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2026-08-08 14:22 UTC

@AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space i am seriously recoursing to the strongest example i could find of men taking a desperate last stand in the face of many others who would not, and did not let it go unpunished. despite the dramatic contrast in scale, as the other commenter points out, the basic act of «doing something» as a symbol of resistance even when it is known to fail except as a symbol, is the same in both cases. look, my comment worked because of its grotesque disproportion, it made you want to make fun of me =) i’ve been following you on fediverse for quite some time and usually enjoyed your posts; that is why i am suprized by this lack of understanding (it’s actually lack of desire to understand, since the idea is not complex): people who «refuse to use #ai» are not refusing to use llm-based tools per se; the refuse to use services built on others’ work without conscent or compensation, without respect for privacy, built with neglect to disastrous aftermath in education and politics, built with conscious displacement of extremely expensive externalities on societies, built for concentrating even more power to already overpowered few. sometimes, making others make a wry face by doing something se evidenlty «useless» is the only thing a person with ethics is left with.

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@primeapple@polymaths.social 2026-08-08 21:57

@tivasyk@awawa.club @AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space I just found this reply. I really like your argumentation. I want to stand behind you guys. I don't want more accumulation of wealth and power. I don't want a future where machine communication gets put above human communication. My general dislike of the whole #noai bubble comes from this totalitarism that they show off. An article with an AI generated picture? An commit by Claude? A vibecoded bash script? Why do we condemn the people doing that? Why can't we acknowledge that they do something in the first place? Why can't we provide better options, like open weight models, open source harnesses, AI assisted security scanning? We are making our bubble smaller everyday by excluding everything and everyone "impure". That's not how you win people over. That's how you become the wizard in the Ivory Tower, complaining about the evil world. #OpenCode is a fantastic example. They went very deep in AI assisted coding until they realized it's not what they gain joy in anymore. So they dialed back and looked for a compromise. Give people things they enjoy more than whatever the evil big tech companies provide. That's how linux became great. Not by telling everyone to boycot Windows but by providing a better alternative.

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