broadly there are two ways you can react when a system you are enmeshed with deals you a moral injury: you can acknowledge both that enmeshment and your own culpability and work to atone for that and to halt future harm, or you can work backwards from "but i'm good, i don't do bad things" and set to work making the bad thing Good Actually until you're totally morally disoriented and find yourself allied with the people burning the world.
you always have that choice.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260323113630/https://www.wired.com/story/the-rise-of-the-ray-ban-meta-creep if there is anyone in your life who owns the Facebook Sex Offender Glasses then you absolutely need to have the hard conversation with them now. we need to stamp this shit out and hold the line hard because society will become unimaginably worse if this gets normalized. we did it before with google glass but they're spending a lot more to make fetch happen this time.

*sigh* A pinned post, apparently necessary: I do not consent to have the posts I make on this account, or any of the other accounts I control on here (see the "bots" page on my website), be ingested by any LLM-based system for any purpose whatsoever. If I find out you've disregarded my consent here I'll publicly identify you as having done so and instantly block you and possibly your instance as well.

degrowthers and anti-car folks looking at the International Energy Agency's "sheltering from oil shocks" advice like the Jack Nicholson Nodding Lustily GIF

https://missionlocal.org/2025/10/s-f-launched-an-ai-chatbot-for-rv-dwellers-its-got-errors offering people facing homelessness, in lieu of an actual human service worker, a chatbot that gives them wrong answers that may be the deciding factor in whether they end up homeless is an act of such profound cruelty everyone who set and implemented that policy should be ashamed.