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 this post is genuinely embarrassing as hell I'm sorry. Signed, a woman
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Wow. First, thank you, @adafruit , for all you do for the #STEAM community and those of us who just want to tinker, learn, and create.
It looks to me like you had an idea and used AI tools to do some of the leg work to get it done. And that you checked the work before “shipping it”. That is a perfectly legitimate use of AI.
It also sounds like you were tinkering and learning about the tools as you went, too. That is the spirit of creativity.
Keep up the good work!
@inaction_figure @adafruit cool fucking alt adafruit
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> Looks like its time to close our Mastodon account and go someplace safer (whiter)
Wow, racist much?
@avi_2022 there was no racism in this reply, only sarcasm.
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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 Well, I know who I'm not buying components from again. This is really disgusting and weird LLM apologia that completely misunderstands the actual struggle of disrespect and abuse that women go through in labour.
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@adafruit amusingly though: @cstross blocked me a couple years ago, because he was (if I recall correctly, can't be arsed to dig up the toot but it's back there somewhere) either boosting or else posting AI slop images and laughing at how bad they were. I had been an avid follower, but I expressed my surprise that he, an author no less, would be playing with the plagiarism machine in public.
As much as I tend to agree with the mob that using this planet killer was a terrible idea that you should be ashamed about, rather than what you're doing right here, Stross seems like he's mostly concerned with building up some sort of "profile" on here, and does not like to have his hypocrisy pointed out.
I think there are going to be some incredible strides made in education with this tech, but not until these psychopaths are devoured by angry street mobs and we start using it judiciously and without murdering towns and communities.
People in America have brown tap water so you could avoid work of which you are perfectly capable. You didn't need the help. There's no justifying it. Brown tap water.
@jpaskaruk stross doesn't need to build a profile; he has a profile high and large enough, that he blocks drive-by admonishments and aggressive replies to third parties just to keep his feed readable. this is not new.
(and before you ask, i was blocked by him because of the latter; there's no need to imagine nefarious reasons for his actions.)
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@lgsp recuperali. Io avevo trovato un libro sui pirati in un bidone.
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@futurebird the first Minecraft server I saw was done in PHP
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Allegro con brie
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La leghista bongiorno riscrive il ddl stupri e fa sparire il termine ‘consenso’. mobilitazioni in tutta italia
@anarchia
Mobilitazioni in tutta Italia domenica 15 febbraio contro il disegno di legge sul reato di violenza sessuale, snaturato dalla leghista e presidente della commissione Giustizia Giulia Bongiorno. La riformulazione
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Hey!
I'm looking for some simple to understand and impressive examples of fun things teens might want to do with PHP.
Ideally interactive things their friends might want to try on a local intranet server.
PHP mixes with HTML in a really fun way, and I remember doing some neat tricks with it... but I'm very rusty.
What are the cutest things you've ever seen done with PHP?
(We will get to the issues with security later. Fun first.)
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non è facile capire come si salva la democrazia
non lo sanno gli espertiqui ci sono considerazioni che consigliano di evitare di lasciare campo libero alla tecnocrazia
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#libri nel cassonetto della carta... Tristezza..
