Brian Beach
haiku_brian@hachyderm.io
<p>Proud papa/dad/husband. Choral singer. Aspiring linguist. Software builder. Rotarian. Sometimes in Indiana, sometimes on Maui. He/him.</p><p>Opinions are mine, not those of any organization I'm associated with.</p><p>I boost posts (only after reading any attached link) if worth reading, not necessarily because I agree with it.</p>
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Post #4450702
I agree 100% with Bret Stephens today. If you're tempted to use an LLM to write for you, just don't. Writing exercises your brain. That's a good thing. "As [AI] becomes ubiquitous, it undermines not only our individual ability to write but also a society’s collective ability to reason, a culture’s inner capacity to create and everyone’s reason to care. " (gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/artificial-intelligence-ai-writing.html?unlocked_article_cod...
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Post #3958416
This is an example of the Overton window having moved too far. "it turned out that the ICE agents had been looking for somebody else" Law enforcement should not be killing anybody. It's irrelevant that they were looking for somebody else. If they had killed the person they were looking for, it's just as bad. Everybody deserves due process. Civil rights are for everybody, otherwise none of us are safe. #fascism #democracy #civilrights https://www.theguardian.com/comme...