Resorting to ableism to describe oppressive forces or individuals also reinforces associations of disability with wrongness, undeservingness, eugenic threat, unbelonging, evil. It also fails to recognize how these oppressive systems operate unnamed under 'competent' administration all the time. 3/
When oppression goes unnamed, it becomes mystified, made invisible, individualized, made a flaw of personal character or intellectual faculties rather than a system that becomes institutionalized and reproduces itself through people who benefit from its functioning. 2/
"Stupid", "insane", "moronic" and other such terms are stand-ins for ideologies and systems of domination- white supremacy, imperialism, capitalism, patriarchy- that are embodied and acted out by actors of the fascist regime. When people can't name these systems, they resort to base ableism. 1/
For a start you need to get informed abt Prairieland. People making noise outside an ICE detention center hit with "ant!fa" terrorism charges. This is intended to have a cooling effect. If you can't care about this I don't expect you got what it takes to really resist
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whenever someone says "ai is good at coding now" it makes me assume their methods of evaluating whether software meets its claimed behaviour are not very good. as in they do not know how to falsify claims
The way people try to get me into LLMs is like the way that the drug education of the ‘80s said that people were going to try to get me into drugs
We’re this close to “people criticized my use of the slop machine, so I became a Nazi”
The persecution complex that LLM users have is incredible. Like all conservatives, they don’t just demand they be allowed to harm others, they demand active approval and praise for their harmful behavior.
"daddy only hits you because you cry" is the reactionary centrist theory of american politics
What do I need to do to get on more “AI haters” block lists? I’m only on two of them and I feel like I deserve greater recognition as an AI hater.
Ooh, I’ll have to read that
Not only is the work more boring, now there’s more of it!
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a toilet flooding forever and anyone who tries to fix it getting called a Luddite
The way the tech industry is going makes me wonder if I should go to nursing school after all. I’d rather wipe asses than prompt an LLM.
I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you
Slept in my Mountain Goats shirt and I woke up new
whenever folks talk about harry potter and separating artist from art they always have this indignant 'OH SO IM A BAD FOR BUYING THESE BOOKS?' but thats not the real issue. the reality is that many will BELIEVE you are bad, and that is VALID. its not your choice what others think of you
@suchnerve “I don’t want to wear a mask all the time” Alright. Would you please wear it sometimes? Sometimes > never. Like just keep one in your bag, and put it on when you’re in an extra crowded place maybe?
A classic anti-masker tactic is to claim that if you don't wear a mask 100% of the time, it isn't worth it. Untrue. Every single time you wear a mask, you reduce the chances for viruses to spread. Wearing a mask always improves public health, even if you only do it occasionally.
hearing someone say they regularly talk to ai chatbots for anything does feel like they just rolled up their sleeve to reveal a festering zombie bite
It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.
it's baffling to me that people who know how to program computers seem to think it's fine that software merely gives the appearance of working, rather than actually working. it's really easy for software to look like it works when it doesn't, because its internal workings are really important
the reaction to every "we built X with LLMs" story needs to be "how have you verified it". it's way too easy to spin hype out of simulacra of working software that turns out to be garbage. they're running the newspaper correction playbook
Interestingly, I found this out because he was replying-guying one of my current coworkers about LLMs
tfw one of the people who harassed you and your coworkers is a therapist now
Wondering if he tells his clients to kill themselves
GenAI is the *anti-compiler*.
It destroys the ability to reason about what a program is doing, it destroys the ability to construct a mental model of it, it hammers to absolute dogshit the ability to maintain and extend it.
Grace Hopper would smack these dipshits unconscious.
The most useful political distinction to pay attention to in my experience is asking whether children and young adults are most likely to suffer harm from people inside or outside their family. Only people who say “inside” are sensitive to power dynamics that matter
It’s easy (more easy than accurate) to dismiss academic critics of generative AI as uninformed or emotive, which is often anyway code for “moralizing.” But it’s remarkable how much gen AI boosterism requires feigning ignorance that theft and impersonation are widely seen as wrong, for good reasons.
By the way, if someone is serving for the United States military, it is a bit old fashioned to say "thank you for your service", perhaps try instead: "you are a traitor to the human race."
If you smell toast, you might be having a stroke... a stroke of luck that is. It’s toast time.
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