Mastodawn

Cory throws in his hat on the "separate art from artist" debate, apparently following up on @tante text https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/

Can't say I entirely agree with Cory, but it's a thought-provoking read (at least to me; same goes for tante's texts on that topic).

Pluralistic: William Gibson vs Margaret Thatcher
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/17/technopolitics/

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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semitone Mar 18

@leyrer @tante Humanity is truly doomed if people feel like they have to use an LLM for copyediting. Not only are there non-LLM tools for that but there is the option of writing more carefully, publishing less and/or hiring an editor.

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Peter

🧷Mar 19

@leyrer Thought-provoking, maybe. Agreeable, no. His argument is on the same level as “let's watch ‘The Fearless Vampire Killers’, it was made before Polański raped a 13 year old!”

Can a tool be liberated from objectionable inventors? Sure, but that would require the creation of the tool to be liberated as well. A glass cutter isn't a liberated tool until it can be made with artificial diamonds instead of child-labor mined blood diamonds.