New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Let’s make it viral folks. Thank you @histoftech.bsky.social.

At work a coworker didn't like the inhaler their doctor prescribed them. (Thought it sounded too fake) so they asked Copilot if there was more natural alternatives. It recommended mixing bleach and ammonia and breathing in the fumes.

That required a very serious talk about not creating mustard gas.

why would the chatbot made by a guy in the epstein files lie ryan?

It’s pretty fucked that the time saving miracle of AI has at least as many stories of people wasting time as saving it. It generates conflict rather than saving time.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Anyway, yeah. The overwhelming impression one gets from so many of these emails is that a lot of them are guys who have never had a real, serious friendship with a woman in their lives.

Which sucks for them, but also sucks for every woman who has to deal with them, ever.

And some of us actually hate video content and are sick of having it pushed on us. I do not want to spend 5 minutes watching what I could read in 30 seconds. Cannot explain how ticked off I get when I click onto a headline and find out it goes to a video only instead of an article.

let me rot in my cave like god intended

It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification.

But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:

In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex