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I feel like, why can't people just say 'Israel'? Anyone who's opposed in good faith to 'Zionism' basically means 'the Israeli government and its policies', so say that. Then there's no room for misinterpretation or misrepresentation. And if they *don't* mean that, then they should say so too.

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unfortunately i can't reply in the way i'd like from my work email address

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oh great, now i have some random ‘AI’ startup asking for permission to include ‘my’ work in their slop machine firstly it's MIT licenced, which the email references and should be sufficient answer; secondly it's not my decision anyway, which should have been obvious from the very same file.

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these things always make me feel like I’m in front of a board covered in red string.

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an llm tic I’ve been noticing recently is something like ‘a phrase: one X, no Y, no Z’. it’s a bit more specific than the grouping of three things, but it’s also so vague that it obviously could just be (and presumably does) appear in non-LLM writing too.

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Right. Like, I really dislike the idea that adding '/s' or whatever should be necessary. If someone is aware of the existence of irony then maybe they should read posts as if it was at least possible that irony was being applied. Even if they can't tell!

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And besides, as I’ve said elsewhere, it’s simply not true that it’s impossible to avoid using LLMs (unless you expand the definition of ‘use’ into meaninglessness).

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Sure. I did acknowledge that a bunch of people took it that way. But a bunch of people also didn’t take it that way, so it can’t have been all that clear, can it?

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Hi OP. Have you seen how we're communicating right now? It's via a computer interface. HTH. Bye.

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Github actions are such a horrible interface. Why should I have to deal with breaking changes and a mandatory Node.js version update for something that amounts to `git tag "${1}"`?

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Yeah, somewhere I saw the claim that for reasonable performance you need 32GB of VRAM or alternatively 96GB of normal RAM. I don't know how true that is, though, but if accurate that doesn't exactly sound like a practical alternative.

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There are a bunch of people who read it this way, and a bunch of people who read it a different way. I think at best that OP did not make their point as well as they think they did.

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Obviously if you’re already experienced with so-called ‘agentic’ LLM setups then maybe it’s less of a leap but as far as I can tell right now the whole thing just pushes you into the Anthropic/OpenAI dependency and the purported availability of local models is a figleaf.

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Yes. OP said ‘use’. If they meant that someone else uses it and you’re indirectly exposed to the output they should have said so. I don’t think ‘Bluesky moderator uses AI, you use Bluesky, therefore you have used AI’ is a reasonable interpretation.

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I would disagree that it’s either difficult or dishonest to criticise something you have no experience with — if you mean first-hand experience from use. It’s perfectly possible to know about a thing well from learning about it without using it.

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But it’s simply not true that it’s hard to find a critic who hasn’t used it in the last week. It’s just not that hard to avoid using LLMs.

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‘We’? Your communication skills are your problem, not mine.

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Have you just not met people who don’t use “AI” before? It’s really not as difficult to avoid as you’re suggesting. But I get it, you posted something fake-profound on the internet, people read it in the obvious way, and now you’re getting defensive about it.

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I mean, I know you’re claiming that, but it seems to be based on a false premise.

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you’re not as clever as you think you are.

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So, the fact that LLM companies are going out of their way to make their products difficult to avoid invalidates critiques of those products? I’m not sure you’ve thought this through.

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Said blocklist has also caught a bunch of pro-nuclear-weapons people iirc.

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Took a peek at a thread on Bluesky about support for Palestine by the Green Party and somehow every single one of the people taking Israel’s side was someone I had muted via a shared blocklist of transphobes. Weird coincidence! But convenient.

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So now I’m wondering if it’s worth just fixing it as-is, or whether to try to revive the Django version. Now that Mosscap exists, the need to migrate feels less urgent (though I do still like Django anyway).

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I have a Rails app where I am the only user, and months ago I broke one of the forms and still haven’t gotten around to fixing it. (Since it’s just me, I can always just do the specific update in the console instead.)

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ben @eskola.uk · 03/10/2026

Are you feeding only the abusive interactions into the LLM, or are you feeding all of them in? If the latter, then it’s clearly not opt-in. And if the former, it’s not clear to me what the LLM is adding, because you already know it’s abusive.

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The person who is alleged to have murdered Ann Widdecombe is now also being charged with terrorism offences. No specifics appear to be given; I assume it must have been a very strongly-worded cardboard sign.

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ben @eskola.uk · 02/10/2026

there’s no such thing as a Nobel prize in economics that’s because the Nobel prizes are for things that contribute to the good of humanity

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ben @eskola.uk · 02/10/2026

just saw someone refering to ‘Nobel-winning economists’. I wonder what they won their Nobels in.

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the eff has some sort of anti-big-tech campaign going on, listing ‘ai training on my data’ as a negative thing, which is weird because i’m pretty sure the eff is de facto in favour of big tech companies training their LLMs on everyone’s data

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why have you made a link within a page rely on javascript, you freaks

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that's not strictly true. all sorts of random things are not working, because there's no end to the list of basic browser functionality that react weirdos will unnecessarily override and break.

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had no choice but to install noscript. and nothing of value was lost.

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