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Bradford Fults

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COO @ @bonsai.io | 💙 Ruby, Elixir, systems thinking, whiteboarding. Dismantler of patriarchy, proponent of humans thriving in harmony with the Universe; thoughtful eccentric and naturist.

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Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 8h
General PSA on best practices for product companies that email their customers: 1. Don’t send from a noreply@ address; make it your support address so people can just hit Reply. Be a human. 2. For the love of all that is good, don’t include the words “No Reply” in the sender of the email!
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Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 22h
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re having serious persistent anxiety about hitting your AI model usage quotas, you need to go outside, breathe the air and get a coffee or something. That is not healthy, and you are falling down a hole. Friends can help.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i’m not clicking and you shouldn’t either i repost bc it’s such a great example for a little critical reading (again, not of the piece): why is this outlet publishing this take? it’s a BUSINESS paper actual psych experts do NOT believe this. this is pandering to their audience.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
More of Dr. South's research: "A 1-SD increase in tree cover was associated with a 9% reduction...Simulated achievement of 40% baseline tree cover was associated with reductions in firearm violence, with the largest reductions in highly-deprived neighborhoods." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
sciencedirect.com
Neighborhood segregation, tree cover and firearm violence in 6 U.S. cities, 2015–2020
Neighborhood segregation by race and income is a structural determinant of firearm violence. Addressing green space deficits in segregated neighborhoo…
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
juliaserano.medium.com
On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads
and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses
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404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026
It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/09/2026
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)
propublica.org
Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
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404 Media @404media.co · 09/09/2026
Lindsey Isaacs was falsely arrested and imprisoned after authorities used Flock’s system to pull over the wrong person in a hit-and-run that killed three people. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social spoke to Lindsey and her lawyer about the ordeal. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc_6...
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404 Media @404media.co · 06/09/2026
The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse. www.404media.co/florida-depu...
404media.co
Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute
The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.
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Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 29/08/2026
RIP real human voice in marketing and news. Let me tell you why that matters. It’s not just a change in aesthetics. The loss of content is the loss of accountability. 🙄😒
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/08/2026
Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/08/2026
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people. www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
404media.co
‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
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Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 24/08/2026
This is wild: restofworld.org/2026/mexico-se…
restofworld.org
A Mexican surveillance giant you’ve never heard of is now watching the U.S. border
Grupo Seguritech quietly built a $1.27 billion surveillance empire. Now it's expanding into the U.S. and across Latin America.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 12/08/2026
I wonder if Chinese officials also have meetings debating which highly efficient energy infastructure technology options are unacceptable on account of being too woke and gay.
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 06/08/2026
If you’ve never watched the Savannah Bananas, you’re missing something special! ⚾🍌 Incredible athleticism. Spectacular trick plays. Music, dancing & nonstop energy. Every game is entertainment from first pitch to the final out. ❤️⚾ #SavannahBananas #BananaBall #BaseBall #SheShed
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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is a triggering image of a museum display in the natural history museum in DC about life before smartphones. Me and a fellow 40+ person were laughing at how we are now LITERAL MUSEUM PIECES. MY teen was like did you have a clear phone? An address book? A book of maps. Yes, yes I did. 🫠🫠🫠
An image of a boom box, a cd wallet, a travel atlas, business cards, dictionarjes a pay phone and various things people used before cellphones
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Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 05/08/2026
How many bytes do we just send around the Internet, over and over again for basically no reason? Every deploy that downloads & installs NodeJS. Every unchanged asset loaded for the thousandth time while checking your email. And who pays for all of it? Seems pretty wild.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...
404media.co
‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech
"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...
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Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 28/07/2026
@bsky.app How many times are y’all going to ask me to share my age range? Texas. iPhone 17 Pro. iOS 26.5.2
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Joe Public 🍁 @joepublic.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The biggest threat to aviation safety in the u.s. is air traffic control. They’re short-staffed, overworked, and working with outdated technology and bad culture has developed. viewfromthewing.com/america-keep...
viewfromthewing.com
America Keeps Throwing Billions At Broken Air Traffic Control — Canada Built A Better System 30 Years Ago
The U.S. keeps pouring billions into FAA-run air traffic control while staffing, technology, and accountability lag. Canada’s nonprofit NAV CANADA model shows a better path: separate regulator from op...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A dark money campaign is offering influencers $1,500 per post to attack Abdul El-Sayed and support Haley Stevens. Same exact dollar figure that was paid to attack @katmabu.bsky.social (Nobody ever found out who was paying for that campaign.) Gross, lazy and above all cynical shit.
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Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race
Rep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 21/07/2026
Today I asked if any Congressmember on @energycommerce.bsky.social would want to live next to a data center. The silence in the hearing room reflected the realities of working people across the country. We must address the real, dangerous health impacts of data centers on our communities.
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Trevor J. Adams @trevorjadams.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“Narcissists' desire for attention, affirmation and control makes them more likely to favour in-person work because it ‘offers richer channels for controlling and commanding reverence from employees.’”
cbc.ca
Boss wants you back in the office full time? New research suggests there may be personal motives behind it | CBC News
As more employees are being ordered back into the office full time, new research suggests the rationale may be more about bosses' desire for power and status than productivity.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity and happiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology.
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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026
Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Guy on the radio earlier saying we should all save our shower water and use that to flush the toilet. Around 60 companies are responsible for 80% of all global carbon emissions; telling us as individuals to do something without addressing that is just gaslighting and guilt tripping.
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Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 03/07/2026
Can I run an LLM model locally? llmrun.dev
llmrun.dev
Can I Run This LLM? Local AI Hardware Checker
Find out which AI models you can run locally. Check GPU compatibility, VRAM requirements, quantization options, and expected performance.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
nytimes.com
Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/07/2026
The largest part of the Supreme Court's 194-page decision on birthright citizenship is Justice Clarence Thomas's dissent. To Thomas, the 14th Amendment applied only to the freed people after the Civil War. In a concurrence, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson takes on Justice Thomas.
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Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 02/07/2026
Current Claude mood: “Big finding — I have egress”
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Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 30/06/2026
You know you should be working on Marketing, not features. You build new features anyway because (a) it's fun and (b) you know how. Whereas the business usually needs you to learn marketing and get another customer today.
longform.asmartbear.com
Put down the compiler until you learn why they’re not buying
Technical founders, step away from the code. Gather insights from non-buyers, rather than just adding more features.
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Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 24/06/2026
With AI you can make products no one wants faster than ever!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/06/2026
UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)
propublica.org
How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...
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Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 21/06/2026
www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet…
terrygodier.com
The Last Quiet Thing
Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States. snyder.substack.com/p/capitulati...
snyder.substack.com
Capitulation Day
The dimensions of defeat, and the chance for recovery
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404 Media @404media.co · 20/06/2026
The known cases of police stalking are almost certainly a vast underreporting of the overall abuse, because they largely include only cases in which the behavior was so egregious that it led to police officers being fired, arrested, or both. www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...
404media.co
Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/06/2026
Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix this town’s housing crisis. To this day, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. A $590,000 deposit for the printer was forfeited. And the more reporter Molly Parker asked questions, the weirder things got: propub.li/4nlU1VD
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jacobian @jacobian.org · 17/06/2026
Some thoughts on eating meat, which isn’t really about eating meat. jacobian.org/2026/jun/16/...
jacobian.org
This isn't a post about eating meat - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Notes about eating animals, morality, harm reduction — but this isn’t about any of that, not really.
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Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 17/06/2026
I’m sad and shaken to hear of Josh’s death. I will always be appreciative of the big role he played in my career at OIB/Return Path and connecting me and many others to community in the Austin tech scene. My sincerest condolences go to Amy, their kids, and Josh’s current and past teams. 😢
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
it actually brings me great pleasure to know that billionaires are so afraid of journalists that they’re trying to build whole new systems for justice to diminish our power. despite corporate consolidation, we continue to do something they can’t fully buy and it drives them mad. stay mad, assholes.
hollywoodreporter.com
A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First Target
The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved.
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Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 08/06/2026
“AI does not own outcomes. The engineer whose name is on the pull request owns the outcome, regardless of how much of the code an AI wrote. “Reducing the team does not reduce the number of things that can go wrong. It reduces the number of people available to own them.” codegood.co/writing/ai-shr…
codegood.co
AI Shrinks the Team, Not the Problem, CodeGood
AI replaces capability, not accountability. A team of 10 producing the output of 30 has tripled its coordination burden per person. The headcount drops. The problem does not.
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Bonsai Search @bonsai.io · 05/06/2026
Max (@max.io) walks us through using agentic retrieval to improve search results relevancy via SID. Next-level search quality! bonsai.io/blog/agent-s...
bonsai.io
Agentic Search Models with OpenSearch and Elasticsearch
We introduce agentic tool-based retreival models, and show how they are shaping the future of search quality.
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Lily Baker @lilybaker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The new bluesky account wide adult content label thing is horrendous, indiscriminately hiding all posts from a person just bc they've posted adult content - they need to reverse this so badly
Bsky post from Jay Axer (@jayaxer.bsky.social)
Be certain, as is always the case with things such as this, that ANYTHING can be considered sexual and can end in a blanket account shadowban under this.

