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   GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Jul-2025 13:18:15 JST GeePawHill

   I sure wish you wouldn't post LLM output.

   Not even to make fun of it.

   The fact that you're sharing it means that you're using it. The fact that you're using it means that you're counted as a user. The fact that you're a user means that you're helping extractive-capitalist con men steal money while simultaneously worsening the climate crisis.

   • Rich Felker repeated this.
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     curtosis (curtosis@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Jul-2025 13:19:20 JST curtosis

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     @GeePawHill It is also a cognitive hazard for people who read or hear it.

     It strengthens the brain’s tendency to interpret text *shaped like* intentional thought *as* intentional thought, thereby weakening its ability to distinguish them.

     And multiple studies have shown it happens even if you are aware of the effect.

     Practice cognitive hygiene, or at a minimum don’t spread the contagion.

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     nonlinear (nonlinear@social.praxis.nyc)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 09:31:09 JST nonlinear

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     • Tom Ritchford
     • ProgressiveLurker

     @ProgressiveLurker @TomSwirly @GeePawHill Mastodon is chockful of micro-celebrities huffing and puffing beyond their reach.

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     nonlinear (nonlinear@social.praxis.nyc)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 09:31:10 JST nonlinear

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     • Tom Ritchford
     • ProgressiveLurker

     @ProgressiveLurker @TomSwirly @GeePawHill Oh yeah. Thanks for pointing it out.

     Dude goes all puritan (don’t talk to me if you use this devious contraption), I call him out gently, and he blocks me.

     It’s all posturing, all the time. Another neoliberal turning systemic issues (that need to be discussed) into individual shame (silencing the discourse).

     Not on my feed, no-no. Glad you said it too.

     Ethan Black repeated this.
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     ProgressiveLurker (progressivelurker@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 09:31:11 JST ProgressiveLurker

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     • Tom Ritchford
     • nonlinear

     @TomSwirly @nonlinear

     @GeePawHill blocks on sight anyone who dare to disagree with him, so he deserves all the rudeness he gets.

     And by virtue of him posting on a public network, and being upvoted so much he ends up in our timeline, we are free to interact with him (for as long ad his fraglity allows it ofc)

     You are welcome

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     Tom Ritchford (tomswirly@toot.community)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 09:31:12 JST Tom Ritchford

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     • nonlinear

     @nonlinear @GeePawHill I never really understood people such as yourself, who seem compelled to be rude to strangers who have offered them no harm at all.

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     nonlinear (nonlinear@social.praxis.nyc)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 09:31:13 JST nonlinear

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     @GeePawHill You know open source, selfhosted LLMs exist, right?

     And by claiming they don’t exist (or matter) you’re mistaking oligarchs with the tools they use, right?

     Yours is a puritan take that only makes you feel good, moral. It’s posturing.