"Capable LLMs require a logic of dominance and of disregarding consent of the people producing the artifacts that are the raw material for the system. LLMs are based on extraction, exploitation and subjugation. Their politics is violence. How does one “liberate” that? What’s the case for open source violence?"

(Original title: Acting ethically in an imperfect world)

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 […]

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@tante Oh, people are discovering that Doctorow is shifty and superficial? What a shocker!

@alper @tante I saw someone saying a version of "you say one thing wrong" about this and no, many things, and also, the head on him.

It may be superficial to say, but the absolute head on him.

@davey_cakes @tante He has a function but I stopped reading him after a couple of his books in my youth which were all the same book.