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Serious risks are built into these tools; they are prone to imbalance, abuse, and exploitation of the weak. Rather than pretending to risk nothing, XF advocates the necessary assembly of techno-political interfaces responsive to these risks. Technology isn't inherently progressive. Its uses are fused
with culture in a positive feedback loop that makes linear sequencing, prediction, and absolute caution impossible. Technoscientific innovation must be linked to a collective theoretical and political thinking in which women, queers, and the gender non-conforming play an unparalleled role.

Response
This also resonated with me. Working in tech, I've seen the narrow point of view from the majority in the tech industry who make these apps. With AI, the barrier is a lot lower to create an app, that anyone can create something if they had the will to. Why is the marketing for these tools claim they are so powerful they will take our jobs? For whom is this fear intended for, to discourage people to hate or not use these tools? And who benefits from this fear?

Technology in itself is a tool, and what it does depends on who is wielding it. Tech itself is not going anywhere and I see it today it as a major driver in how politics and culture is shaped. Despite it's risk, it's riskier to not do anything despite it inevitably becoming part of our lives. Everytime there is new tech, again, always a select few that take advantage and shape it. I feel like i've seen this in the internet, with mobile, and with social media. With this next wave, marginalized communities need to have a voice at the table in order to shape it.

Xenofeminism
A Politics for Alienation
Laboria Cuboniks

Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. It is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within that interdependency of difference strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters.

Response
as a person of color, this resonated with me. There have been so many times looking back where in places where I've felt like I was tolerated, but not necessarily valued for the difference in perspective, opinions, or experiences.Acceptance is not passive, but an active exercise to be practiced. Our differences are what make us stronger, and knowing this we can move forward in creating a better future.

I worked on a project once where did research on users for a social media site. They would use the site for group organization, dating, or to keep up with friends. safety never crossed my mind. As a cisgendered, middle-class man, i had the luxury of not thinking about it in most environments. But violence against women is real, and it's a constant, exhausting calculation that women, especially those in lower-income neighborhoods, have to make every single day. speaking with women within those communitiies made me realize the blind spot I had. The more we know, the more we can help support on become stronger together.

Class notes
- One thing that was brought up was with Audre Lorde's readings was not necessarily the master's tool will not dismantle the house, but more like the master doesn't use any tools, the workers do. - if the workers aren't working, the master can't use the tools. and we can use the tools if we aren't getting sustenance from the masters house. The tools that Audre is talking bout is different from the tools that Audre is talking about

The digital is also physical - data centers, internet cables, etc...