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</div><p></p><p>This is one such requisition by the US military for mine/bomb disposal.</p><p>My sister worked for Stonebelt for 9 months, and in her experiences they do NOT know what theyre doing. And theres not much choice either in participating - refusal of a military part contract is tantamount of refusing services from the org.</p><p>This is the shit I'm angry at. Ive tried to put pressure publicly. No dice.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/crankylinuxuser/statuses/116488901245765344</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/crankylinuxuser/statuses/116488901245765344</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:19:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:13:50 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/curator%40mastodon.art" rel="nofollow noopener">@<span>Curator</span></a></span> </p><p>And I'm here in Bloomington Indiana, and the primary organization here who serves the mentally disabled is called "Stonebelt ARC".</p><p>ARC is 'association of retarded citizens'. This is still on their nonprofit incorporation and property deeds across the county.</p><p>However as terrible as 'retard' is, the absolute worse part is that Stonebelt places their mentally challenged clients to a US gov weapons manufacturing line. </p><p>I care more about actual abuses, and not nearly as much 'bad names'. I have enough anger for actual abuse actions. Its hard for me to care that much with elementary school level 'he said a bad name'.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/crankylinuxuser/statuses/116488878879085298</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/crankylinuxuser/statuses/116488878879085298</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:13:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:59:09 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/curator%40mastodon.art">@<span>Curator</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/hejchristian%40front-end.social">@<span>hejchristian</span></a></span> I've also tried to get into the habit of using "wilfully ignorant", since being ignorant isn't any kind of failing ... but staying such intentionally I'm fine with calling a failing &gt;.&gt;</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/melindrea/statuses/116488821080321148</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/melindrea/statuses/116488821080321148</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[melindrea@beige.party]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:59:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:57:46 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/melindrea%40beige.party">@<span>melindrea</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/hejchristian%40front-end.social">@<span>hejchristian</span></a></span> ooh those are good</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Curator/statuses/116488815664840021</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Curator/statuses/116488815664840021</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[curator@mastodon.art]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:57:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:54:28 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/hejchristian%40front-end.social">@<span>hejchristian</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/curator%40mastodon.art">@<span>Curator</span></a></span> I'm a fan of "absurd" and "surreal"</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/melindrea/statuses/116488802678967283</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/melindrea/statuses/116488802678967283</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[melindrea@beige.party]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:54:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:49:37 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/tock%40corteximplant.com">@<span>Tock</span></a></span> Exactly - and this helps immensely when it's something like political figures that you're trying to convince someone else is bad. Saying 'Trump is an idiot' doesn't explain what he does or who he is, and his supporters are using the exact same language to talk about people on the opposite side of the political spectrum. It's useless.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Curator/statuses/116488783653102954</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Curator/statuses/116488783653102954</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[curator@mastodon.art]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:49:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:45:37 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/curator%40mastodon.art">@<span>Curator</span></a></span> The human tendency to have a single word instead of a phrase to attack something.</p><p>I may have slipped here and there, but I try not to attribute human qualities to the output anymore, knowing it is a word selection algorithm.  It's not "stupid" because it is completely incapable of thinking. (Picking the most probable word in the world corpus of written things is not thought.) It doesn't lie because it is inherently designed to fail (it isn't hallucinating or bullshitting, it is still generating words even though they are all wrong.)</p><p>That is what I have been leaning on lately.  Describe the problem, don't summarize.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://corteximplant.com/users/Tock/statuses/116488767909551655</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://corteximplant.com/users/Tock/statuses/116488767909551655</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[tock@corteximplant.com]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:45:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:29:49 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/curator%40mastodon.art">@<span>Curator</span></a></span> :] nice</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://woof.tech/users/konstruct/statuses/116488705749066150</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://woof.tech/users/konstruct/statuses/116488705749066150</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[konstruct@woof.tech]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:29:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:23:19 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/konstruct%40woof.tech">@<span>konstruct</span></a></span> yup! <img src="https://board.circlewithadot.net/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f604.png?v=28325c671da" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--smile" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":D" alt="😄" /></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Curator/statuses/116488680237197673</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Curator/statuses/116488680237197673</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[curator@mastodon.art]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:23:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:03:47 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/curator%40mastodon.art">@<span>Curator</span></a></span> let's picture Sam Altman does something very aggravating :</p><p>incompetent (?)<br />cheap<br />unreasonable<br />shocking<br />too much x / too little x<br />disgusting<br />degrading<br />frustrating<br />flabbergasting<br />detestable<br />childish (?)</p><p>He would be a(n) :</p><p>asshole<br />jerk<br />creep<br />dirtbag<br />nuisance<br />bootlicker<br />billionaire (to me that's just an insult even if you don't have a billion of whatever currency)<br />&lt;thing&gt; bro (i.e. AI bro)<br />prick</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://woof.tech/users/konstruct/statuses/116488603384081120</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://woof.tech/users/konstruct/statuses/116488603384081120</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[konstruct@woof.tech]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:03:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:46:30 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/terribletowelie%40mastodon.social">@<span>terribletowelie</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/curator%40mastodon.art">@<span>Curator</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/cairobraga%40gts.cairobraga.com">@<span>cairobraga</span></a></span> </p><p>if you copy/paste it into the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/alttext" rel="tag">#<span>alttext</span></a> of your image, your toot will likely get more boosts.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/inclusivity" rel="tag">#<span>inclusivity</span></a></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/saltywizard/statuses/116488535441891177</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/saltywizard/statuses/116488535441891177</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[saltywizard@beige.party]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:46:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:40:24 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/saltywizard%40beige.party">@<span>saltywizard</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/curator%40mastodon.art">@<span>Curator</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/cairobraga%40gts.cairobraga.com">@<span>cairobraga</span></a></span> when you write that does it talk to the people?