New #Mansplaining Hall of Fame just dropped

@franksting Bill has strong feelpinions today.

And Meredith Whittaker has the patience of a saint.

@franksting @trib I want to be Meredith when I grow up. (I also want to be Darcy Vescio, Carlton football player and theme costume design genius.)
@emmadavidson @franksting you could do a LOT worse. Admirable people, both.

@emmadavidson @franksting as an aside, you might enjoy the latest episode of Not Gonna Lie, where Kylie Kelce talks at length to Ilona Maher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2k4DMenA6c

Kylie on Bikini Runway Walks, Carnivore Diet & Father’s Day Gifts For Mom with Ilona Maher | Ep. 22

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@trib @franksting ooh I will check that out!
@emmadavidson @franksting it was really good. In fact, her podcast is popular for good reason - interesting women doing important things.
@trib @emmadavidson i don’t know these people, what are they known for?
@franksting @trib Ilona is a rugby union player in the USA. RTMI as I’m on the board of one of Canberra’s oldest rugby clubs, and I’m particularly keen to increase the numbers in our womens and girls teams.

@franksting @emmadavidson as Emma said, Ilona Maher is a rugby player. She plays both 7s (for the USA) and 15s for the Bristol Bears in England.

Kylie Kelce is the wife of fomer Philadelphia Eagles center, Jason Kelce, and a former field hockey player at high level. She's proven over the past handful of years to be an incredibly savvy businesswoman while being very natural and focussed on lifting others. She does a lot of work with a disability charity in Philadelphia, parents 4 girls under 6, and now has an extremely popular podcast that focuses on women doing important work, parenting, and sports.

Her podcast pushed Rogan off the #1 spot on debut, which had him making some pretty unhinged comments.

Her politics lean (in her own words) “aggressively Left”.

Side note (and an ongoing source of amusement in the Kelce tribe) is that her brother-in-law, Travis Kelce, who plays tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, is Taylor Swift's boyfriend.

@emmadavidson @franksting @trib honestly, if we had more Meridith Whittakers and fewer Jay Grabers, the tech world would be so much better, for everyone, but mostly women

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Bill be like:

Think I am mansplaining? Do you? Hold my beer.

This man truly goes where no man has gone before. New depths to dig himself into.

@h3artbl33d @franksting he's probably using an LLM to write the responses. He's an AI expert that knows prompt engineering so, "the following is a conversation with an uninformed woman, so as a techbro, mansplain to her why she's wrong".
@guigsy @h3artbl33d @franksting You jest, but the weird little contradictions in his responses ("president has tipped their hat" in the first, then claiming he has "a better insight than the president" in the last) did make me wonder if this IS an LLM because it gives off this "Doesn't really have an understanding of the topic at hand" vibe that LLM's so often do.

@h3artbl33d @franksting

> Heighten pattern recognition

ROFLCOPTER

"retort with something clever" lmao girl where??? where's the clever retort?? is she in the building 🤔🫩
@h3artbl33d @franksting His hole is getting so deep that he is starting to see daylight again …
@franksting it gets better. later down in the thread he doubles down, even explicitly stating he thinks he knows better than her.
@franksting Counter of Bill Mitchells that aren't the greatest people: 2
To be fair, the post was written by an LLM to be confident but wrong.
@franksting this isn't Mansplaining, it's just straight up lying.
@jeffmcneill it’s a good job I’m not a woman then!

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Not only that, but @Mer__edith has explicitly promised no AI clutter:

https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/114693750092114506

Meredith Whittaker (@Mer__edith@mastodon.world)

Attached: 1 image Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

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