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Alexandria "Ellen" F-J

@binaryvixen899.bsky.social

⛩️✝️|🦊🐺|🏳️‍⚧️♀️ <3 @lizthegrey.com & many others Engineer, writer, gamer, avid runner Owns way too many space LEGO sets Opinions = mine

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Alexandria "Ellen" F-J@binaryvixen899.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm not really sure how to convey to other tech people the sheer enormity of the psychic weight this has had on transgender people for whom tech is either their passion, or what they view as their only ticket to a life with dignity. Trans people are at the front of the labor conflict here.

mcc@dryad.technology · 2d ago

A thing that dominates my world but most people don't seem to know about is virtually every trans person I know in software lost their jobs over the last 2 years. Like maybe…one exception? Some got rehired. Most didn't. I'm going to be okay. A lot of folks are not going to be okay. Maybe ever again

austin_walker@austinwalker.bsky.social · 2d ago

Over the past month, IGF judges and jurists have had intense, difficulty, generous, and deeply engaged conversations about AI and the games industry. This statement is the result of those conversations.

This year's IGF entries have been incredible. We've been lucky to play games that surprise, connect, and challenge us, and we're excited to vote for our favorites. Unfortunately, there has also been a significant increase in the number of submitted games developed with generative AI tools. This has set off some fairly intense discussion and disagreement across the judge and jury pools, and at this point there is no universal consensus on what (if anything) is to be done. The IGF has affirmed that we may cast our votes according to our own tastes and values. But we, a contingent of IGF jurors, feel that this trend and the games embracing it deserve stronger pushback than a vote in silence. While IGF leadership has approved the release of this statement, it's important to note that we do not speak for IGF as an organization, or for all IGF jury members. Many jurors had differing perspectives and significant reservations about this statement. Some jurists additionally voiced concern about their ability to safely sign without professional blowback, and we do not intend this letter to serve as a censure of those who were unable to sign. Above all: Our goal is to state solidarity with those who despair over the future of their art, their craft, and their industry—including those who have experimented with these tools in the past, but who now believe they are not in our best interest. We know that change does not come at the individual level, but as independent developers, we also know firsthand the value of pushing back on what an industry has deemed "inevitable." As jurists, we feel a responsibility to push past defeatism and aspire to a higher ideal. The future is not yet settled. You are not alone. We can stand together.We, the undersigned IGF jury members, believe the following: 1. That generative AI has these negative effects: Ecological harms at community and planetary levels Economic harms to working developers and artists Cognitive and psychological harms to its users Harm to the increasingly fragile information landscape Harms to labor and worker power in creative fields 2. That these harms do not depend on what is generated, be it music or writing, art or VO, marketing assets or code. 3. That AI-generated code is not an exception to these harms. Programming is a creative discipline whose labour deserves the same respect we extend to any part of making a game. This extends to the past work used to train these models without the creators' consent. 4. Finally, that the use of these tools is neither a foregone conclusion in our industry nor that their adoption has been wholly voluntary. We stand in solidarity not only with those developers who have the freedom to unilaterally reject them, but also with those who have been compelled by their employers to adopt their use, those working to establish or improve their workplace policies, and especially with those in positions of precarity who are so often those most pressured to abandon their values. For these reasons, this year we are declining to vote for any game that uses generative AI in any capacity. We urge the IGF to adopt a strong anti-AI policy for future years that disallows games containing any AI-generated work. A.M. Darke aurahack Aura Triolo Austin Walker Brendon Chung Brent Arnold Dan Floyd Everest Pipkin Gianna Ruggiero isaac io schankler Johnnemann Nordhagen Lena Raine Marielle Kho Megan Fox Noel Berry Osama Dorias Sam Barlow Tamara Duplantis Taylor Mccue
Alexandria "Ellen" F-J@binaryvixen899.bsky.social · 4d ago

I see that I638 has finally been called by NBC news. Although this vote saddens me greatly, I do not view it as evidence of any new hidden evil in the Washington public. This appears to be a 60/40 issue to a misinformed public, a tragic but temporary setback that will hurt all #Washington women.

Alexandria "Ellen" F-J@binaryvixen899.bsky.social · 6d ago

What's going on with that awful anti trans bill in WA, and why? This is the full story. Instead of panicking, read this. www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2026/...

Brian Heywood's horrible "prove you have a vagina" measure to exclude trans girls from girls' sports is passing. Now what? - NPI's Cascadia Advocate

Initial returns show the measure ahead statewide, but its ballot language left out crucial details about how it would affect girls who play sports. If the result holds, a legal challenge could prevent...

nwprogressive.org

Alexandria "Ellen" F-J@binaryvixen899.bsky.social · 6d ago

Some thoughts, when we talk about who to hold to account in #America, I am not interested in having discourse about post morteming certain groups of voters or not. I am interested in people who, say, broke the law; being held to account for their actions. We have to target policy, things we agree on

Anne@anneb.bsky.social · 7d ago

Ten trans people were elected last night 🏳️‍⚧️ Allison Montgomery (AL) Bentley Hudgins (GA) Sarah McBride (DE) DeShanna Neal (DE) Zooey Zephyr (MT) Quinnie Pérez (FL) Jaelynn Scott (WA) Joanna Whaley (MI) Dina Martinez-Ruth (WI) Liish Kozlowski (MN) Pink white and blue tsunami🏳️‍⚧️

Kieran (Work Mode)@toadally.bsky.social · last wk.

Hope is not foolish. It is resistance. You can have hope while being aware of the past and what steps still need to be taken to ensure we don’t backslide again. Hope has just as much power to keep your inner fire lit as spite, anger or a steely resolve.

Zee (missing life's little cues)@miscue.bsky.social · last wk.

IMMEDIATELY. I don't think Mamdani waited a full day before he was fixing actual problems. AND. You MUST TELL people what you are doing! People are very silly en masse, and they need to be told "Today I fixed all the potholes on X street." Loudly. Preferably by a good dedicated media team

ETX Gov@etxgov.myatproto.social · last wk.

Hope everyone remembers the Mamdani Prime Directive: Do all the cool shit you can to make folks lives better immediately.

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · last wk.

in my own life I've found that this is an area where person-to-person conversation is the way. in 2023 we got 1000+ Portland Catholic school parents to write testimonials against the archbishop's transphobic new student policy because someone from church talked to them about how it would hurt kids

M. Belanger@sethanikeem.bsky.social · last wk.

I have a broad circle of otherwise open-minded lefty friends And the (mostly) older ones not in a very specific online bubble have only been exposed to negative takes on trans folks. At best, they’re starting from a place where trans people are a silly fad to be mocked We got work to do