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Resisting Anti-Trans Logic, part 2: #feminism, women and children.
An abridged adaptation #Trans Facts, from Resisting #Transphobia in Edinburgh, aimed at giving people the tools to recognise and correct misinformation when they come across it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C37_WwRh6sr/?igsh=MTdmcXZjenhuZ3cxaQ==

PANGeA: Procedural Artificial Narrative using Generative AI for Turn-Based Video Games
Steph Buongiorno, Lawrence Jake Klinkert, Tanishq Chawla, Zixin Zhuang, Corey Clark
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19721

PANGeA: Procedural Artificial Narrative using Generative AI for Turn-Based Video Games
This research introduces Procedural Artificial Narrative using Generative AI (PANGeA), a structured approach for leveraging large language models (LLMs), guided by a game designer's high-level criteria, to generate narrative content for turn-based role-playing video games (RPGs). Distinct from prior applications of LLMs used for video game design, PANGeA innovates by not only generating game level data (which includes, but is not limited to, setting, key items, and non-playable characters (NPCs…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11676 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

A Multi-Aspect Framework for Counter Narrative Evaluation using Large Language Models
Counter narratives - informed responses to hate speech contexts designed to refute hateful claims and de-escalate encounters - have emerged as an effective hate speech intervention strategy. While previous work has proposed automatic counter narrative generation methods to aid manual interventions, the evaluation of these approaches remains underdeveloped. Previous automatic metrics for counter narrative evaluation lack alignment with human judgment as they rely on superficial reference compari…

It's #TransDayOfVisibility today - which makes this a great day to read and/or listen to #Trans Facts, from Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh.
Cis allies in particular, I beg you to get the hang of gently correcting misinformed friends when they repeat common anti-trans myths!
https://rtie.org/trans-facts/

People seem to have really liked this post!
What do _you_ think?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fun-augmented-intelligence-winston-friendand-friend-gil-friend-wuj9c/?trackingId=qtyR…

"Sustainability"? Nah. What About a Business Narrative That Centers the Living World?
Andrew Winston recently offered a wonderful post asking ChatGPT for alternatives to "the core narrative or story that we're living today." Here's a snippet of what he wrote: Here are the 1-sentence versions, but the longer ones in my post are fascinating and worth a read.

FAKE ALERT: Ukraine will soon collapse along the entire front line: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/02/fake-alert-ukraine.html

Making plans for the fourth #WeirdPride Day, which is in just over a month, in the 4th of March.
Almost certainly a panel discussion in the UK evening, and maybe one later on for people in North America (I'm hoping someone else will organise that.
Trying to get an in-person event sorted in Edinburgh as well, something like an open mic afternoon with crafts - slightly hampered by myself and the two people who volunteered to help with it all being falling-over tired.
Anyone else feel like organising something?
https://weirdpride.day

The full Trans Facts resource is here. It refutes around twenty of the most common specious attack lines used to deny #trans people's human rights and access to healthcare.
The fact I can even write "twenty of the most common specious attack lines" says something grim about the state of the discourse around trans people. There are plenty more where these came from, alas.
https://rtie.org/trans-facts/

Neurodiversity, scotpol
The Scottish Government has spent about two years consulting on how to consult about the Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodivergence Bill the SNP said they'd introduce in their 2021 manifesto.
So HOW have they managed to come back with a consultation featuring a 190-page full consultation document, with a 35-page "short guide" - that's 35 pages of A4, mind?
Where the education section alone is roughly a half-hour read?
Where they felt the need to include a request to "Please USE THIS GUIDE - _here_ - on How to complete your online response"... and then forgot to actually link to the guide?
Where the page on completing a written out recorded response instructs people to "please complete the Respondent Information Form and send with your completed questionnaire" but links to neither of those documents?
...anyway, so I'll be live on the SEMA YouTube tomorrow at 12:30 trying to be as constructive and helpful as possible about all this.
https://www.youtube.com/@SEMA_Scot?si=ct_IwgEMAJGoSzNB

For those who take in spoken information better than written, there's a very nicely read audio version of Trans Facts on the Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh (RTiE) #SoundCloud
#trans #transDayOfVisibility #mythbusting
https://on.soundcloud.com/unR3n