@scottjenson I do not want mastodon to become more amicable to right wing ideas. The more hostile this place is to Nazis and AI and the manosphere etc the safer it is for people like me. See the parable of the Nazi bar etc. This is an inherent concept to queer spaces. You cannot make a space safe that welcomes both sheep and wolves. Keeping the wolves out is a feature not a flaw
Apr 6, 2026, 3:47 PM@danirabbit @scottjenson Amen Danielle. I'm generally a people-pleaser, let's-all-get-along person in real life - to my own detriment.
AI boosters and propagandists? I have zero patience for it and block. If that's mean, too bad I guess. They'll never know.
Apr 7, 2026, 6:12 AM@danirabbit @scottjenson This. I do not think it's even slightly an exaggeration to say that AI is, in its present and marketed form, fascist. It is good when fascists aren't allowed in the room, actually.
@xgranade @danirabbit @scottjenson
Exactly. AI harms marginalized and protected classes the most, including the environment and life itself. It’s not unreasonable to decide to not invite death to dine with us. It is poisoning the food.
It is literally a life or death decision people are making for the world to suffer or survive under. People need to take responsibility and have consequences for their carelessness to community. AI is anti-social in its current form. It must be stopped.
@JoBlakely @xgranade @danirabbit @scottjenson
“In its current form” is the key phrase.
Reflexive rejection of emerging technology in its totality is self-defeating.
We need a mass political movement to shape it toward pro-social ends. That means steering it toward scientific and research use-cases, stringent regulatory guardrails, and hardcore trustbusting.
It’s only a fascist technology if we let the fascists control it.
@JoBlakely @xgranade @danirabbit @scottjenson
I know that this is a majorly heterodox position on the left right now but we are in the midst of a climate emergency (since well before the AI data center boom) so bad that literally billions of lives (mostly in some of the poorest nations on earth) and untold suffering depend on mitigation, and it is a moral imperative to use every technology available (yes including AI) to help save as much as possible.
@Jakenke @xgranade @danirabbit @scottjenson take a look at one version that it could be used for Buckminster Fuller’s World Game - a concept global problem solving & resource and energy management.
I just posted on an example. But until their data is created and assessed ethically, wholistic, with regard to its impact, then it’s not worth the cost when gathering diverse competent people together is a far superior and effective way of problem solving.
@JoBlakely @Jakenke @xgranade @danirabbit @scottjenson Exactly. Virtually nothing posted by AI techbros will be relevant to our needs.
I feel the same way about AI that Freeman Dyson did about GMOs. He argued that they might be useful if developed in local, open-source community biolabs in varieties suited to low-input intensive horticulture and agriculture, like a faster and more extreme version of traditional climate-hardy varieties. But virtually all adoption of GMOs right now, and all media and political discussion of them, involves proprietary versions developed for integration into large-scale agribusiness using heavily subsidized irrigation and fertilizer inputs, on enormous tracts of stolen land.
@JoBlakely @xgranade @danirabbit @scottjenson
I agree with you in theory, I wish all the nations of the world could all just get together and cooperate on mutually beneficial solutions. It’s the obvious rational route for everyone. But our best attempt at doing so (COP) has been a near total failure. Ideal solutions are useless without political will.
@Jakenke
All theory, no praxis makes castles in the air, illusions & Ponzi schemes, bubbles, and structures without integrity doomed to fail. They lack substance, are all facade.
@Jakenke @xgranade @danirabbit @scottjenson
We must not reward this iteration that does not care about the quality of input or output and doesn’t have the ethics or desire for equality to evaluate data quality.
Techbros are in a circle-jerk bubble within a reality and investment bubble. It’s currently a castle in the air with no sustainable or healthy foundation for humanity to survive alongside it.
But I do see uses similar to Buckminster Fuller’s World Game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Game
@JoBlakely @xgranade @danirabbit @scottjenson
Hadn’t heard of that before. Very interesting read, thanks.
@Jakenke @xgranade @danirabbit @scottjenson
AI made it exponentially worse just as we were making progress with solar, wind, etc. it derailed progress. That is why it is so terrible. It is not a scapegoat it is a cause. It did not build a foundation for its own sustainability before it was thrust upon us prematurely. They fired their ethics people. They can’t profit from it without it infecting everything.
What it actually is being used as is a Maxwell’s Demon. It must be stopped.
@JoBlakely @xgranade @danirabbit @scottjenson
Scott, it seems like you are making yourself crystal clear.
Having values is not an "ideological purity test". Attacking having values as "ideological purity test" is itself a value -- a fascist one.
Do we need to make Fedi a safe place for vitamin hucksters? For horrible cults?
Do you understand the idea that some things are *toxic* to communities?
https://webcomicname.com/post/185588404109 , over and over again.
No one owES fascists a platform.
Again...
NO ONE OWES FASCISTS A PLATFORM.
This is the only place that Gates and Musks lackies aren't running. We like this way.
I know there's a lot of discussion of badjacketing and that discussion is valid, but people are often right when calling this out, and groups often get it right, and at this point, it's pretty blatant, even if you personally cannot see it.
If you feel more comfortable on Bluesky otoh, please feel free to step off.
@JoBlakely @xgranade @danirabbit @scottjenson bro wants to make another LinkedIn
@danirabbit @scottjenson I certainly agree on the manosphere and Nazis. I do think AI and crypto types should be free to express their ideas -- but they shouldn't be surprised or whine when they get dogpiled by people criticizing and rebutting their ideas, either.
I spend most of my social media time on Bluesky, and the typical pattern is for centrist, neoliberal, or Atlantic bedbug/Harper's Letter signatory types to show up and post "hot takes"; then, when their shitty takes get exactly the kind of response anyone with any sense would expect, they go away and whine on X or in some NYT/Atlantic op-ed about "incivility" and "bubbles" until their next drive-by post on Bluesky.
@KevinCarson1
Incivility is bad actually.
@danirabbit @scottjenson
@danirabbit @Em0nM4stodon @scottjenson I can see that this would upset the wolves, who feed upon the sheep.
But social media wolves are SO not something I need to take care of. Excuse me, I have real relationshps and important issues to tend to.
Apr 7, 2026, 6:25 PM@danirabbit @scottjenson you are asking for an echo chamber. You are asking for this roundly hated bullshit that is being violently imposed on us to be prioritized by the individual poor bastards - like myself - running elephant network instances in the same manner as it is on fascist shitholes like Twitter
Apr 7, 2026, 6:26 PM@danirabbit @scottjenson you are demanding your ideology to be prioritized at the expense of everyone else
@danirabbit @scottjenson popper was right: if you tolerate intolerance, intolerance is all you get