It is easily weaponized

it is determined by an AI moderation system.
    
There is no accountability or recourse.

you probly can't read this.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
“If we are going to do a third Reconstruction we need politicians who conceive of themselves as working on behalf of a constituency, rather than would-be-saviors…And, like the people of Minnesota, we need to do the work to be that constituency…” www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-pres...
liberalcurrents.com
AOC for President
Whether or not she runs, Ocasio-Cortez is invoking a feminist politics that Democrats should adopt if they are serious about defeating fascism.
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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
“study of around 8,000 respondents concludes that women’s lower uptake of generative AI tools has little to do w/ skills or access. Instead, it is driven largely by how women perceive the broader societal risks associated w/ the new technology.”🧪 @josiecox.bsky.social
“…women are significantly more likely than men to worry about the wider consequences of generative AI, including its effects on employment, privacy, misinformation, mental health, and even the environment.

The researchers concluded that women's hesitation is less about fear of personal safety, and more about a concern for Al's broader societal and ethical
consequences.

One of the study's most striking findings is that the gap persists even among young, highly educated, and digitally confident users. In other words, women who are perfectly capable of using tools like ChatGPT-and who already engage heavily with technology-remain more hesitant. That hesitation appears to be less about fear of the tools themselves…”
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
since apparently JKR is spouting nonsense about "gametes" again, here is my in depth primer on why anti-trans groups have become so obsessed with gametes & why the actual science does not support their claims (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...
juliaserano.medium.com
Why Are “Gender Critical” Activists So Fond of Gametes?
plus my new video “Trans People and Biological Sex: What the Science Says”
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