VALERIE issue 5 and Total Woman Victory issue 4 are out now!
This commit is contained in:
parent
7517b42805
commit
a32e21aad6
Binary file not shown.
|
After Width: | Height: | Size: 1.8 KiB |
Binary file not shown.
|
After Width: | Height: | Size: 15 KiB |
|
|
@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
|
|||
<div class="box">
|
||||
<h3>Announcement Box</h3>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li><b>2025-09-13</b>: Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated: I am happily freelancing, in good health, and have pieces coming out in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250913220611/https://valeriezine.neocities.org/"><i>VALERIE</i></a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250913220319/https://www.totalwomanvictory.com/"><i>Total Woman Victory</i></a> in the next few months. My next book, <i>A Woman Named Bartholomew</i>, is coming out in November. Those praying on my downfall, pray harder!</li>
|
||||
<li><b>2025-10-01</b>: <a href="https://ko-fi.com/s/648137aa42"><i>VALERIE</i> Issue 5</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20251001151532/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/689af5c23b6c22648def13a7/t/68dd25488d7df01c9a548a48/1759323464380/TWV+Vol+1+Issue+4+In+Lieu+of+Flowers.pdf"><i>Total Woman Victory</i> Issue 4</a> are out now! <i>VALERIE</i> covers struggles between mothers and daughters, and <i>Total Woman Victory</i> honors our feminist foremothers, with a special focus on submissions by women in the Global South. Both, of course, are free to download and read.</li>
|
||||
<li><b>2025-08-13</b>: Friendly reminder that I have never paywalled ANY of my books and NEVER WILL. Anyone trying to sell you a copy of a book I have written is trying to scam you.</li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -152,6 +152,39 @@
|
|||
</tr>
|
||||
</table>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
<table class="f">
|
||||
<tr class="info">
|
||||
<td>The New Age of Sexism</td>
|
||||
<td>Laura Bates</td>
|
||||
<td>Casual</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr>
|
||||
<td class="snippet">When users become desensitized to venting their frustration at Siri or Alexa for offering substandard responses or for not being clever or efficient enough, there is a risk that both they and others present, such as children growing up in homes where AI assistants are regularly used, absorb the belief that it is normal and acceptable to speak to women in a similar way.</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
</table>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
<table class="f">
|
||||
<tr class="info">
|
||||
<td>Confronting Dystopia</td>
|
||||
<td>Eva Paus</td>
|
||||
<td>Academic</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr>
|
||||
<td class="snippet">Prophecies about the devastating impact of new technologies on jobs and working conditions are not new, going back to at least the early nineteenth century, when the Luddites smashed the steam-powered looms that were threatening their jobs.</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
</table>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
<table class="f">
|
||||
<tr class="info">
|
||||
<td>Your Face Belongs to Us</td>
|
||||
<td>Kashmir Hill</td>
|
||||
<td>Casual</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr>
|
||||
<td class="snippet">When the prototype "automated people meter" successfully detected a person sitting on the couch, their name popped up above their head in a sans-serif white font on Turk's desktop computer. It was working perfectly until the film crew surprised Turk by bringing in a black Labrador.<br>The system tagged the dog as "Stanzi," the one woman in the experiment.</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
</table>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
<p><a class="button" href="#moids">> Show books by men too?</a></p>
|
||||
<div id="moids">
|
||||
<p><a class="button" href="#">> Aahh! Never mind!</a></p>
|
||||
|
|
@ -187,6 +220,72 @@
|
|||
<td class="snippet">It's conceivable before long that there will, at some point, be robots that can run 100 metres faster than Usain Bolt or shoot lower scores on the golf course than Tiger Woods, even at their best. But would we be interested in this? You might well be if you are fascinated by robotic performance. But most of us were thrilled by Bolt and Woods in their prime precisely because they were flesh-and-blood humans like us... When we read great literature or listen to fine music or view superb paintings, part of the thrill is precisely that another human has been involved in the work - striving, communicating, creating, and, in turn, inspiring, stimulating, and elevating our lives. Again, an indispensable and intrinsic part of that experience is the knowledge that another human is at the other end... And so, no matter how capable our systems are, it's likely that many forms of human expression, not least live performance, will continue to be valued by humans for their own sake.</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
</table>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
<table class="m">
|
||||
<tr class="info">
|
||||
