No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools
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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 tooting through and doubling down on arseholery always works.
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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 ah yes, ignoring all the women and nonbinary people who criticize your use of fascist software to make a smug point, go fuck yourself
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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 lol get fuuuucked
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@adafruit Using fake feminism and a bunch of invalid comparisons to defend a technology that men are more likely to use than women ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.06556 ) and which use consolidates all power and money into the hands of a few billionares (all men).
No. No collaboration with LLMs, no credibility for LLM defenders, no fascist AI future. And no more Adafruit orders from me
@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.
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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 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?
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@adafruit Using fake feminism and a bunch of invalid comparisons to defend a technology that men are more likely to use than women ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.06556 ) and which use consolidates all power and money into the hands of a few billionares (all men).
No. No collaboration with LLMs, no credibility for LLM defenders, no fascist AI future. And no more Adafruit orders from me
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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@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.
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Look for recertified or reconditioned drives 🙂
@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange @adafruit@fosstodon.org
I've been eyeing but its hard to pay brand new prices for something that's not unused.
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@adafruit@fosstodon.org jesus fucking christ i thought adafruit was chill
@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.
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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 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!"
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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@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. -
@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.
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@adafruit@fosstodon.org Shit like this is why I can't upgrade my NAS this year. The machine which stores the VM where my local git server lives, and the pool which contains the repos themselves.
Its why replacing broken parts cost more than buying brand new hardware did two years ago.
Why so many of our fellow open source developers are getting absolutely bombarded by useless pull requests.
AI companies are the reason women like me are gatekept from the tools they need to create and share their creations.
https://mashable.com/article/ai-hard-drive-hdd-shortages-western-digital-sold-out
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/@magic_smoke @adafruit I never buy new HDDs anyway, only refurbs. The new drives are always a ripoff. -
@adafruit Like RaspberryPi, Adafruit is leaving my favorites list for shopping sites.
Holy hell did this miss the mark. Millions of women's works are slurped up by AI everyday and regurgitated at will by an unthinking LLM engine. Recast as a "thinking machine's result" with no renumeration to female artists, authors, and creators. This couldn't be a more masculine way to rob women of their life's work and agency. Even if given for free or under Creative Commons, stripping a project from it's authorhood when a woman made it should be appalling enough.
Please reconsider this position.
@Tock @adafruit https://masto.ai/@jpaskaruk@growers.social https://masto.ai/@kwayk42@sechtor.social
I'm an ally; tryin 2 undrstndCopyright/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?
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Inps, parlare con te è un’esperienza
Una (lenta) conversazione surreale che ho avuto:
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This seems to be a commodity spam operation, but investigators believe the attackers are exploiting SS7 👀
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Like that's what music was then
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humans evolved to only get a few dozen guestbook signatures over their entire lives
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@evan The sound when they took off his helmet…😞
