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we must dissent
fix your hearts or die
NYC→Berlin expat
fringe weirdo in tech who doesn’t like "AI"
coding is a creative act
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I shot over 7000 photos yesterday at Rad Race (a friend of mine podiumed 3rd in the W field 💖🔥). Burst mode goes hard but worked out for the event.
Now I’m realizing last time I processed this volume of photos I relied on proprietary software. What do people recommend these days? (RAW, shot on Fuji X-H2s w/ some primes)
Every AI article is basically this kind of excuse:
“I’m going to ignore the moral, ethical and privacy implementation of AI and just focus on the practical. Morally and ethically, AI is a train wreck. But I’m not going to focus on that.”
(I think this particular article meant implications but I’ll stick with an unedited quote.)
I doubt it’s just me but practically speaking, social issues are not just practical but include the excluded categories. This is extremely impractical discourse.
It’s depressing to see the effects of slop on tools on a daily basis. It’s making be double down on rejecting lots of ecosystems I’ve been a proponent of. This includes Rust and beam languages like Elixir, Gleam.
It’s painfully obvious that there is are motivated groups that want to pull out all stops to make vibe coding the new normal. Them being burnt out on coding isn’t a failure of human coding. It’s incentives that reward selfish behavior and it’ll kill personal computing.
@zzt The AI industry are desperate to make it inevitable, like the car or the internet, even as it ruins lives and breaks things that existed for decades and worked better without it. They need to control the discourse on the topic and have tried and failed at lumping people with legit concerns in with the Skynet doomerists, so now we're on to 'both sides!' faux centrism to try and guilt people with any sort of social conscience into being quiet so not to upset the 'poor people who just want to live their lives' by pointing out how the profit driven life worsening engine is being used to ruin lives for profit.
If people give up and allow AI bros to control the narrative, they will never let go of that control. Google have applied an AI filter to internet search, Elon has created a white nationalism filter for Twitter and a nazi version of Wikipedia, Oracle now have TikTok and an increasingly large chunk of the traditional media and Zuck has consumed the souls of everyone old enough to have voted for Reagan, we can see what they're doing and shutting up about it will only make it easier for them to get away with it.
If the past twenty years have taught us anything, it's that shutting up and accepting things only leaves the door open for worse things.
Neil Brown
Rycochet
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