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   Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 10:29:11 JST Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖

   https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

   It's me, I'm nutso!

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 10:29:10 JST Anil Dash

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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.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 14:47:08 JST Anil Dash

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     • Iris

     @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!

     Matthew Lyon repeated this.
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     Iris (iris_meredith@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 14:47:09 JST Iris

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     • Anil Dash

     @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

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     Kevin Riggle (kevinriggle@ioc.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 14:47:09 JST Kevin Riggle

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     • Anil Dash
     • Iris

     @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?

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     Iris (iris_meredith@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 14:47:11 JST Iris

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     • Anil Dash

     @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.

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     Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 14:47:11 JST Neo-Rodneyite ✍🏿📖

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     • Anil Dash
     • Iris

     @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

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     Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: (janl@narrativ.es)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 23:54:39 JST Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:

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     • Anil Dash
     • Kevin Riggle
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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.