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Siobhan Harkin
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Biochemistry/toxicology background. Access to education for all is my life long passion. Outdoors except when there's snooker on.
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Ferdia Lennon: Glorious Exploits. It has unfailingly fired the imaginations of teenage boys I know.
January 26, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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“The age of Gen AI is ‘the age of no consent.’ Unsurprisingly, women are less keen on GenAI than men, & a lot of that has to do with how it is used to harm them. Funny how women tried to warn us about this years ago….” 🙏🏼

Indeed, Silicon Valley runs on lack of consent!

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If you will forgive me this general observation, the internet and present societal norms and expectations concerning internet conduct are built on a very male model in which consent is assumed. It is the default of the internet, and objections to it are exceedingly hard to enforce. Securing permission creates friction. It’s messy and non-linear. Inefficient and non-binary. If achieving maximum efficiency is an engineer’s objective, he will see permission as an obstacle to be circumvented. If you don’t want to be rejected, you don’t ask the question. If you are male, white and straight, gains in efficiency will likely override any concerns about the role of consent. But someone who is a part of a community in which consent has historically been undermined, undervalued or eliminated might employ a different balancing test. In short, women and people of color have a unique relationship to the exercise of free will as manifested through the ability to determine consent. And the “maleness” of the internet once again marginalizes them and exposes them to extreme risk. So this World IP Day, let’s celebrate the women that are fighting back. Fighting to safeguard privacy. Fighting to address revenge porn and sex trafficking. Fighting to ensure that a creator has the ability to determine how her original work is going to be used. These are all reflections of the same underlying challenge — how do we ensure the role of consent in a technological environment that celebrates “breaking things” in pursuit of “permission-less innovation?”
January 22, 2026 at 1:10 PM
seani1.bsky.social
Very accurate
December 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
seani1.bsky.social
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing this and Happy Christmas to you Robert.
December 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
seani1.bsky.social
My husband gave me a marzipan potato for ours. Very realistic.
December 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM