative?
True enough, no argument, but we are doing everybody a disservice by commodifying higher ed instead of just agreeing it is a normative good and paying for it (this last obvs not directed at you)
October 3, 2026 at 2:20 AM
True enough, no argument, but we are doing everybody a disservice by commodifying higher ed instead of just agreeing it is a normative good and paying for it (this last obvs not directed at you)
Trying to fire up the idiots by suggesting the black and yellow rings aren't visible in the paralympic games because of 'melano-functional normative' discrimination' at IOC... 🤣
October 3, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Trying to fire up the idiots by suggesting the black and yellow rings aren't visible in the paralympic games because of 'melano-functional normative' discrimination' at IOC... 🤣
even then, there’s a strong argument that it’s less a delusion than a normative belief of a subculture-like phenomenon (the anti-AI subculture.) delusions are defined as being fairly unique and non-normative to any significant subculture
October 3, 2026 at 1:15 AM
even then, there’s a strong argument that it’s less a delusion than a normative belief of a subculture-like phenomenon (the anti-AI subculture.) delusions are defined as being fairly unique and non-normative to any significant subculture
I am using the gender normative terms but all survivors/victims and anyone standing up against the patriarchy bullshit of men not be held accountable are included. It will take all of us to demand change
October 3, 2026 at 12:26 AM
I am using the gender normative terms but all survivors/victims and anyone standing up against the patriarchy bullshit of men not be held accountable are included. It will take all of us to demand change
A new label-free method called GenGait uses a Transformer autoencoder trained on 150 adults' normative gait data to detect joint-level anomalies and generate corrected kinematic sequences without requiring disease…
#AI #DeepLearning #GaitAnalysis #Biomechanics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01997
#AI #DeepLearning #GaitAnalysis #Biomechanics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01997
October 3, 2026 at 12:01 AM
A new label-free method called GenGait uses a Transformer autoencoder trained on 150 adults' normative gait data to detect joint-level anomalies and generate corrected kinematic sequences without requiring disease…
#AI #DeepLearning #GaitAnalysis #Biomechanics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01997
#AI #DeepLearning #GaitAnalysis #Biomechanics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01997
You can make normative statements about stuff like this like you think it would be good if they said that but also please grow up
October 2, 2026 at 11:50 PM
You can make normative statements about stuff like this like you think it would be good if they said that but also please grow up
what's interesting is he only objects to the normative parts of the claim, he only objects to the idea that these things being true imply any responsibility
October 2, 2026 at 11:46 PM
what's interesting is he only objects to the normative parts of the claim, he only objects to the idea that these things being true imply any responsibility
It's an insane normative claim disguised as an even more insane descriptive claim
October 2, 2026 at 11:18 PM
It's an insane normative claim disguised as an even more insane descriptive claim
tangential but this is exactly why I'm happy to see the growth of 'faiths' in broadly left-of-liberal spaces, occult and normative, esoteric and exoteric
thinking to hard about the immaterial seems to help people plan for futures beyond themselves
thinking to hard about the immaterial seems to help people plan for futures beyond themselves
Greek proverb: society grows great when old (wo)men plant the trees whose shade they will never sit in.
October 2, 2026 at 8:41 PM
tangential but this is exactly why I'm happy to see the growth of 'faiths' in broadly left-of-liberal spaces, occult and normative, esoteric and exoteric
thinking to hard about the immaterial seems to help people plan for futures beyond themselves
thinking to hard about the immaterial seems to help people plan for futures beyond themselves
... Être trop soucieux du premier cas conduirait vraisemblablement à falsifier sans le savoir les faits sélectionnés afin d'aboutir à un point déterminé."
Il m'a pas tellement l'air de vouloir faire une théorie normative là
Il m'a pas tellement l'air de vouloir faire une théorie normative là
October 2, 2026 at 8:27 PM
... Être trop soucieux du premier cas conduirait vraisemblablement à falsifier sans le savoir les faits sélectionnés afin d'aboutir à un point déterminé."
Il m'a pas tellement l'air de vouloir faire une théorie normative là
Il m'a pas tellement l'air de vouloir faire une théorie normative là
Si c'est une théorie normative, il y a en effet pas de contradiction, mais il écrit quand même dans le chapitre 1 : "Mais tout dépend du point de départ que nous choisissons et de la question de savoir si ce choix est destiné à établir ce que l'État devrait être, ou ce qu'il est. ...
October 2, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Si c'est une théorie normative, il y a en effet pas de contradiction, mais il écrit quand même dans le chapitre 1 : "Mais tout dépend du point de départ que nous choisissons et de la question de savoir si ce choix est destiné à établir ce que l'État devrait être, ou ce qu'il est. ...
