NickThe whole internet loves Cory Doctorow, a lovely author that uses Fedi!
*5 seconds later* I regret to inform you the author said a thing that I can’t be arsed to read up on but apparently a lot of people are mad, I dunno.
Coles Street Pothole@Nickiquote Did Cory Milkshake Duck himself?
@ColesStreetPothole Cory Ducktorow more like. Apparently, kinda, in the eyes of some people.
David Penfold 
@Nickiquote @ColesStreetPothole What "terrible" thing did he say (briefly)?
@davep @ColesStreetPothole see here: https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/
Acting ethically in an imperfect world
Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]
@Nickiquote @ColesStreetPothole
I think the problem is kind of with "people taking his word as gospel". I don't. He's a very smart chap but obviously wrong in his rationalisation here, but I've got Ollama on my PC too, with deepseek etc running locally. My disdain for LLMs is more about the concentration of power and the fact the hype train is going to hit a brick wall because it can't deliver on the investment while these characters walk off into the sunset with vast riches and the economy causes banks to stop lending, affecting most in society as broad money availability contracts. But these smirking AI evangelists will be fine in the ruins as small companies fold due to the systemic issues with our monetary system.
And running Ollama locally is just akin to a poor parlour game to me. If he wants to use it, fine, just don't make up specious arguments to justify yourself.
@Nickiquote @ColesStreetPothole
Dagnabbit, I took it seriously 🤪
Probably time for bed...