Kent PitmanFeb 22

I put up a new blog essay, The Tedious Pained, a defense of the legitimacy of technical & social critiques of "AI" tech, even as positives are claimed. Positives don't cancel negatives, in other words.

Well, it's only new if you didn't see it as a comment on someone else's post a bit ago at LinkedIn. This is me just giving it a better placement and a name for later reference. And perhaps a wider audience.

https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-tedious-pained.html

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The Tedious Pained

A defense of the legitimacy of technical & social critiques of "AI" tech, even as positives are claimed. Positives don't cancel negatives.

Show threadscrewlisp

@kentpitman that was an incredibly succinct and scathing reply.

> “Get used to it,” in other domains of injustice, has not aged well.

I think the perma.computer open letter with many signatories several years ago is now at risk of being overlooked about what then the current LLM thing literally did:

PERMACOMPUTER
Computing sustainably since 2023
gemini://perma.computer
gopher://perma.computer

1st sigs, Sunset and jns gemini://arcanesciences.com gopher://gopher.linkerror.com

Feb 22 at 10:39pmWeb
Show threadscrewlispFeb 22
@kentpitman it is funny that Alphabet Corporation chose to name their chatbot gemini in a name collision with its protocol.