C'est une théorie normative de l'Etat démocratique, mais il décrit un certain mode de fonctionnement du mouvement progressiste au début du siècle dernier, lorsque des mobilisations civiques parvenaient à équiper l'Etat de nouvelles branches pour prendre en charge des problèmes publics inédits.
October 2, 2026 at 8:18 PM
C'est une théorie normative de l'Etat démocratique, mais il décrit un certain mode de fonctionnement du mouvement progressiste au début du siècle dernier, lorsque des mobilisations civiques parvenaient à équiper l'Etat de nouvelles branches pour prendre en charge des problèmes publics inédits.
… and mundane strategies both to promote shame for non-normative populations and to deny them state, federal, and juridical supports because they are deemed morally incompetent to their own citizenship. This is the heterosexuality I repudiate.”
― Lauren Berlant, in "The Queen of America"
― Lauren Berlant, in "The Queen of America"
October 2, 2026 at 8:15 PM
… and mundane strategies both to promote shame for non-normative populations and to deny them state, federal, and juridical supports because they are deemed morally incompetent to their own citizenship. This is the heterosexuality I repudiate.”
― Lauren Berlant, in "The Queen of America"
― Lauren Berlant, in "The Queen of America"
I always feel like a fake gay during spooky month
Not only is my birthday in October
But I have just so many negative memories and associations with Halloween
This queer time to "express yourself!" Just never fit with me
Always seemed to me like a socially normative game I couldn't play.
:/
Not only is my birthday in October
But I have just so many negative memories and associations with Halloween
This queer time to "express yourself!" Just never fit with me
Always seemed to me like a socially normative game I couldn't play.
:/
October 2, 2026 at 8:04 PM
I always feel like a fake gay during spooky month
Not only is my birthday in October
But I have just so many negative memories and associations with Halloween
This queer time to "express yourself!" Just never fit with me
Always seemed to me like a socially normative game I couldn't play.
:/
Not only is my birthday in October
But I have just so many negative memories and associations with Halloween
This queer time to "express yourself!" Just never fit with me
Always seemed to me like a socially normative game I couldn't play.
:/
Zugegeben, ich habe keine Ahnung was er sonst so vertritt - aber bei dem Laden wundere ich mich über jede einzelne normative Übereinstimmung mit meinen Werten
October 2, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Zugegeben, ich habe keine Ahnung was er sonst so vertritt - aber bei dem Laden wundere ich mich über jede einzelne normative Übereinstimmung mit meinen Werten
We propose a practice turn in democracy studies that shifts attention from predefined normative models to the ethnographic reconstruction of how democracy is actually enacted.
October 2, 2026 at 7:47 PM
We propose a practice turn in democracy studies that shifts attention from predefined normative models to the ethnographic reconstruction of how democracy is actually enacted.
I feel like this is a thing that happens when minorities/Outsiders™️ embrace their opposition to the expectations of normative culture but then just... live there. It becomes memes, and the memes become their own rigid stereotypes. this is not actual diversity, just more boxes
idk who needs to hear this but *believe it or not* sometimes trans women are short and trans men are tall
its almost like we dont all come in some stereotypical size and shape. crazy. wild, even
its almost like we dont all come in some stereotypical size and shape. crazy. wild, even
October 2, 2026 at 6:45 PM
I feel like this is a thing that happens when minorities/Outsiders™️ embrace their opposition to the expectations of normative culture but then just... live there. It becomes memes, and the memes become their own rigid stereotypes. this is not actual diversity, just more boxes
the folks in uniform do not have a say in the jus ad bellum question (frankly we do not want them to as a normative matter), and once that decision has been made humanitarian concerns always have and always will be balanced against military necessity
October 2, 2026 at 6:00 PM
the folks in uniform do not have a say in the jus ad bellum question (frankly we do not want them to as a normative matter), and once that decision has been made humanitarian concerns always have and always will be balanced against military necessity
We live in a 1 line normative society
October 2, 2026 at 5:56 PM
We live in a 1 line normative society
they were always pretending when it comes to “race neutrality” and “colorblindness” as normative goals
These bigots like to talk about assimilation because it sounds like they're scoring people on their behavior rather than their genes. But when people are behaving exactly like their ideal of all-American sports-lovin' too-big-pastel-shirt wearin' bros, it still doesn't count.
October 2, 2026 at 5:40 PM
they were always pretending when it comes to “race neutrality” and “colorblindness” as normative goals
On a more normative note, im really pleased with how my pings are coming along. A few didn't adjust so well, but got a chance to try leaf pullings to propagate which is neat.
October 2, 2026 at 5:26 PM
On a more normative note, im really pleased with how my pings are coming along. A few didn't adjust so well, but got a chance to try leaf pullings to propagate which is neat.