</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116471267231765652/statuses/116488511437602280</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116471267231765652/statuses/116488511437602280</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[terribletowelie@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:40:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:34:43 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/terribletowelie%40mastodon.social">@<span>terribletowelie</span></a></span></p><p>a cartoon showing two spiders. one is laying flat with its legs extended. the other says, 'don't be an asshole, steve." (the flat spider resembles a simple drawing of a butthole).</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/alt4you" rel="tag">#<span>alt4you</span></a> </p><p> <span><a href="/user/curator%40mastodon.art">@<span>Curator</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/cairobraga%40gts.cairobraga.com">@<span>cairobraga</span></a></span></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/saltywizard/statuses/116488489128131152</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/saltywizard/statuses/116488489128131152</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[saltywizard@beige.party]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:34:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:13:49 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/curator%40mastodon.art">@<span>Curator</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/cairobraga%40gts.cairobraga.com">@<span>cairobraga</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/saltywizard%40beige.party">@<span>saltywizard</span></a></span></p>

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That's on me, I shouldn't have clicked.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://front-end.social/ap/users/116449593039464077/statuses/116488342498040144</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://front-end.social/ap/users/116449593039464077/statuses/116488342498040144</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[hejchristian@front-end.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:57:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:53:08 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/hejchristian%40front-end.social">@<span>hejchristian</span></a></span> Heh, yeah, nuts is also a word used to describe people with mental health conditions <img src="https://board.circlewithadot.net/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f615.png?v=28325c671da" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--confused" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":/" alt="😕" /></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Curator/statuses/116488325577512325</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Curator/statuses/116488325577512325</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[curator@mastodon.art]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:53:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:50:43 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/curator%40mastodon.art">@<span>Curator</span></a></span> Wild! yeah that works <img src="https://board.circlewithadot.net/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f642.png?v=28325c671da" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--slightly_smiling_face" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":)" alt="🙂" /> I was gonna say "that's nuts" but then... no, I'm fairly sure I've heard that used as a slur.</p><p>Thanks again! <img src="https://board.circlewithadot.net/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/263a.png?v=28325c671da" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--relaxed" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title="☺" alt="☺" />️</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://front-end.social/ap/users/116449593039464077/statuses/116488316096941280</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://front-end.social/ap/users/116449593039464077/statuses/116488316096941280</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[hejchristian@front-end.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:50:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:47:10 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/hejchristian%40front-end.social">@<span>hejchristian</span></a></span> Oh, yeah, crazy and mad are both candidates.</p><p>I use 'wild' where I'd previously have used words like that, it kinda conveys the same tone <img src="https://board.circlewithadot.net/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f642.png?v=28325c671da" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--slightly_smiling_face" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":)" alt="🙂" /></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Curator/statuses/116488302116897867</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/Curator/statuses/116488302116897867</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[curator@mastodon.art]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:47:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:46:34 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/curator%40mastodon.art">@<span>Curator</span></a></span> </p><p>I suppose "crazy" would be considered part of the list, similar to #2? that's one I find myself tripping over sometimes and have tried to avoid. and when I grew up in the UK it'd be quite common to hear "mad" used in a similar way.</p><p>"that's crazy/mad" </p><p>Thinking about it, I struggle to find a word that I could use in such an example <img src="https://board.circlewithadot.net/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f605.png?v=28325c671da" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--sweat_smile" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title="😅" alt="😅" /> But I will try! <img src="https://board.circlewithadot.net/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f4aa.png?v=28325c671da" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--muscle" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title="💪" alt="💪" /></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://front-end.social/ap/users/116449593039464077/statuses/116488299802501091</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://front-end.social/ap/users/116449593039464077/statuses/116488299802501091</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[hejchristian@front-end.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:46:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:34:58 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/curator%40mastodon.art">@<span>Curator</span></a></span> <br />TIL, thank you <img src="https://board.circlewithadot.net/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f49c.png?v=28325c671da" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--purple_heart" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title="💜" alt="💜" /> </p><p>I had sometimes used #2 (not towards a person, but to describe something happening), #3, #4, and #7, </p><p>but hadn't really given it much thought before that it would be ableist language.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://front-end.social/ap/users/116449593039464077/statuses/116488254191071497</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://front-end.social/ap/users/116449593039464077/statuses/116488254191071497</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[hejchristian@front-end.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:34:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:31:07 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/terribletowelie%40mastodon.social" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">@<span>terribletowelie</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/curator%40mastodon.art" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">@<span>Curator</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/saltywizard%40beige.party" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">@<span>saltywizard</span></a></span> this JUMPSCARE was uncalled for.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.cairobraga.com/users/cairobraga/statuses/01KQCPZAJC5KJPFXT92Z2AJ9WY</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.cairobraga.com/users/cairobraga/statuses/01KQCPZAJC5KJPFXT92Z2AJ9WY</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[cairobraga@gts.cairobraga.com]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:31:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Can we please not with all the ableist language I&#x27;m seeing around discussing AI (and anything, really)? 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