adafruitFeb 16

No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools

In 1925 a doctor said vacuum cleaners will make women lazy. In 2026 mastodon dudes said the same thing (and worse) about a woman engineer using a tool to make a CAD part.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/16/no-tools-for-you-a-century-of-men-policing-womens-tools/

DouglasFeb 18
Show threadGlowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands
@adafruit as a woman I am offended that you'd compare the actual bullshit our foremothers faced under sexism to people pushing back against AI, a "service" that's buggy, harmful, ecologically damaging, and being used as a tool in class warfare to push people out of their jobs, something that disproportionately happens to women and minorities first.

You should be ashamed of yourself.
Feb 16 at 11:14pmWeb
Show threadKevin RussellFeb 17

@deathkitten @adafruit

I had to hear you snap back before I realised adafruit was just protecting corporate AI. Wow.

Thanks deathkitten, I know what to expect from that account now. Corporate bullshit bathed in whatever "washing" they can paint it with.

Show threadEugene  Feb 17

@deathkitten Check @adafruit blog, there are a lot of articles about using #LLM in electronics "design". If they are going to adopt LLMs, then there are no surprise that they are trying to whitewash it as much as possible   , using all available methods.

When I was learning electronics at university, drawing such simple electronic schemas and footprints was a key to be able to do much more complex things with EDA. Outsourcing this mental work to Plagiarized Information Synthesis System is a literally: "you will learn nothing and be happy" 

Show threadjwzFeb 17
@deathkitten It's like the "everything I hate is woke" meme but now criticizing "AI" is sexism. It really does cook your brain.
Show threadGlowing Cat of the Nuclear WastelandsFeb 17
@jwz even better, I just saw a boost about how the owner will fucking dox people in they criticize the company after having previously donated.

The levels of disgusting here is a shit parfait.