Gregory's Server
Le Guin’s advice—read when you cannot write, sleep when you cannot read—has been top of mind all week and I am intensely grateful.
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We really haven’t learned a goddamn thing about female-gendered bots have we. (I wrote this *eight* fucking years ago.) https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/bots You cannot separate the ongoing fascination with creating femme AI servants from the ongoing efforts to restrict reproductive and trans rights. They are both part of a concerted effort to equate feminity with servitude, and to maintain caretaking as free and unwaged labor.  @aworkinglibrary thank you for writing this - at the moment I'm heavily involved in AI projects and Tome of Voice is important, but just as much is now it's delivered - in essence we build "for the many people" so having things not be creepy or fake is very important. The persona will be something we have to tackle and your view is a great one to add to the design considerations PSA to other folks who also frequently schedule meetings across the Atlantic: DST ends this Sunday in Europe but it doesn’t end until the following Sunday in the US—because if we’re going to fuck with the clocks let’s maximize the chaos and fuck with them at different times, sure, why not.
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 i got into the habit of giving meeting times in utc/zulu and letting everyone's calendar figure out if/when DST would affect them just to avoid this. collossal pain and frequently shows just how broken time zone/DST support in many calendar programs is. whee!!!! @aworkinglibrary the history of DST is interesting: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Seize_the_Daylight/vin1BgAAQBAJ?hl=en  @aworkinglibrary |