A Banh Mi is a fresh and savory sandwich from the most brilliant culinary minds in Vietnam.
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.
@MaddieM4 @Abstract_Mage_Annastasia @davidgerard
Everyone has the potential to see the parallels in our cultural landscape with the power imbalances that tech is enabling.
It needs to be more than one voice, because no matter what the AI bro's think and want, no one voice, no one solution is acceptable.
That's the way that Fascism and White Supremacists think. Because they think they should steer.
Which I don't accept. I've too many generations of noisy angry women behind me.
