Tawny Platis on 65 years of female robotic voices in movies and TV

#voices #assistants #ai

Unsere Klägerin arbeitet seit fast 30 Jahren bei Daimler, 15 davon als Abteilungsleiterin. Trotz gleicher Arbeit & Quali verdiente sie deutlich weniger als ein Kollege auf gleicher Ebene. Objektive Gründe für diesen Unterschied? Konnte Daimler bislang nicht vorbringen.

Das LAG BaWü hatte ihr nur den Unterschied zum Medianwert der Männer zugestanden. Das hieß im Klartext: Eine Frau kann immer nur so viel verlangen, wie ein mittelmäßiger Mann. Diesem Ansatz hat das BAG jetzt eine Absage erteilt.

I happen to own a little open source software company that is expressly anti-fascist, has a “No AI” policy, and has recently been called “aggressively queer” in case you’re interested in supporting tech companies like that:

https://elementary.io

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out a fact sheet about them to a bunch of journalists, but very few are going to write about this. So, let me try posting it all here.

Here's what I know about Reflect Orbital and all the downsides:

the KIDS are ALRIGHT ​​​​

I paid a fuckton of money for my @frameworkcomputer laptop parts. I paid extra for the parts I could've saved money on elsewhere because I wanted to support the company and what they stand for. I even ported Debian to the RISC-V Motherboard for the product that made Framework Framework: The Framework 13.

Now Framework decided to sponsor Omarchy and Hyprland, the leaderships of which are not just "politically of a different opinion", they are actively toxic, hostile and highly discriminatory, to phrase it euphemistically.

Nirav Patel responded to this in the community forum, essentially doubling down on the decision to take a "big tent approach".

I want to reiterate: __This isn't about "political differences", because the political difference are actively harmful to democracy itself, and the physical safety of marginalised communities.

Someone I supported in good faith with both code and money turned around and gave this money to multiple people who'd rather see me dead for existing.

Needless to say, I feel quite betrayed and I'm really torn on wether or not I should even continue and proceed with the port for the second RISC-V mainboard, because I don't want to end up supporting the hate towards me, my wife or other people in the same situation as me.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels betrayed by this decision.

Hier erklärt das Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy kindgerecht, warum #Chatkontrolle eine sehr sehr schlechte Idee ist.

Das ist wichtige Arbeit, weil es auch nach drei Jahren „Diskussion“ immer noch Politikerinnen gibt, die es nicht verstanden haben.

EU muss endlich die #ChatkontrolleStoppen!

https://fair.tube/w/w98MJRXxdtYedDzAkDVw5R

Anyone who sides with fascists is a fascist, and I don't want their browser near my stuff.

Ladybird will be joining Brave, and will be driven into the maze.

So once again, I say, DHH and the ladybird browser guy are both embarrassing fascist gutter water drinkers who are cringy and whiny as fuck.

"The Free Software Foundation has been sliding into irrelevance more and more by entirely failing to address its big Creepy Uncle problem. Open-Source has turned into a form of unpaid internship to be hired to make shitty apps that bring more surveillance and ads to our world."

https://aria.dog/barks/forklift-certified-license/

Bei vielen Debatten im Bundestag ist es schwer, nicht laut zu schreien. Das erste Baby am Bauch einer Rednerin hat es geschafft, gelassen zu bleiben – und die Aufmerksamkeit zur Abwechslung auf die Familienpolitik gelenkt.
👉 https://taz.de/!6111703/

still really impressed about the discovery that the japanese water beetle can survive getting eaten by frogs because it combines its natural tendencies with just straight up walking through the entire digestive system at a brisk jog.

like they just fucking say no thank you and leave. this feels like one of the most insanely powerful adaptations i can imagine a creature having. like nah i can't do anything to stop the voracious predator of my biome from consuming me. Doesn't Mean I Give Up

Seeing that some villains are trying to take the T out of LGBT so trans people get erased and ignored. You know that the word "queer" is right there and it includes all of us perverts and freaks, right? We tried hard to get queer to happen, but the straight folk didn't like it so they call us LGBT, like we're simply a list of approved aberrations. And a lot of us queer folk have submitted to this linguistic oppression. I am sad every time I hear a queer person say "LGBT" or "LGBTQIA+" or whatever, because that's accepting the oppressor's language for us. Queer is a good word because it includes everyone who isn't part of the sexual majority. It is inclusive by default and by definition.

For anyone who thinks "queer" is a slur so they prefer "gay" because it's not a slur, I'll point out that only a couple decades ago "gay" was a slur and we said "homosexual" to be polite. Language evolves. Embrace "queer" and avoid having to figure out what groups deserve to be part of an abbreviation.

well this is a cool project! aims to combine guix, goblins, and hoot to make a yunohost-like application. https://fishinthecalculator.me/fortino.html