Abolish ICE! aftiej 🗽

@aftiej.bsky.social

Salty broad. Childless sociopath. Mavis's mom. 🐾 she/her

if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

not having my greatest day. started w a migraine, then my car wouldn’t start. towed it to the shop, probably the alternator. bathroom window appointment was fast but pricey, it’s $1,640 to replace. oh and i broke my 38-week meditation streak. it’s okay. i’m okay. 😔

I think it’s pretty interesting that we are continuously told that men’s role in society is to be “protectors,” and yet there were 57 young men in that group chat and not a single one of them said “we shouldn’t rape this woman, she’s passed out and cannot consent, this isn’t right.” #cornell

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last wk.

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.