Post Aul9bXPBbcPab6n4Pg by anildash@me.dm
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(DIR) Post #Aul9bSuCKtFOdqGGYa by jalcine@todon.eu
2025-06-03T01:16:25Z
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https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/It's me, I'm nutso!
(DIR) Post #Aul9bTglQK5z4Sz3Fw by anildash@me.dm
2025-06-03T01:28:37Z
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@jalcine there are things in here that are directionally Not Even Wrong, but it still all falls into the category of “we need better AI criticism”. Everybody is talking past each other and punching straw men. Stupid.
(DIR) Post #Aul9bUKp1O8d4hj2h6 by iris_meredith@mastodon.social
2025-06-03T01:34:01Z
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@anildash @jalcine I mean, I have to ask here: what does good AI criticism look like? I've taken a shot at writing a bunch, but it feels as though the moment I stumble across something decent ("AI proponents are largely dumbfucks playing status games, so what they say about the technical guts of it is suspect at best"), it winds up being labelled as too much of a humanities thing and thrown out on those grounds.
(DIR) Post #Aul9bVChn3Evlow4gK by jalcine@todon.eu
2025-06-03T01:36:31Z
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@iris_meredith This is a big reason why I'm hesitant on writing anything longform. There's a strong want to keep these two things separate and IMO, this want to divorce any sort of humanities chat in tech has been brewing since the angst folks had for the main/master switch with Git. That was a low effort lift; this, according to the author, puts them "behind the curve of the vibe". @anildash
(DIR) Post #Aul9bVqPPQzzkxVmZE by iris_meredith@mastodon.social
2025-06-03T01:40:05Z
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@jalcine Goddess, that was bizarre, and I know exactly what you mean. Still, speaking as someone with some expertise in propaganda, the fact that LLM discourse is structured *exactly* like a propaganda campaign is hard to ignore. @anildash
(DIR) Post #Aul9bWaqcm964zErx2 by kevinriggle@ioc.exchange
2025-06-03T04:20:32Z
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@iris_meredith @jalcine @anildash It’s cultish behavior. Salvation is at hand! If you refuse the Machine God you face eternal doom! Don’t you want to be saved?
(DIR) Post #Aul9bXPBbcPab6n4Pg by anildash@me.dm
2025-06-03T05:46:46Z
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@kevinriggle @iris_meredith @jalcine yeah I don’t know why this post couldn’t have been “here are some things I am doing with this tool”. Like… Simon Willison does that every damn day, like a normal person. And then he says “and here are the fucked up things about the company that makes that tool”. Like a normal person!
(DIR) Post #Aul9bXxDZ5dMIeiFSS by janl@narrativ.es
2025-06-03T06:57:37Z
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@anildash @kevinriggle @iris_meredith @jalcine I don’t understand why “the fucked up things this company does make me not even wanna try what the tool they sell is good for” is not an acceptable position.
(DIR) Post #Aul9bZUDrrd33JA7Xc by jalcine@todon.eu
2025-06-03T01:32:44Z
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I had more to say on the AT side: https://bsky.app/profile/jacky.wtf/post/3lqo4jb4ev225> Going to try to retire from the tech industry as soon as I can and move to something with a bit more self respect, tbh. Then again, I'm probably not the kind of person being addressed. Some of the stuff in this I agree with. But lol, I wish more folks paid attention to the nature of cannibalizing industries and how that's fucked workers over. [I also know for a fact that I'm not the smartest person in the room because I try to make sure I'm around folks who are.]
(DIR) Post #Aul9baNAZZa5nis0Bc by iris_meredith@mastodon.social
2025-06-03T01:42:14Z
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@jalcine @anildash I honestly can't help but feel that the tech industry's habit of ignoring any humanist element is downright inhuman. It's the kind of way of thinking that I'd imagine a chemical engineer in Nazi Germany would have to have had.