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   Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jul-2026 13:47:34 JST Glyph

   why do you think those venture capitalists are subsidizing this thing. do you think that they are hoping that you will just increase the collective social value of the commons, and rejoice? https://mastodon.social/@juliank/116974045503028965

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jul-2026 13:47:24 JST Rich Felker

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     @miss_rodent @glyph You could have stopped at the first 14 words. 🤷

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     V (miss_rodent@girlcock.club)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jul-2026 13:47:29 JST V

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     @glyph For fuck's sake, can we just lock all the tech bros in a room with some basic intro-level ethics and morality books, and not let them out until they can form a coherent ethical position about fucking anything.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jul-2026 13:47:33 JST Glyph

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     I tend to believe that "superintelligence" is a meaningless term and "AGI" is functionally unachievable (certainly with the current generation of technology), but nothing makes me believe in the superintelligent machine-god than Them sending Their time-traveling agents to tell us all, wild-eyed and panicked, that we have a "moral imperative" to use a specific product to achieve a specific goal

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     V (miss_rodent@girlcock.club)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jul-2026 13:47:33 JST V

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     @glyph "You have a moral imperative to start another forest fire! Particularly while you can still exploit the free and subsidized matches!"

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jul-2026 13:47:34 JST Glyph

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     this is not me saying that the VCs are particularly good at predicting outcomes. this is a "house always wins" situation.

     a) it doesn't work, but you get dependent on it for achieving the same result; your skills atrophy, they jack up the price, they make a ton of money, they win

     b) it works TOO well; you actually get way out ahead of proprietary alternatives and start harming their bottom line. they jack up the price so much that only proprietary alternatives can afford it, they win

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jul-2026 13:49:26 JST Rich Felker

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     @glyph Funny how the different ways of being awful always come together.

     I have a profile note for this person:

     "Apologist for abusive hosting provider actions"

     IIRC they were arguing that it was just fine that a hosting provider wiped somebody's stuff.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jul-2026 13:52:33 JST Rich Felker

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     @glyph OK wow that thread attracted a bunch of peak corporate-FOSS douchebags.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jul-2026 13:53:50 JST Rich Felker

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     @glyph @miss_rodent Yeah they're such fans of 14 words they should be fine with that, right? 😈

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jul-2026 13:53:51 JST Glyph

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     @dalias @miss_rodent yikes that is a very unfortunate coincidence