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Dawn Ahukanna (dahukanna@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 03:27:02 JST Dawn Ahukanna

Starting a new hashtag - #tyrannyOfAesthetics
Aesthetics sits firmly in attention grabbing, novelty trend & transient pace layer but governs most decisions because we can’t tolerate boredom or boring-https://longnow.org/ideas/pace-layers/
1. Reinventing XMPP protocol (plumbing) for instant messaging. This is like reinventing HTTP everytime you create a web application-https://gultsch.social/@daniel/115751087451745641
2. Reinventing software packaging & distribution (logistics), 1 computer language at a time-https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/115751055245955928

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  Dawn Ahukanna (dahukanna@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 03:26:59 JST Dawn Ahukanna
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  Related:9-Don’t think & decide yourself, only follow instructions of others.
  “In 1941 book, Escape from Freedom, German psychoanalyst Erich Fromm argued that the rise of fascism could partly be explained by people preferring to surrender freedom in exchange for reassuring certainty of subordination. AI-LLM (produces information but without necessarily deepening human understanding) offers new way to surrender burden to think & decide for yourself.”
  - https://mastodon.social/@andrewstroehlein/115784707689297472
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    "In his 1941 book, Escape from Freedom, the German psychoanalyst Erich Fromm argued that the rise of fascism could be explained in part by people preferring to surrender their freedom in exchange for the reassuring certainty of subordination. AI offers a new way of surrendering that burden of having to think and decide for yourself." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/26/ai-dark-ages-enlightenment
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  Related:10-outcome “too good to be human talent (or exceeds your novice knowledge or skill level), then it must be Oi👁️”
  ‘We are in time where actual artists being accused of AI work
  -physical artist with amazing talent & imagination, booted from Cara
  -film industry DP photographer defending posts on IG, has amazing sense of colour & composition.
  Take a breath before accusing humans of being too good at what they do=how AI is dumbing users down.’
  - https://mastodon.social/@CStamp/115783838519998286
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    Carolyn (@CStamp@mastodon.social)
    
