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Its really like. "I can't believe you free software folks who use copyright as a weapon against big companies, accept degraded quality of service to avoid giving big companies power over you, use old computers to avoid having to use software you don't trust, are largely broke, and whose main weakness is clinging too hard to communities that have demonstrated their toxicity... ... don't want to spend vast sums to give huge companies, who use copyright as a weapon against individuals and communities, much more power over you in exchange for dubious promises of convenience! Obviously it's just *tribalism*."

> The A in AGI stands for Ads! It's all ads!! Ads that you can't even block because they are BAKED into the streamed probabilistic word selector purposefully skewed to output the highest bidder's marketing copy. Ossama Chaib, "The A in AGI stands for Ads" This is another huge reason I refuse to "build skills" around LLMs. The models everyone points to as being worthwhile are either not public or prohibitively expensive to run locally, so incorporating them into my workflow means I'd be making my core thought processes very vulnerable to enshittification. #ai #agi #llms #capitalism #enshittification

It's almost beautiful how consistently AI hype makes people we already knew to be clowns, openly act like clowns. Just recently we have Casey Newton misleading people about his Mastodon instance, which he used AI to set up, and then getting mad when he got called out about it; and now there's Moxie Marlinspike making "end-to-end encrypted AI". Sure bro

What's the vibe on #Reticulum, folks? #decentralized #meshnetwork

I increasingly think that what we culturally conceptualize as being a programmer is a lot less about knowing or using a programming language and a lot more about knowing how to use the whole computer instead of just the parts that have been nicely packaged for you by the corpos or volunteers

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