No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools
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@aparrish I've been watching her recent LLM work, along with the Teensy debacle, with a lot of sadness and frustration. But to be honest, the media lab (where I first knew of her work and met her while I was a student) does a terrible job of preparing people for a critical approach to technology. I got basically blacklisted for wanting to read critical and feminist STS while a student. So many of the problems of the lab can be traced to not learning these histories and theories.
I can't understand how many people still think it's okay to use Claude, even if trained on your own data, given the relationships between Anthropic and the military, not to mention its theft of dozens of my friends' writing. It's so frustrating.
@aparrish plus, I still don't know how people have resolved for themselves the open source licensing issue with LLMs. If the model is trained, in part, on (A)GPL code, shouldn't the generated code itself be licensed similarly? It would be just so appropriate if the outcome of all of this was everything being generated by LLMs is deemed to be (A)GPL licensed.
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Not every tool is good
One of my heatguns was recalled for fire risk
I sent it in
It was a bad tool
LLMs, Gemini included, are also bad toolsIf I had to double check my cake mix for poison every single time I used it I wouldn't use that cake mix
Or eat a cake made from itYou're failing to recognize WHY people are rejecting LLMs and things made with it
They're bad tools
If a robot vacuum cleaner does a good job but has a 1% chance of eating my cat it's not allowed in my house
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No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools
In 1925 a doctor said vacuum cleaners will make women lazy. In 2026 mastodon dudes said the same thing (and worse) about a woman engineer using a tool to make a CAD part.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/16/no-tools-for-you-a-century-of-men-policing-womens-tools/
@adafruit hey quick question if you asked limor to vacuum and she said she didn’t want to, would you tell her she’s being misogynistic against herself and better get the fuck to it or would you use some other bullshit manipulation play to make her think and do what you want her to
or do you just reserve that kind of crap for us?
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@aparrish plus, I still don't know how people have resolved for themselves the open source licensing issue with LLMs. If the model is trained, in part, on (A)GPL code, shouldn't the generated code itself be licensed similarly? It would be just so appropriate if the outcome of all of this was everything being generated by LLMs is deemed to be (A)GPL licensed.
@zeitkunst if nothing else, the prevalence of LLMs has been useful in how it reveals whose commitments are paper-thin when it comes to the idea of open culture and the commons as a way of enriching everyone (and not just the already wealthy)
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@aparrish plus, I still don't know how people have resolved for themselves the open source licensing issue with LLMs. If the model is trained, in part, on (A)GPL code, shouldn't the generated code itself be licensed similarly? It would be just so appropriate if the outcome of all of this was everything being generated by LLMs is deemed to be (A)GPL licensed.
@zeitkunst @aparrish even funnier, at the moment anything produced with an llm is public domain.
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No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools
In 1925 a doctor said vacuum cleaners will make women lazy. In 2026 mastodon dudes said the same thing (and worse) about a woman engineer using a tool to make a CAD part.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/16/no-tools-for-you-a-century-of-men-policing-womens-tools/
@adafruit ok, this blog post is embarassinng. a person being called bad for being a captain planet villain is wild. -
No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools
In 1925 a doctor said vacuum cleaners will make women lazy. In 2026 mastodon dudes said the same thing (and worse) about a woman engineer using a tool to make a CAD part.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/16/no-tools-for-you-a-century-of-men-policing-womens-tools/
@adafruit I can't speak for others, but to me the problem wasn't with the gender of whoever did the slop. Don't make this about something it isn't about.
People are royally fed up with the "AI EVERYWHERE" stance, no matter who does it.
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No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools
In 1925 a doctor said vacuum cleaners will make women lazy. In 2026 mastodon dudes said the same thing (and worse) about a woman engineer using a tool to make a CAD part.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/16/no-tools-for-you-a-century-of-men-policing-womens-tools/
@adafruit "When a man uses an LLM to generate boilerplate code, he’s a savvy early adopter, a start up founder, a guy ahead of the curve."
No, he's a plagiarizing piece of shit. -
@adafruit@fosstodon.org as a woman I am offended that you'd compare the actual bullshit our foremothers faced under sexism to people pushing back against AI, a "service" that's buggy, harmful, ecologically damaging, and being used as a tool in class warfare to push people out of their jobs, something that disproportionately happens to women and minorities first.
