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Von Gunten Caroline
Some AI evangelists are out here saying it can work miracles.
Meanwhile AI is giving major Missing Stair energy.
MissConstrueI woke up this morning to a slew of text messages pointing me towards an article on Vulture about Neil Gaiman. Most of the messages were people saying they were sorry they didn’t believe me in the early 90s when I first started warning people that he was a “missing stair”, a fake feminist, and a dangerous man in a closed room. I’m so fucking tired of being Cassandra. I warned you people. Over and over. Nobody fucking believed me. It was a large part of why I walked away from a career in that industry.
Trigger warning: this article is brutal. I wish I had not read it unprepared. This is very much a strap on your protective armor and maybe plan on quiet time, read. It is nightmare fuel. It probably still won’t be enough for him to see any real consequences.
(Archive link to avoid paywall, I support Vulture, but this story needs to be widely disseminated.)
Patrick QuinThis is how I learned that #Xanderhal is a #missingstair
“he had an entire sect of the online left just completely excommunicating Thought Slime because she "spread the sex cult rumors" when she didn't even say his name, and quickly deleted the tweet after. Like god, imagine being able to do that, right?”
Coach Pāṇini ®The idea of a #BrokenStair or #MissingStair in communities is a metaphor used to describe a person who is known to be problematic or abusive, but is allowed to remain in the community without being held accountable for their actions.
The metaphor comes from the idea that a broken or missing stair in a staircase is something that people in the community have learned to work around, rather than fixing the underlying problem.
