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A "ban me" sandwich is when you Just Ask Questions about women's sports in between two posts about how revolutionary Claude Fable is.
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@MaddieM4 so its just not me who gets a very anti-women vibe from ai-bro's
@Abstract_Mage_Annastasia Oh, definitely not just you. If you don't follow @onepict yet, I highly recommend you do - she's the single clearest-thinking voice on this topic in my feed, with a strong emphasis on sociological principles that can be invisible to people with tech backgrounds, though she's in great company with people like @davidgerard as well.
Really though, it doesn't take a financially leveraged datacenter's worth of rented cognition to look around at all the stuff happening in the AI ecosystem - the nonconsensual porn (that's sometimes also CSAM), the hiring bias being accountability-sunk via ATS software, or the way the U.S. President uses AI image generators heavily to push a fascist agenda - and say about that stuff, "hey wait a fuckin' minute, here!"
@MaddieM4 @Abstract_Mage_Annastasia @davidgerard Coming from you Maddie that means a lot.
@onepict @Abstract_Mage_Annastasia @davidgerard I could have been twice as complimentary and still as honest (arguably moreso!), but I figured for people who haven't read your stuff for themselves yet, I should save a little powder and aim for credibility and brevity. You're one of *the* people I think of, when it comes to fighting the good fight in 2026, or even knowing what the heck the good fight even is - something I can't say for nearly as many influential voices in tech as I would have hoped for a few years ago.
@MaddieM4 @Abstract_Mage_Annastasia @davidgerard
I think there are others like me and you in tech. Folks are a little shy and haven't found their voices yet. Sometimes folks need a rest first as well. Our industry does seem to enable burnout.
I mean it took me a while, I'm not far off fifty.
I was really impressed with your analysis of SFCs policy and what you post online.
@onepict @Abstract_Mage_Annastasia @davidgerard Oh my gosh, thank you! That's big coming from you!
I think with the coup (and it is a coup) of our labor market and information economy happening *so fast,* a lot of people are just... reeling. And in an industry that often under-emphasizes the ability to communicate, and many of the people affected just trying to hold onto the jobs they have, and that very real burnout that just delivers a sweeping blunt force hit to the cognitive function as a whole, there's this vacuum (in a power vacuum type of sense) for meaning and explanation. Ultimately, filling that vacuum is a collective project that'll end up mixing together a lot of people's contributed observations. But it's kind of a privilege to be one of the pioneer organisms, to have the freedom to be a starting point for the rest of the ecology to rebuild itself. At least, that's how I'm choosing to see being sick, broke, and having too much time on my hands 😂
@MaddieM4 @Abstract_Mage_Annastasia @davidgerard With being sick and broke we're at the sharp edges of society. We still have something to lose, but I think it gives a clarity when you're not in the group that benefits from the status quo.
My Grandfather helped the British Underground in France until he Nazis got him. The interesting thing with resistance is that not everyone feels they can resist. But not all resistance was sabotage. Sometimes it was shelter or information gathering.
