you will never be amenable enough to the demands of a fascist tantrum to make it stop without selling your soul and becoming a fascist yourself.

there is no amount of compliance that is acceptable short of absolute indoctrination.

the more you bend, the more they push you down.

stop helping them!

People once again need to internalize that "generative AI" is a small subset of machine learning, that machine learning is a critical tool that you cannot run a site without past a certain volume Bluesky has long since exceeded, and that it is FAR more reliable than user reporting.

!!! yes!!!

reading "Why We Fear AI"

"When did Rage Against the Machine get so woke? Why can't they just stick to music?"

This is bonkers to me as a software dev. All the software source code & hardware specs should be free — with verifiable builds — and available to everyone to vet. Anybody should be able to buy a machine (at modest cost) and verify it matches the published specs/code. *at bare minimum*

you see this all the time with HRT. people know what hormones do! any semi-decent sex-ed program covers the topic! *doctors* sure as fuck know, but if a trans person looks at the effects and says “i want that,” suddenly the human body is an unknowable mystery, a frontier beyond our understanding

But, Benevolent Dictators For Life works so well for open-source software projects; what harm could there be giving a BDFL unlimited command of the world's largest military and militarized police force /s

The US prison system is already the largest prison system in the world. Now we want to double it to house "illegal" immigrants? How is this not concentration camps?