Bard spotting on Bluesky 29 March 2025

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

Those who assume that since I work on drones, I must work on killing civilians:

did it ever occur to you that the people who work on stopping civilians from getting killed or oppressed with drones (like me) also need to know a ton of technical information about how drones work?

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

Yeah, that's what the word "civilian" means

I'm amazed at how many people use this text-based social media website who genuinely can't read

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

Do you think you'll get very far with stopping people from being harmed by novel technology if you refuse to learn anything about how that technology works?

Yeah, that's why I research drone technology for the explicit purpose of stopping civilian harm.

Search my name in case you doubt this.

vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.com):

In my experience this is, in fact, a common implicit knowledge commitment among a certain clade of anti-tech civil society activists

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

I hate it so much

vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.com):

Knowing things is politically and morally supporting those things. This is how knowledge works. The only way to empower yourself is through acts of intentional ignorance of the things that hold power over you.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

And with our thoughts, we make the wo— i am yanked offstage by a giant crook