Tootfinder

Homelessness is not a moral failure or an accident of fate, it is the direct result of capitalist property relations. Under a system where land, housing, and production are privately owned, the working class is alienated from its means of existence. People are cast into the streets not because scarcity is real, but because profit determines who deserves shelter.
The solution is not charity or state bureaucracy but the abolition of private property in housing and the collective organiza…

AI for Abolition? A Participatory Design Approach
Carolyn Wang, Avriel Epps, Taylor Ferrari, Ra Ames
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07156 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

AI for Abolition? A Participatory Design Approach
The abolitionist community faces challenges from both the carceral state and oppressive technologies which, by empowering the ruling class who have the resources to develop artificial intelligence (AI), serve to entrench societal inequities even more deeply. This paper presents a case study in participatory design with transformative and restorative justice practitioners with the goal of designing an AI system to support their work. By co-designing an evaluation framework for large language mod…