No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@simonzerafa @magic_smoke @adafruit I don't think she's looking for solutions. But also, a mere six months ago, we didn't need to dumpster dive for consumer tech that used to cost peanuts.

[markasspandi@shrimpnet.gej.pet]

@adafruit this is like the worst fucking response to this situation

[vincarsi@mastodon.social]

@theorangetheme @renedudfield @adafruit right, because a lot of people use a tool for frivolous things, that means there's no use case that could actually be valid or accommodating of disability.

[glassresistor@sfba.social]

@kholerik @adafruit what did stross do?

[0x6e6174@mastodon.catgirl.cloud]

@adafruit@fosstodon.org "people are mad at me for destroying natural resources and contributing to slopificatian because I'm a woman, not because I'm destroying natural resources and contributing to slopificatian!!!!" are you actually hillary clinton? are you? is that who you are? is there a brain in there or is there a miniature hillary clinton pulling levers?

grow up.

[markasspandi@shrimpnet.gej.pet]

@adafruit You (I mean Adafruit in general, not this account, but you ain't better) did not at all answer any criticism that you included yourself in this post.
This post is worse insult than anything those people have said, and I include "go fuck yourself" one as well.
No, this is NOT gender issue. It didn't matter if it was a woman, a man or anyone else. People are critical of LLMs for valid reasons. Men that use LLMs are criticized too, for the same reasons.
And you turning this into a gender issue, feels like a spit in the face.
As a woman, I feel more insulted by your stupid fucking comparision of a very serious issue which is gender discrimination (an issue which exists to this day, in very serious forms), to you getting couple of mean comments for a very valid reason.

[mawhrin@circumstances.run]

@adafruit tooting through and doubling down on arseholery always works.

[sammy@cherrykitten.gay]

@adafruit ah yes, ignoring all the women and nonbinary people who criticize your use of fascist software to make a smug point, go fuck yourself

[s0@cathode.church]

@adafruit lol get fuuuucked

[azuaron@cyberpunk.lol]

@mcc @adafruit@fosstodon.org Yeah, I dropped Adafruit when they hired that cop and wrote a puff piece about how cool it was that he used RaspberryPis to illegally surveil Muslims. Then their social media manager had an absolute meltdown when someone politely pointed out how messed up that was.

[hatzka@tech.lgbt]

@adafruit out of curiosity, Phillip (and yes, this post is credited to Phillip Torrone), is there a reason this toot doesn't actually name the "tool" she used?

[futuristicrobert@infosec.exchange]

@mcc @adafruit

oh not to mention the fact that Adafruit is a company and is using Mastodon as a bully pulpit against individuals.

Brands need to GTFO of Mastodon, we don't want brands, we don't want companies, we want people.

[deathkitten@firetribe.org]

@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.

[magic_smoke@blahaj.zone]

@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange @adafruit@fosstodon.org
I've been eyeing but its hard to pay brand new prices for something that's not unused.

Especially something as consumable as a hard drive.

[somebody@tech.lgbt]

@lea @adafruit Saw elsewhere that there was extensive drama with one of their top brass making a bunch of accounts to harass a trans woman on. If you're keen on looking into it go ahead, however I don't feel like digging through pig shit to find the posts and they've incriminated themselves as to which gang they're in enough here than now I don't really have to.

[sefr@beige.party]

@adafruit Cue the "look at all the ABUSE we're getting!" (Pearl clutch, gasping wrist across the forehead) "Looks like its time to close our Mastodon account and go someplace safer (whiter) where AI is welcome!"

[bright5park@kind.social]

@adafruit@fosstodon.org Y'all were trying to sell pork sausages at a vegan convention.
That's why people were mad at you.
It had nothing to do with the fact that the person trying to sell the pork sausages was a woman.

[tom_verbeure@mastodon.social]

@Azuaron @mcc FWIW: the Raspberry Pi company/foundation hired a cop, not Adafruit…

[feld@friedcheese.us]

@magic_smoke @adafruit I never buy new HDDs anyway, only refurbs. The new drives are always a ripoff.

[avi2022@masto.ai]

@Tock @adafruit https://masto.ai/@jpaskaruk@growers.social https://masto.ai/@kwayk42@sechtor.social
I'm an ally; tryin 2 undrstnd

Copyright/land consolidation/colonial charter companies (colonialism)/slave-based wealth - part of a broad shift to formal, state-backed property regimes & capital accumulation - were for owners/investors, not the public. See 1700s Statute of Ann & US Copyright

Why lean on ugly? Convenience?

I get existential threat from ai - see my pin

Can we get post-scarcity startrek future without #AI?

How?