mawhrin

kat marchán goes by she/they fwiw.

jesus fuck.

nothing formal, but the backlash to criticism is becoming absolutely disproportionate: for example, the person who made the list of slopware, kat marchán, was bullied off the social media by the slop merchants. this looks eerily similar to the right-wing braying about cultural war, where they call harassment any critique of their positions, and call a reasonable critique any harassment they do themselves.

(and just very recently the always very nice CTO and co-founder of the oxide company, a major rust shop, decided that shaming the promoters of the confabulation machines is not to be done at the company.)

think LLM agentic software.

seeing the furious reactions to shaming of the confabulation machine promoters, i can only conclude the shaming works.

It is, however, a sign that the situation is much worse than it was months ago, that fascism is progressing, and if this is the point at which someone not paying attention wisens up and goes “shit, we are moving towards a totalitarian nightmare” then good, welcome, grab a pitchfork.

oh, i'm not a pitchfork purist. anyone is welcome to grab one at any time.

i'm a bit conflicted here: on the one hand it's true that the american fascists are now escalating, buyoed by the feeling of being virtually untouchable, but on the other hand, this is not a distinct change of behaviour, it's that they basically widened their target group to include white people too.

the blm protests were fueled not by new knowledge or radically changed police behaviour after all, but by the wider availability of documentation (mainly phone videos).

(and on the gripping hand, extending brutal repressions to a majority group is a sign of escalation. but that only means that a large population of u.s. residents, i.e. the non-white ones, live and have always lived in a totalitarian state; the totalitarianism just wasn't evenly distributed until trump.)

my condolences; we've gone through similar with our previous cats, all rescuees, and even when you know it's the right decision, the pain is still there.

i'm so sorry. (tentative hug of support, if acceptable.)

also moskovitz is a bloody ai cultist, proselytising to anyone near at bluesky

you're either not understanding or misrepresenting valente's points in order to make yours: that we can't have nice things and shouldn't either want or expect them, because it's unreasonable. nothing can change, nothing good can be had, nothing good can be achieved. hence: nihilism.

an ex-crypto-and-nft-promoter, now confabulation machine promoter feels that the confabulation machine hate reached unreasonable levels. thread of replies is full of persecuted confabulation machine ~~promoters~~ realists.