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 threadStrider Uwe 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽
@kentpitman One tiny nit, trodding is not quite standard. Treading? But no disagreement with the post
Feb 22 at 10:43pmWeb
Show threadKent PitmanFeb 23

@UweHalfHand

Hey, thanks for reading my piece and taking the time to comment. I do take your point, but I'm gonna leave it and lean on the idea that dictionaries track usage. Call it poetic license on my part if you want something more fashionable than ignorance. Ha.

People do not learn languages from dictionaries, they go there to settle disputes. And dictionaries track word use, so usually settle those arguments. But as a consequence, language changes because of just this kind of shift as you cite, and I kinda like "trod" as the verb, even as I see what you're saying.

I was beginning from downtrodden and inferring the base word, which is what people do when they learn language. Sometimes someone corrects them early enough, and sometimes it's just there forever. :)

It's a slightly different effect in play, but from an appropriate number of meta-layers above, it's the same issue as you might see in this account:

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-norange.html

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