luciole (he/him)

“A Guy Instead”, it’s in the title?

Good on you for owning up and best of luck. You did well being transparent about your process. I’m going to add two things about generative AI:

• Writing is thinking. If you’re interested in thinking, then be all means do it yourself. You don’t need to have perfect grammar, syntax and such. Lots of extraordinary authors don’t. Strive for improvement, don’t worry about perfection.
• Absolutely beware of generative AI’s biases. They may actually amplify their sources’ biases while occluding them. AI text is just rehashed human text, with all that it entails.

I’m not going to read in detail a text you can’t be assed to write in detail. From a glean I’ll say two things:

• Your alternative voices are basically all privileged white guys commenting carefully from the sidelines. How is that a counterbalance to Chinese activists literally disappearing? You know what it means to disappear in China, right?
• The common thread of your text is one massive, obvious false dilemma. It’s common knowledge that China is under a repressive regime, that the POTUS gives clear signals of envying such regimes, AND that democracy has issues. We can and do talk about all of them.

Of course let’s do Fordlandia again.

A remote servant, really? Is this how the tech bros aim to take the “illegal” out of “illegal Filipino domestic slave”?

Ed Zitron’s article about Microsoft’s cultish growth mindset makes sense here. Everything Microsoft is indeed recently being affected by on outbreak of rampant growths, not all benign. It goes directly against that familiar no nonsense vibe which lulled the user base & their corporate overlords into a sense of safety and comfort.

It might not be too late for them to avoid being devoured by the genAI fuelled feature outburst, but they really should be getting those lumps checked out. Russian roulette AI keylogger first and foremost. Gross.

Politics is more than partisanship, and what is meant by something being political isn’t necessarily that it aught to be affiliated to a political party’s position. It’s about making decisions in groups, status and power dynamics. It’s a very real problem among techs to cop out of the consequences of their actions upon society by stating being strictly apolitical, pointing to the narrow definition while occluding the most meaningful one.

I didn’t understand how the hell the “pro-life” crowd would cheer for IVF since it entails destroying plenty of embryos. Now I understand: it’s the opportunity for some good old fashioned eugenics.