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   yoasif (yoasif@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2026 06:18:37 JST yoasif

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   @dalias @quarknova I don't actually believe that the bots can generate knowledge, but that is what we are told.

   The lie is revealed with the demand for real human knowledge.

   It isn't "malevolent capitalists" -- it is Wikipedia that has sold out its community: https://www.avclub.com/wikipedia-ai-partnerships-meta-amazon-microsoft

   If it is good for the goose, why isn't good enough for the gander?

   More precisely, why continue to contribute to Wikipedia when they have preemptively sold out the commons?

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   Alexander Karn (xankarn@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 10:41:30 JST Alexander Karn

   In the 1980s-2000s, conservatives railed against the postmodern left for fomenting the breakdown of norms and knowledge.

   But since the 2010s, it's MAGA and the alt-right who wage war on science, facts, expertise, and vetted knowledge.

   It's part of their authoritarian plan. No facts. No truth. No democracy.

   Defending democracy means unmasking the post-postmodern right as the nihilistic grifters and power mongers they are.

   This VOX piece got it right back in 2017.

   https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/2/16588964/america-epistemic-crisis

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   Tattie (tattie@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 01-Nov-2025 21:24:43 JST Tattie

   I studied Artificial Intelligence for four years, and I am not touching LLM AIs with a ten-foot pole.

   It's not really about the insane electricity demands, the water usage, tho that's a good reason. It's not even, if I'm honest, about the disastrous effect on the sum of all human art and knowledge.

   It's because a) I've studied enough AI to know it's a trick, a sort of linguistic illusion, and b) I've studied enough everything else to understand that I'm not immune to such illusions.

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   Alexander Karn (xankarn@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 04:00:19 JST Alexander Karn

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   Perhaps it’s time we lunatics admit our agenda.

   What I aim to smuggle into history—my revisionist agenda as it were—is democratic pluralism.

   This means there should be more than one perspective/voice when it comes to the production of historical knowledge.

   It also means that facts and narratives should be seen as doing ideological work, advancing specific concepts of national identity, and aiding or frustrating the struggle for justice.

   It means using the past to promote critical thinking.

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   Mallory's Musings & Mischief (malcircuit@thingy.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 08:26:22 JST Mallory's Musings & Mischief

   It's important to have a good understanding of how technology works.

   Not because getting a STEM job is valuable, or because technical knowledge is somehow more important than other types of knowledge.

   It's because the powerful will use your ignorance of technology against you.

   Systems are designed — out of necessity and intentionally — to constrain your choices. It's important to understand which constraints are technically necessary, and which are just there to exploit or control you.

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   A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆 (juliusgoat@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 22:04:06 JST A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆

   in reply to

   I don’t know how we knew about this game. I guess the way we knew all the other games; somebody told somebody who told everybody else. An older brother to a younger brother, maybe, just a sort of inheritance of tradition and knowledge.

   It was just a game. A playground game.