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    We are in a time in which actual artists are being accused of AI work. An artist was booted from Cara for his “Ai” work - he is a physical artist with an amazing talent & imagination, no AI. Now a photographer who posts on IG is defending his non AI photography. The guy is a DP in film industry, has an amazing sense of colour & composition. Folk need to take a breath before accusing humans of being too good at what they do. When they talk about how AI is dumbing users down, this a part of it.
  Rich Felker repeated this.
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  Related:11 - “answer shaped objects” or responses don’t always contain valid answers, “quelle surprise”?
  “It has been unpleasant realising just how many people consider “answer-shaped objects” and “answers” to be the same thing.” - https://eigenmagic.net/@abstractcode/115795215226319814
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    @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social It has been unpleasant realising just how many people consider answer-shaped objects and answers to be the same thing.
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  Dawn Ahukanna (dahukanna@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 03:27:00 JST Dawn Ahukanna
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  Related: 7c - “Because I have fiercely protected my authorship throughout my life and what my name is attached to, any generative AI writing that purports to be in my voice without my informed consent is a profound violation of my authorial voice, agency, and frankly it feels like fraud or impersonation.”
  - https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/
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  Related: 7d - “As an archivist who has spent almost twenty years thinking about accuracy in information, it makes my skin crawl that there is a metadata field with the sole purpose of generating SEO-engagement purporting to be my voice that doesn’t disclose the authorship was actually non-consensual AI.”
  - https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/
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  Related:8-But something else responsible for a large & steadily increasing share of public knowledge production, also has no organic reality-detection capability=large language model(LLM). This is central to what we mean when we argue that LLMs destroy knowledge: that for every verifiably accurate account of the world, LLMs produce a Borgesian library of superficially plausible alternates–sufficiently plausible that effort & energy must be invested #tyrannyOfAesthetics
  - https://social.coop/@adamgreenfield/115771986742330648
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    But there’s something else in our lives which is responsible for a large and steadily increasing share of public knowledge production, and which also has no organic reality-detection capability, and that’s the large language model. This is central to what we mean when we argue that LLMs destroy knowledge: that for every verifiably accurate account of the world, LLMs produce a Borgesian library of superficially plausible alternates – sufficiently plausible that effort and energy must be invested
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  Dawn Ahukanna (dahukanna@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Dec-2025 03:27:01 JST Dawn Ahukanna
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  Related: 5. Thread on “Cognitive Recall Atrophy - CRA” - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/115756945829133248
  Related: 3.1. This reply - https://toot.cat/@zygmyd/115752235523994274
  “This is really fascinating. Every single person in a company that ships AI-emitted code, policy, product, and so on will be an outsider. The managerial experience of having first hand knowledge of exactly none of the work going on and still being accountable but for every employee.”
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    1/ Thinking about “every1 must use AI” mandate (large language model-LLM-predict next word ‘calculator’). 1. Calculators atrophied practice of mass taught mental arithmetic skill, as it’s faster, more accurate+reliable than most humans 2. Keyboards atrophied practice of mass taught handwriting skill, as it is faster, more legible+reliable than most human handwriting 3. LLMs atrophy practice of mass inherent cognitive inference pattern matching ability, as it is faster, less accurate+unreliable
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    @dahukanna@mastodon.social @benjamineskola@hachyderm.io @davidcelis@xoxo.zone This is really fascinating. Every single person in a company that ships AI-emitted code, policy, product, and so on will be an outsider. The managerial experience of having first hand knowledge of exactly none of the work going on and still being accountable but for every employee.
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  Related: 6-mindbending addiction amplification or why a qualified attorney would knowingly destroy an entire law firm and 3 other lawyers careers -
  ‘An attorney couldn't stop using Grok (?!) to help draft filings, producing "a flood of tainted filings" & apparently triggering the implosion of a law firm & 3 lawyers' careers 🤖😵 The court called her misconduct "particularly egregious & prolific"’- https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/mississippi/msndce/1:2024cv00074/49169/79/0.pdf
  https://techpolicy.social/@ericgoldman/115758771102887176
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  Related: 7a - “Instead of having a hot divorcee Saturday night instead I wrote about how after announcing my divorce on Instagram, AI impersonated me in a hidden metadata field. Fuck the techbro oligarchs. https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/“
  - https://glammr.us/@TeamMidwest/115754711143502617
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    Instead of having a hot divorcee Saturday night instead I wrote about how after announcing my divorce on Instagram, AI impersonated me in a hidden metadata field. Fuck the techbro oligarchs. https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/
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  Related: 7b - “But what I vehemently object to in this situation is the use of the first-person voice without my review or permission. The language used in the description makes it sound as if I wrote it (“In this post, I share my personal journey…”).”
  - https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/
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  Related: 3.related Illusion of scaler speed ≠ dimensional velocity - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/115751407204010708
  Related: 4. Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation, the economics of attention - https://www.joanwestenberg.com/comfort-food-for-the-thinking-class-the-great-intellectual-stagnation/ via https://mato.social/@josemurilo/115751054614151022
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    Wander into any bookstore (I dare you.) The non-fiction table will be all but dominated by the usual suspects: Malcolm Gladwell's latest exploration of how some counterintuitive thing is actually the opposite of what you'd expect, a David Brooks meditation on character and virtue, something by Michael Lewis about how
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    @benjamineskola@hachyderm.io Reading “The thing that particularly made me realise the speed up was illusory was realising I didn’t actually understand the code it had generated.” This experience of “not understanding the code generated” is the experience of the majority of people-everyone else, in a business depending on that code you wrote. “So how hard can it be to outsource generating code words”? It’s been done in marketing copy, HR, etc. Why not resource expensive & limited code “copy”? @davidcelis@xoxo.zone
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    "The #neweconomy of #ideas is much more directly dependent on attention, which means much more directly incentivized toward whatever captures #attention… A confident hot take generates more #engagement than a careful analysis that acknowledges #uncertainty. The old system rewarded people who could produce a good book every few years; the new system rewards people who can produce a constant stream of content that keeps audiences #engaged." https://www.joanwestenberg.com/comfort-food-for-the-thinking-class-the-great-intellectual-stagnation/

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