“if you can accurately call it “scraping” then it’s always fair use.”

I think you make some compelling points overall, but fair use has always been more complex than this. The intent is taken into account when evaluating whether something is fair use, but so is the actual impact — “fair use” is a designation applied to the overall situation, not to any singular factors (so a stated purpose can’t be fair use)

This is super tangential, but I knew someone who had a miscarriage which caused a mental health crisis. Or perhaps more accurately, the crisis was caused by severe isolation and implicit stigma around her grief. She told me that after the crisis, she was surrounded by people who had experienced miscarriages too. She was baffled because this sure would have been helpful before the mental breakdown.

People are expected to be so strong that ultimately it just weakens us at the community and the individual level

Yeah, this is where I’m at. I love it when people are weird as hell, even if it’s not inkeeping with my own aesthetic preferences

I saw a paper a while back that argued that AI is being used as “moral crumple zones”. For example, an AI used for health insurance acts allows for the company to reject medically necessary procedures without employees incurring as much moral injury as part of that (even low level customer service reps are likely to find comfort in being able to defer to the system.). It’s an interesting concept that I’ve thought about a lot since I found it.

I have a friend whose cycle is consistently 28 days long, and she can predict it down to a few hour window. I think she’s a witch.

My periods are super irregular, and tracking is how I try to make sense of it. My last three periods were 2 months ago, 8 months ago and 9 months ago. It’s possible that this irregularity is an indicator of poor health, so my doctor advised me to track stuff and come back if it’s more than 6 months.

Many tracking apps also include the option for tracking how heavy the flow is. The copper coil/IUD often causes heavier flow and more period pains, but for some people, this settles down after a few months. Tracking can be a useful tool in evaluating whether you’re happy with a contraception method (excessive side effects may mean needing to try a different method, like the hormonal coil).

Also, it’s not uncommon for there to be some level of bleeding at times when someone isn’t on their period. Nothing much, just light spotting. I don’t think this is super widespread, but it’s also not super rare either. It can be linked to one’s contraception. Periods are annoying enough as it is, but at least they don’t last long. Irregular spotting may happen when you thought you were safe from bleeding, but some tracking can help spot patterns.

In terms of anticipating patterns and planning around stuff, that’s definitely a thing that people do. Sometimes it’s as trivial as not wearing nice underwear when you’re due to be starting your period. Sometimes it might involve scheduling a date or holiday to avoid overlapping with the period due date. I think perhaps some people who take certain varieties of the contraceptive pill can actually delay their period (I think it’s something like taking week 4 of the medication when you’re on week 3, or something like that). I have a friend whose only contraception method with her partner are condoms (due to health issues around all the long term methods like the coil), and she uses period tracking to ease anxiety around unexpected pregnancy.

Speaking of planning around one’s cycle, I am more likely to make ill-advised horny decisions when I’m ovulating (in a 28 day cycle, ovulation typically happens around 2 weeks after the period starts). I have heard that I’m not the only one who experiences this. It’s not a huge effect, but if I’m pondering whether to get off with someone, it can be useful to know if there are background factors affecting that decision.

In short, there are loads of reasons why someone might benefit from this data. These are far from exhaustive examples. Having things on a separate calendar can be useful if apps make it easier to track things like heaviness of flow. It’s also nice to not have this stuff on your regular calendar (which may be shared with other people).

I thought it was “power”. That’s probably wrong though.

There’s a curfew? Fucking hell.

Ugh, Andreeson is such a creep.

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That sounds pretty cool. I don’t know much about Piefed — would we still be able to access posts from Lemmy instances?

One of my favourite things is the one-paragraph short story “On Exactitude in Science”:

On Exactitude in Science Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions, translated by Andrew Hurley.

" …In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography."

Source: https://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/08/bblonder/phys120/docs/borges.pdf