To wit, AI products such as LLMs:

• Are primarily developed under eugenicist philosophies, and primarily financially benefit fascists.
• Are trained on uncompensated and nonconsentual labor.
• Require unconscionable and unsustainable levels of energy and water waste.
• Are used to undermine labor rights, such as the power of artists to say "no" to unconscionable demands.
• Necessarily consolidate and centralize power.
• Present unacceptable risks due to disinformation and other errors.

"Don't use AI because it's bad" is possibly not a nuanced or complex position.

"Don't use AI because it's bad due to this list of careful considerations" is a nuanced and complex position by construction.

"Somewhere along the way, buying a car became a right to public storage.

Nobody voted on it. It just became the default. You purchase a private vehicle, the city provides the space to leave it. On public land. For free. As a matter of course.

Miguel Anxo Fernández Lores, Mayor of Pontevedra, said it differently: buying a car is like buying a refrigerator. Where you put it is your problem, not the city's.

And hen he acted on it. Pontevedra removed cars from its city centre in the late 1990s. No bypass. No demolition. Just a decision to stop treating streets as private parking lots.

Pedestrian deaths fell to nearly zero. Air quality improved. The city didn't hollow out. It filled up.

The harder part was what came before it. A politician willing to say out loud that the city doesn't owe you a parking spot.

That's still the rarest thing in urban planning."
Uncredited post my partner sent me.