ellie (slut arc) 🖤 
whoever the fuck decided that ecosia should have an llm generating answers to search queries should be shoved down the stairs and break something
the introduction of so-called "AI" into products whose users obviously and definitely Do Not Want It, such as ecosia or at mozilla, exemplifies the sheer soullessness of the nonprofit industrial complex. evidently the people making decisions at ecosia don't actually care about the environment, or being sustainable, or planting trees (which tbh is a very simplistic solution to a complex problem to begin with). No, to them ecosia is just a step on their career path like any other, and they're clearly more focused on being able to write "spearheaded introduction of AI at [company]" in their resume than they are on making good decisions that actually further the goals the nonprofit is ostensibly for.
The Nonprofit is a monument to the failures of liberalism
David Gerard@roadblock161_ it really is
as a veteran of decades experience at incompetent charities, i have a whole theory, which is that a really incompetent charity still monopolises its problem space and sucks the air out of the room for a hypothetical more competent one
if i had no ethics i'd get on the precise nonprofit grift path you outline
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@davidgerard @roadblock161_ The status of "we're a nice charity and can never do no harm 🥺 👉 👈 " also does a great job of deflecting criticism, both within the charity (i.e. to its volunteers/workers) and outside it.
And I suspect competent charities probably engage with awkward questions like how modern capitalism and the general fuckery of the ultrawealthy is the root cause of many social issues and you can't address that without getting 
​ political ​ . If you don't engage in those questions you piss off the ultrawealthy less