Audre Lorde's "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." is not just a statement about a tool being tainted by its origin. It's about what kind of tool a "master" would create: Whips. Chains. Violent suppression.

That's the meaning: You cannot just take tools whose purpose and politics is dominance and violence and "make them liberatory". This goes deeper than "just" embedded politics or lofty talks about ethics, it comes down to what kind of relations you believe do and should and must not structure the world.

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Hey guys I wrote this short story twelve years ago, but oops it came true. It's a dark look at the AI lifestyle, and it hits so many notes.

I would very much appreciate any boosting you might think warranted.

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AI image generation is a sort of accidental by-product of AI image recognition. Someone wondered "Hey what if we run this thing in reverse?" And it kinda worked.

Same for AI text generation. It's based on running a text recognizer in reverse.

In both cases the original project is useful, and the reversed version is harmful.

STOP RUNNING AI IN REVERSE

Let me predict the future for you:

- Oil stays above $100/barrel for a few days
- Trump panics as his poll numbers continue to drop
- Trump claims military victory via insane, rambling 2am Truth Social rant
- U.S. troops withdraw from Iran
- Mysterious day-old accounts somehow predict the exact day on Polymarket and make millions
- Israel is left holding the bag in a forever war with Iran which your tax dollars continue to fund
- Ayatollah's son gets a 40 year reign courtesy of your tax dollars
- Trump and Hegseth bomb Cuba next
- Trump starts claiming he "ended 9 wars" now