The LLM discourse on the Fediverse has really irked me the last few days.

Refusing to read writing made with the use of LLMs and refusing to give time to writers who use, promote or justify the use of LLMs is not purity culture, it's a boycott. It's a political act of withdrawing my time, resources and support for something that I find deeply morally wrong. It's protest. I have a choice and I refuse.

LLMs are exploitative, destructive, biased, mediocre parroting machines. Using them has a negative impact on the climate, the arts, the quality of the internet, the job market, the economy, the accessibility of electronics, even on skill development, creativity and mental health. LLMs are made and trained on the unpaid labour of millions -if not billions- of people who didn't consent. Their generic output litter the path to finding anything by true human creators.

Wherever I can, for as long as I can, I reject LLMs and anything that is related to them. I'm boycotting.

@pluralistic is exactly right - the opposite of fascism is solidarity. There's an incredibly important detail here, which you might spot if I say that the expression of solidarity is community, or even that the market alternative to capitalism is commerce.

These answers to the two-pronged problem of fascism/capitalism are not -isms.

Things like solidarity, community & commerce aren't belief systems, they're something we DO, WITH each other, not TO each other.

https://mastodon.social/@grheavyroller/115421519835143454

To recap the billionaire class war on working people:
•$100M on Trump golf trips
•$172M for jets for ICE Barbie
•$230M in DOJ payments to Trump
•$250M for a vanity ballroom no one asked for
•$40 BILLION to Argentina while our farmers suffer
•$117 BILLION in annual tax cuts to the super wealthy 1%
•$170 BILLION ICE budget to round up Americans like Gestapo

Meanwhile, this is a real actual headline in 2025 America under Trump:
•Trump admin warns of "insufficient funds" for food stamps