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@fosstodon.org quit pinkwashing slop you shitlibs
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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 do you understand than token and fake feminism is worse than simply being serenaded into shoving LLM everywhere ?
How many women are up there profiting of the AI bubble ? Hard mode, if they only are CEO and shareholder it doesn't count.
Absolutely nobody in Silicon Valley (decision makers) try to liberate women. Faking it in a blog post is bad propaganda on your part adafruit -
@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/
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@adafruit@fosstodon.org jesus fucking christ i thought adafruit was chill
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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 yeah I’m a queer woman and this is baloney, y’all
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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 was almost certainly written by AI. No thinking person with a functioning brain could possibly have written this nonsense.
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@adafruit@fosstodon.org Have you lost your fucking minds?
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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/
I'm a woman in science, and I have ordered stuff from Adafruit before. But knowing you're using AI to design it DOES make me less likely to order from you in the future. Not because "women shouldn't use tools," but because AI is not a trustworthy tool.
Tell me you built a house with a glue gun instead of a nail gun, and I won't want to buy the house. Nothing to do with the gender of the person holding the glue gun.
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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 Weird hill to die on, but you do you.
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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 the lengths people go to to defend fascist American slop machines, wow
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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 is as wrongheaded a post as i can imagine, not least because the author seems to be unaware of decades of feminist critique of how commercial tools aimed at women homemakers in the 20th century were often marketed in exploitative ways and did not end up fulfilling their promise of efficiency. critique of AI has always been rooted in feminist thought, and many prominent AI critics are women, some of whom have lost jobs and faced harassment for publicly discussing the harms of AI
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I'm a woman in science, and I have ordered stuff from Adafruit before. But knowing you're using AI to design it DOES make me less likely to order from you in the future. Not because "women shouldn't use tools," but because AI is not a trustworthy tool.
Tell me you built a house with a glue gun instead of a nail gun, and I won't want to buy the house. Nothing to do with the gender of the person holding the glue gun.
@marymessall will try to reply to some of the replyguys and more today... for this specifically, we publish everything as open source, document it, and share it under open licenses. you will not see this from all other companies that do what we do. you can ask them if they use any tools like autorouter, or CUDA, or OpenCV, or if they use any LLM... they will not say. totally up to the customer to choose. we are showing all our work in the open, and guys piling on is part of the experience for us
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@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.I had to hear you snap back before I realised adafruit was just protecting corporate AI. Wow.
Thanks deathkitten, I know what to expect from that account now. Corporate bullshit bathed in whatever "washing" they can paint it with.
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@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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@adafruit this is as wrongheaded a post as i can imagine, not least because the author seems to be unaware of decades of feminist critique of how commercial tools aimed at women homemakers in the 20th century were often marketed in exploitative ways and did not end up fulfilling their promise of efficiency. critique of AI has always been rooted in feminist thought, and many prominent AI critics are women, some of whom have lost jobs and faced harassment for publicly discussing the harms of AI
@adafruit i have been an adafruit fan for many many years and regularly recommend adafruit boards to students and colleagues. but this post (which honestly reads like something you'd find on the heritage foundation's web page), combined with the knowledge that adafruit is now regularly using unreliable technical tools for their boards and firmware(!!), has finally flipped my mental switch from "these are good folks" to "don't order from them"
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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 hows that boot taste
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@paulywill @adafruit we aren't fucking with @ladyada, we're fucking with the creepy stalker harasser guy who is alleged to have written this article
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@marymessall will try to reply to some of the replyguys and more today... for this specifically, we publish everything as open source, document it, and share it under open licenses. you will not see this from all other companies that do what we do. you can ask them if they use any tools like autorouter, or CUDA, or OpenCV, or if they use any LLM... they will not say. totally up to the customer to choose. we are showing all our work in the open, and guys piling on is part of the experience for us
@marymessall @adafruit You conflated criticism of AI with misogyny. Of course you're gonna get piled on - that was, at best, an obviously stupid thing to say, trivialising actual misogyny. Although most of the "guys piling on" seem to be women, going by the replies I see here
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In addition to work I'm doing trying to improve interop between threadiverse apps, I do try to help by providing DevOps style support for those looking to integrate AP.
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