David Gerardhow hard do you have to fuck up posting to turn into a main character on *mastodon*.
RootWyrm 🇺🇦
@davidgerard which of them? Because one of them demanding Mastodon make room for AI bros and explicit fascists is <checks notes> the official Mastodon non-profit's "senior product advisor."
David Fleetwood - RG Admin@rootwyrm @davidgerard Eugen is doing a heel turn now?
@reflex @davidgerard nope, Eugen started the other main character by telling him basically "I'm not the manager, dipshit."
@rootwyrm @davidgerard Yeah, my bad for not reading further down the 800+ posts of my timeline first lol. I purposefully stay away from here on weekends so monday is a bit confusing. My bad!
@reflex @davidgerard all good! The instigating incident:
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116357625749597464
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116357625749597464
David Gerard (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image the AI bros are OUTRAGED and wish to speak to the MANAGER
@rootwyrm @davidgerard A bit of a tangent, but the idea that "mastodon is hostile to AI" as though that's some odd thing when polls show the public is overwhelmingly hostile to AI leads these bros to question Mastodon/fedi and what needs to happen to change that sentiment, vs them asking the real question: Why do other social networks not demonstrate the hostility to AI that masto/fedi do given that the latter seems to align with public sentiment?
Ie: the complaint is the lack of manipulation.
Troed SÃ¥ngbergI'm guessing part of the problem is that you really believe "the public is overwhelmingly hostile to AI" to be true?
It's difficult to ask, for example, public European institutions to consider Mastodon when having read the comments to this post by Mozilla:
@troed @rootwyrm @davidgerard I mean I'm not going to do your homework for you, but the most AI friendly polls have consistently shown this to be true. Furthermore, the responses to that post are very indicative of why fedi absolutely should be considered, it's more aligned with public sentiment than algorithmic corporate platforms.
No, this has not consistently been shown to be true. You might think so because Mastodon - really - is a little weird bubble here.
I'll take my own profession as an example. I'm a very senior software dev turned cybersec. Walk outside of Mastodon and there's no question whatsoever that LLMs are _useful_ both in software dev and as both reverse engineering and red teaming agents.
Here's Linux kernel devs:
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/greg_kroahhartman_ai_kernel/
Bagder of cURL fame says the same thing.
If you really believe differently I'm sorry but you're ... out of touch.
@troed @rootwyrm @davidgerard Dudebro, my career is verifiable, I spent 11 years off and on at Microsoft in several roles including Windows kernel engineer, I spent 8.5 years at Amazon including being the architect of the "AI" driven network we used for the AmazonGo stores. I have tons of former colleagues in both places.
They do NOT agree with your experience and are miserable having to 'prove' AI's usefulness to execs for the quarterly reports.
It's shit. The emperor has no clothes.
I didn't source _my_ experience now, did I? What were my sources again?
Here's Bagder from today: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116354106408236089
Or let's take a well known writer just now:
@troed @reflex @davidgerard uhhuh, love the intentional deletion of context and refusal to discuss or accept any facts. While trying to argue with some of the leading experts in the world.
So what, are you a sock puppet for some slop peddler child? Or just a worthless slop peddler desperate to preserve your self-esteem as you get completely and utterly destroyed on the Internet?
@rootwyrm @troed @davidgerard What's amusing to me is that while it can definitely damage a career to speak against AI publicly, it does not require you to actively seek out discussions on it and debate people pointing out why it sucks.
@reflex @davidgerard gotta love slop gobbling clowns that insist they are entitled to sealioning with multiple experts.
Including one of the guys who helps journalists unwind all the fun, fabricated, fantastical financials, hardware hilarity, infrastructure idiocy, and data center dishonesty.
Who also happens to have done stuff with real NN since the 90's.
@rootwyrm @davidgerard Watching colleagues promote this who I know know better, including in private conversations we've had in the past couple years has been disheartening. I get keeping your head down to protect your job, but actively cheer leading for what I assume is a chance at a promotion is incredibly unethical.
Even if the tool did all the things they say, it's built by fascists, pushes fascism, and consumes resources exorbitantly. We have an obligation to reject it.