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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 @MaddieM4 @Abstract_Mage_Annastasia i was about to add "yeah she's excellent"
@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.
@MaddieM4 @Abstract_Mage_Annastasia @davidgerard
Back in the late 2010s I was invited to submit for the Decentralised and Privacy room at FOSDEM. At the time I said no, because I didn't think a presentation that was mainly me ranting about the privacy violations in the world was useful.
Then I kinda leaned into it.
Which is what I mean by finding your voice. It's there. It's just learning to be comfortable.
Then I applied for LCA and Ubuntu Portugal in 2019 and it started from there.