You should be ashamed of yourself.@deathkitten Check @adafruit blog, there are a lot of articles about using #LLM in electronics "design". If they are going to adopt LLMs, then there are no surprise that they are trying to whitewash it as much as possible
, using all available methods.When I was learning electronics at university, drawing such simple electronic schemas and footprints was a key to be able to do much more complex things with EDA. Outsourcing this mental work to Plagiarized Information Synthesis System is a literally: "you will learn nothing and be happy"
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No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools
In 1925 a doctor said vacuum cleaners will make women lazy. In 2026 mastodon dudes said the same thing (and worse) about a woman engineer using a tool to make a CAD part.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/16/no-tools-for-you-a-century-of-men-policing-womens-tools/
@adafruit 😬 yikes
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Look for recertified or reconditioned drives 🙂
@simonzerafa @magic_smoke Their prices will rise up too. I monitor used hardware prices and saw how used DDR5 memory prices in my region already became higher. The same will happen with HDDs too, I think.
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No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools
In 1925 a doctor said vacuum cleaners will make women lazy. In 2026 mastodon dudes said the same thing (and worse) about a woman engineer using a tool to make a CAD part.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/16/no-tools-for-you-a-century-of-men-policing-womens-tools/
@adafruit I will never, ever, buy a product of yours ever again.
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@magic_smoke @adafruit I am sitting next to 12x 22TB drives that have been running for 3 years now, all official refurbs from Amazon, not a single bad sector
Out of probably the ~30 drives I've purchased refurbished over the last 10 years I can only remember one that arrived in poor condition (click of death) and it was immediately replaced
Just don't buy them from shady sellers on eBay would be my recommendation.@feld @magic_smoke @adafruit none of this makes the status quo acceptable
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@feld @magic_smoke @adafruit none of this makes the status quo acceptable
@Linza @magic_smoke @adafruit what do you propose the solution is, some kind of "government controls the entire market for fairness"? That doesn't scale, has never worked in the history of mankind. It's just supply and demand. The market will balance this out in time, price discovery is working as it's supposed to. -
@Linza @magic_smoke @adafruit what do you propose the solution is, some kind of "government controls the entire market for fairness"? That doesn't scale, has never worked in the history of mankind. It's just supply and demand. The market will balance this out in time, price discovery is working as it's supposed to.
@feld @magic_smoke @adafruit nice straw man you got there, did you need me for this conversation?
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@feld @magic_smoke @adafruit nice straw man you got there, did you need me for this conversation?
@feld @magic_smoke @adafruit Have fun collapsing the biosphere with your neoliberal shit I guess lol
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@feld @magic_smoke @adafruit nice straw man you got there, did you need me for this conversation?
@Linza @magic_smoke @adafruit I think we've quickly established that your input is not needed in any conversation on this topic -
@Linza @magic_smoke @adafruit I think we've quickly established that your input is not needed in any conversation on this topic
@feld@friedcheese.us @magic_smoke @adafruit bless your heart
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No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools
In 1925 a doctor said vacuum cleaners will make women lazy. In 2026 mastodon dudes said the same thing (and worse) about a woman engineer using a tool to make a CAD part.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/16/no-tools-for-you-a-century-of-men-policing-womens-tools/
@adafruit I don't hate your shit because you are a woman. I just hate "AI" shit.
And suggesting anything else just because it fits into your pretty theory is just dishonest and disgusting."Oh no, someone criticised the tools I used! Must be because they are men!"
Disregarding somebody's opinion based solely on their (perceived) gender is actually sexist, you know? -
@feld @magic_smoke @adafruit Have fun collapsing the biosphere with your neoliberal shit I guess lol
@Linza @magic_smoke @adafruit "the government is killing us in the streets for exercising our rights, but we should give the government even more power over our lives" is one hell of a platform
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@ian thank you Ian! If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask.
And warning: their app catalog is pretty addictive 😅
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@liaizon I absolutely agree. I think the client-first development environment for ATProto makes this kind of work extremely emergent.
As @tsyesika said at FOSDEM in the Social Web Devroom, the ActivityPub social API ("C2S") is our equivalent to this programming interface. We need to get it kickstarted so we can build interesting social networking applications without having to build the server side, delivery, queuing, etc.
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@liw On the other hand, that's also reassuring, because the three big companies use SAP and are dependent on it. And conversely, SAP is dependent on them. No one's going to pull the plug on themselves. Because if the US corporations were to pull the plug on SAP in their data centers, then 90% of the top US companies would be left without an ERP system.