<td>The AI Delusion</td>
|
||||
<td>Gary Smith</td>
|
||||
<td>Academic</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr>
|
||||
<td class="snippet">The average brain has nearly 100 billion neurons, which is far, far more than can be replicated by the most powerful computers. On the other hand, compared to humans, the African elephant has three times as many neurons and one dolphin species has nearly twice as many neurons in the cerebral cortex. Yet, elephants, dolphins, and other creatures do not write poetry and novels, design skyscrapers and computers, prove theorems and make rational arguments. So it isn't just a numbers game.</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
</table>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
<table class="m">
|
||||
<tr class="info">
|
||||
<td>Ethical Machines</td>
|
||||
<td>Reid Blackman</td>
|
||||
<td>Casual</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr>
|
||||
<td class="snippet">Does your head of HR know about Amazon's biased hiring AI? Do they know how it happened? Do they know how bias can creep into an AI? Do they know the ethical, reputational, and legal implications of using biased AI? Does your chief medical officer know Optum's AI recommended paying more attention to white patients than to sicker Black patients? Are your doctors and nurses familiar with it? Does your advertising agency know about Facebook's AI that advertised houses for sale to white people and houses for rent to Black people?</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
</table>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
<table class="m">
|
||||
<tr class="info">
|
||||
<td>Co-Intelligence</td>
|
||||
<td>Ethan Mollick</td>
|
||||
<td>Casual</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr>
|
||||
<td class="snippet">Another consequence is that we could reduce the quality and depth of our thinking and reasoning. When we use AI to generate our first drafts, we don't have to think as hard or as deeply about what we write. We rely on the machine to do the hard work of analysis and synthesis, and we don't engage in critical and reflective thinking ourselves. We also miss the opportunity to learn from our mistakes and feedback and the chance to develop our own style.</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
</table>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
<table class="m">
|
||||
<tr class="info">
|
||||
<td>AI Snake Oil</td>
|
||||
<td>Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor</td>
|
||||
<td>Casual</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr>
|
||||
<td class="snippet">To generate a single token - part of a word - ChatGPT has to perform roughly a trillion arithmetic operations. If you asked it to generate a poem that ended up having about a thousand tokens (i.e., a few hundred words), it would have required about a quadrillion calculations - a million billion. To appreciate the magnitude of that number, if every single person in the world together performed arithmetic at the rate of one calculation per minute, eight hours a day, a quadrillion calculations would take about a year. All that to generate one single response.</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
</table>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
<table class="m">
|
||||
<tr class="info">
|
||||
<td>If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies</td>
|
||||
<td>Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares</td>
|
||||
<td>Casual</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr>
|
||||
<td class="snippet">And how many families would still own an original biological dog, we wonder, if with biotechnology you could make a synthetic sort of dog that was just as bouncy and cuddly and cheerful, and never threw up on your couch or got sick and tragically died? If it's just an option being offered in pure imagination and theory, it's easy to say no, when you don't have to pay for that in stained couches and crying children. But we wouldn't bet on conventional dogs being popular a hundred years later if those sorts of dogs come onto the market.<br>Similarly, human beings are not likely to be the best version of whatever the AI wants - if those preferences even involve keeping something vaguely human-shaped around, if it even has any preferences like that at all.<br>We would not be its favorite things, among all things it could create.</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
</table>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
<table class="m">
|
||||
<tr class="info">
|
||||
<td>The Myth of Artificial Intelligence</td>
|
||||
<td>Erik J. Larson</td>
|
||||
<td>Academic</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr>
|
||||
<td class="snippet">We can summarize these positions about AI and people as follows. <i>Kurzweilians</i> (mythologists about AI, full-stop) wax mystical about machines after the Singularity having consciousness, emotions, motives, and vast intelligence... <i>Russellians</i> want to keep <i>Ex Machina</i> in movies, downsizing talk about superintelligence to more mathematically respectable ideas about general computation achieving "objectives." Unfortunately, Russellians tend to lump human beings into restricted definitions of intelligence, too. This reduces the perceived gap between human and machine, but only by reducing human possibility along with it.</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
