#feminism — Public Fediverse posts

i get why people feel a certain 'betrayal' over these last couple of years of basically everyone in tech seemingly 'switching sides' over AI.

i get it. people, communities, companies, projects that you previously respected and connected with now turning heel and becoming something you no longer recognise, just over this one temptation.

but consider.

it's likely that it isn't a betrayal, but that it's just now occuring to you that the tech world has always been fundamentally made of these same right-wing men with merely a subversive aesthetic on top. they have always been that way.

maybe FOSS hasn't been a grand idealist fight for freedom, but just the tech variation of "don't let these hollywood elites tell me what to do" all along.

maybe "ugh, literally everyone in tech uses AI nowadays, and who isn't is lying" isn't a shitty pro-AI lie to make you feel left behind, but it is actually true, but actually a scathing indictment of the tech world.

maybe tech has always been a fundamentally right-wing space by design, and us carving our own progessive niches is an illusion. perhaps "hacking" as a hobby and culture is inherently supportive of societal hierarchies like that.

and maybe we should now reflect on why and how the general progressive online transfeminine subculture has been so intertwined with the extremely male tech world, its culture and its prevalent toxic masculinity. why your average fedi trans girl has identical hobbies, interests and personality traits as your average male incel 4channer tech bro.

what the fact that the tech world has been so integral to our spaces says about us and about misogyny in our community. why are transfem spaces almost always hacker/programming/tech spaces as well? what does that say about us in a world where tech is increasingly a right-wing identifier?

perhaps we need to analyse what impact computers, the internet and tech culture have had on the culture of queer and neurodivergent communities. how much of our culture is techbro culture and we're only now realising it?

#ai #antiai #feminism

i get why people feel a certain 'betrayal' over these last couple of years of basically everyone in tech seemingly 'switching sides' over AI.

i get it. people, communities, companies, projects that you previously respected and connected with now turning heel and becoming something you no longer recognise, just over this one temptation.

but consider.

it's likely that it isn't a betrayal, but that it's just now occuring to you that the tech world has always been fundamentally made of these same right-wing men with merely a subversive aesthetic on top. they have always been that way.

maybe FOSS hasn't been a grand idealist fight for freedom, but just the tech variation of "don't let these hollywood elites tell me what to do" all along.

maybe "ugh, literally everyone in tech uses AI nowadays, and who isn't is lying" isn't a shitty pro-AI lie to make you feel left behind, but it is actually true, but actually a scathing indictment of the tech world.

maybe tech has always been a fundamentally right-wing space by design, and us carving our own progessive niches is an illusion. perhaps "hacking" as a hobby and culture is inherently supportive of societal hierarchies like that.

and maybe we should now reflect on why and how the general progressive online transfeminine subculture has been so intertwined with the extremely male tech world, its culture and its prevalent toxic masculinity. why your average fedi trans girl has identical hobbies, interests and personality traits as your average male incel 4channer tech bro.

what the fact that the tech world has been so integral to our spaces says about us and about misogyny in our community. why are transfem spaces almost always hacker/programming/tech spaces as well? what does that say about us in a world where tech is increasingly a right-wing identifier?

perhaps we need to analyse what impact computers, the internet and tech culture have had on the culture of queer and neurodivergent communities. how much of our culture is techbro culture and we're only now realising it?

#ai #antiai #feminism

i get why people feel a certain 'betrayal' over these last couple of years of basically everyone in tech seemingly 'switching sides' over AI.

i get it. people, communities, companies, projects that you previously respected and connected with now turning heel and becoming something you no longer recognise, just over this one temptation.

but consider.

it's likely that it isn't a betrayal, but that it's just now occuring to you that the tech world has always been fundamentally made of these same right-wing men with merely a subversive aesthetic on top. they have always been that way.

maybe FOSS hasn't been a grand idealist fight for freedom, but just the tech variation of "don't let these hollywood elites tell me what to do" all along.

maybe "ugh, literally everyone in tech uses AI nowadays, and who isn't is lying" isn't a shitty pro-AI lie to make you feel left behind, but it is actually true, but actually a scathing indictment of the tech world.

maybe tech has always been a fundamentally right-wing space by design, and us carving our own progessive niches is an illusion. perhaps "hacking" as a hobby and culture is inherently supportive of societal hierarchies like that.

and maybe we should now reflect on why and how the general progressive online transfeminine subculture has been so intertwined with the extremely male tech world, its culture and its prevalent toxic masculinity. why your average fedi trans girl has identical hobbies, interests and personality traits as your average male incel 4channer tech bro.

what the fact that the tech world has been so integral to our spaces says about us and about misogyny in our community. why are transfem spaces almost always hacker/programming/tech spaces as well? what does that say about us in a world where tech is increasingly a right-wing identifier?

perhaps we need to analyse what impact computers, the internet and tech culture have had on the culture of queer and neurodivergent communities. how much of our culture is techbro culture and we're only now realising it?

#ai #antiai #feminism

i get why people feel a certain 'betrayal' over these last couple of years of basically everyone in tech seemingly 'switching sides' over AI.

i get it. people, communities, companies, projects that you previously respected and connected with now turning heel and becoming something you no longer recognise, just over this one temptation.

but consider.

it's likely that it isn't a betrayal, but that it's just now occuring to you that the tech world has always been fundamentally made of these same right-wing men with merely a subversive aesthetic on top. they have always been that way.

maybe FOSS hasn't been a grand idealist fight for freedom, but just the tech variation of "don't let these hollywood elites tell me what to do" all along.

maybe "ugh, literally everyone in tech uses AI nowadays, and who isn't is lying" isn't a shitty pro-AI lie to make you feel left behind, but it is actually true, but actually a scathing indictment of the tech world.

maybe tech has always been a fundamentally right-wing space by design, and us carving our own progessive niches is an illusion. perhaps "hacking" as a hobby and culture is inherently supportive of societal hierarchies like that.

and maybe we should now reflect on why and how the general progressive online transfeminine subculture has been so intertwined with the extremely male tech world, its culture and its prevalent toxic masculinity. why your average fedi trans girl has identical hobbies, interests and personality traits as your average male incel 4channer tech bro.

what the fact that the tech world has been so integral to our spaces says about us and about misogyny in our community. why are transfem spaces almost always hacker/programming/tech spaces as well? what does that say about us in a world where tech is increasingly a right-wing identifier?

perhaps we need to analyse what impact computers, the internet and tech culture have had on the culture of queer and neurodivergent communities. how much of our culture is techbro culture and we're only now realising it?

#ai #antiai #feminism