Mastodawn

I know exactly what I'm not going to do today (or not supposed to do), but I have no idea what I am going to do. #conundrum

Evan Genest Apr 22

"The very structures of knowledge production (conferences, panels, theoretical frameworks, the categories of analysis) were reproducing the hierarchies they claimed to oppose."

Tara Tarakiyee explaining part of the Audre Lord, 1979 speech which gives us *tools of the master cannot dismantle the master's house* quote.

https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/

#nonprofit #blindspot #conundrum #madison

On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse

🖼️Cover Photo: Train at the Nairobi terminus of the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway. It runs parallel to the Uganda Railway that was completed in 1901. The first fare-paying passengers boarded the "Madaraka Express" on Madaraka Day (1 June 2017), the 54th anniversary of Kenya's attainment of self-rule from Great

Do Flamingos Know They're Pink

Fluffgar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Apr 14

There are lots of folk on the more corporate social media sites I'd love to interact with (and maybe even woo over to the Fediverse). But I can't bring myself to go back there.

The most I can manage is that blue sky thing. And I barely use that.

🫤
#SocialMedia #fediverse #conundrum

CBC Calgary Apr 12

A novelist was accused of using AI. Why the literary world is still grappling with guardrails
The recent cancelling of a horror novelist's book demonstrates the conundrum that literary professionals face as they comb through every pitch, query letter and manuscript lobbed their way: how do you separate the proverbial wheat from the AI-generated chaff, and what happens if you get it wrong?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/publishing-industry-ai-shy-girl-fallout-9.7155292?cmp=rss

CBC Top Stories Apr 12

A novelist was accused of using AI. Why the literary world is still grappling with guardrails
The recent cancelling of a horror novelist's book demonstrates the conundrum that literary professionals face as they comb through every pitch, query letter and manuscript lobbed their way: how do you separate the proverbial wheat from the AI-generated chaff, and what happens if you get it wrong?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/publishing-industry-ai-shy-girl-fallout-9.7155292?cmp=rss