[object Object]Mar 12
“I’m just so exhausted by both sides of the AI argument” imagine being the kind of piss baby that sees a mass of people who are righteously furious at a system designed from the top down to fuck them over, and decides the anger is just as much of a problem as the exploitation
Show thread[object Object]Mar 14

oh cool yet another “I’m exhausted by all the anti-AI anger” post got boosted onto my feed

please don’t let anyone gatekeep your own anger away from you, especially when your ability to exist and to make a living are both under active attack. if you’re angry because of LLM-enabled war crimes, the loss of our software commons, or any of the other wrongs the AI industry has started that never stopped, you aren’t wrong. you don’t owe the people enabling and forgiving this stuff your kindness.

Show threadJPMar 14
@zzt there's a certain mindset that wants to always classify anger as noise, muddying signal and making it harder to "see clearly", and if you do otherwise then you're intellectually/epistemically compromised and "letting anger drive you". but really anger is information, it's social and emotional feedback. and if enough people are angry about something that's a sign that something important is happening and deserves a non-dismissive response.
Show threadJPMar 14
@zzt ok since this is getting visibility i probably need to clarify: this does not mean i believe the anger of misogynists, racists, transphobes etc is "valid". it simply needs to be understood so it can be countered and neutralized.
Show threadSofia ☭🇧🇷☭
@jplebreton @zzt people who say that they're anti-anger because bigots are angry at marginalized people will absolutely stab the marginalized people they claim to support in the back as soon as those marginalized people get angry at bigots. This is toxic positivity pretending to be progressive
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@sofiav @jplebreton @zzt

thank you

Show threadCat!Mar 15
@sofiav @jplebreton @zzt The people who have the privilege of not being angry love to smugly style themselves as 'enlightened' but there is in reality something enormously animalistic about failing to respond to content and responding only to tone.