</table>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
</html>
|
||||
</html>
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
|
|||
<!DOCTYPE html>
|
||||
<html lang="en">
|
||||
<head>
|
||||
<meta charset="UTF-8">
|
||||
<title>At least ten books by women about feminism and violent misogyny</title>
|
||||
<link href="./style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
|
||||
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
|
||||
<meta name="author" content="Vane Vander">
|
||||
</head>
|
||||
<body>
|
||||
<h1>At least ten books by women about feminism and violent misogyny</h1>
|
||||
<table class="f">
|
||||
<tr class="info">
|
||||
<td>Right-Wing Women</td>
|
||||
<td>Andrea Dworkin</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr>
|
||||
<td class="snippet">Refusal to give the tool of literacy is refusal to give access to the world. If she can make her own fire, read a book herself, write a letter or a record of her thoughts or an essay or a story, it will be harder to get her to tolerate the unwanted fuck, to bear the unwanted children, to see him as life and life through him. She might get ideas. But even worse, she might know the value of the ideas she gets. She must not know that ideas have value, only that being fucked and reproducing are her value.</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
</table>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
<table class="f">
|
||||
<tr class="info">
|
||||
<td>Men Who Hate Women</td>
|
||||
<td>Laura Bates</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr>
|
||||
<td class="snippet">Men hurt women. It is a fact. It is an epidemic. It is a public health catastrophe. It is normal.<br>Over a third of all women worldwide have experienced physical and/or sexual violence (not including sexual harassment) at some point in their lives. One hundred and thirty-seven women across the world are killed by a member of their own family every day.</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
</table>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
<table class="f">
|
||||
<tr class="info">
|
||||
<td>The New Age of Sexism</td>
|
||||
<td>Laura Bates</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr>
|
||||
<td class="snippet">Isn't there something incredibly depressing about designing a whole new world and not being ambitious enough when it comes to women's safety to aim a little bit higher in the first place? Just like women-only train carriages, rape alarms, and anti-rape underwear, all we are met with are hundreds of drearily repetitive, victim-blaming "inventions" that reinforce again and again the societal notion that women should be on the alert constantly - constantly responsible for their own safety. Wouldn't it be nice to dream of a virtual world in which hypervigilance isn't taken as a given at the ground floor?</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
</table>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
<table class="f">
|
||||
<tr class="info">
|
||||
<td>I Hate Men</td>
|
||||
<td>Pauline Harmange</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr>
|
||||
<td class="snippet">It's true that not all men are rapists, but it's also true that <a href="https://archive.ph/https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/tables/table-42">almost all rapists are men</a> – and almost all women have or will suffer some kind of violence at the hands of men. That's where the problem lies.</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
</table>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
<table class="f">
|
||||
<tr class="info">
|
||||
<td>Pornland</td>
|
||||
<td>Gail Dines</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
<tr>
|
||||
<td class="snippet">The messages that porn disseminates about women can be boiled down to a few essential characteristics: they are always ready for sex and are enthusiastic to do whatever men want, irrespective of how painful, humiliating, or harmful the act is. The word "no" is glaringly absent from porn women's vocabulary. These women seem eager to have their orifices stretched to full capacity and sometimes beyond, and indeed, the more bizarre and degrading the act, the greater the supposed sexual arousal for her. The women who wander through this world are, whether they know it or not, all whores by nature, as they all have a price, often as low as a few bucks (as in "Every bitch will suck cock for a few dollars" or "This slut will do anything for rent money"). Even though these women love to be fucked, they seem to have no sexual imagination of their own: what they want always mirrors what the man wants. This may explain why women in porn spend enormous amounts of time giving men oral sex, yet they rarely expect or demand reciprocity. Actually, the only demands they seem to make involve asking the man to thrust harder and harder.</td>
|
||||
</tr>
|
||||
</table>
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
</html>
|
||||
Loading…
Reference in New Issue