Mastodawn

Okay. Here it is. A quick note on that new "AI declaration".

Which is mostly just a bit clueless but which also assembled some of the most vile people on the planet for a bunch of scientists and activists to put there name next to.

If your tent is big enough for fascists, it's no longer a tent but a concentration camp in the making.

https://tante.cc/2026/03/05/nothing-to-declare/

Nothing to Declare

Making big public statements is always fun and people who think themselves to be important love doing it as a way of trying to influence public opinion and/or politics. They are a way for institutions and individuals to organize and try to shine some light onto important issues. We’ve seen many such things in the […]

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David Fleetwood - RG Admin Mar 4

@tante Appreciate the repeated reminders about the fascists. Yes, first you take them out then you resolve your differences.

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⁂ L. Rhodes Mar 4

@tante I'm tempted to argue that getting respectable folks to put their names next to fascists is actually the point of declarations like this. Put out a statement you know people are eager to endorse in order to smuggle demagogues into the conversation. If that's the trick, then it's discouraging how often it works with this group.