Crypto bros used to tell me crypto was good for the environment because its energy demand would drive adoption of renewables. I am starting to see AI bros make the same case.

In addition to being observably wrong, this is like saying a higher cancer rate is good because it drives health care.

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(Please boost for Science.)

@mattblaze 100%. I know this word gets thrown around very casually here, but I think it fits: I can think of almost no pursuit that is more overtly fascist than policing who is allowed to share knowledge. Keep it up!

When AI boosters talk about universal basic income to excuse all of the jobs they claim they can eliminate, ask:

“Then why are you working on AI, and not on universal basic income?”

If you are a journalist in this space and you don’t ask this every time UBI comes up, you are not doing your job.

Nobel committee is really pissed now that people have figured out that anybody can give a peace prize.

I've seen a few people put content warnings on their "looking for work" posts.

I recommend you DON'T do this. Not everyone who comes across your post will bother to expand it. Worse, content warnings prevent your post from appearing in Trending lists, limiting your reach.

I'm not sure what purpose a CW would even serve here—if someone finds the fact that you're looking for work offensive or traumatizing, that's a them problem, not a you problem.

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Try to conduct your personal affairs in such a way that, should your private life ever be made public, people won’t be debating the definition of “pedophile.”

Why does your website say, “Sign up for an account to continue” and then forget what page I was on as soon as I’m through the signup process?

Did your server walk into a room?

DEI programs have caused about as much harm as werewolves have.

Some people on Mastodon really make use of the Edit button, and others are like, “No regerts!”