I screenshot this because I don't have the energy to throw myself into a pit of half-braindead liberal vipers this morning.
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@johnzajac thanks for this. Reminded me of this piece by lovely Tauriq, around the time people were punching Nazis in the face on the street (instead of electing them, giving them tour dates and the like)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2017/jan/31/the-punch-a-nazi-meme-what-are-the-ethics-of-punching-nazis@noodlemaz @johnzajac we regret to inform you that people were, in fact, electing fascists in 2017
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@noodlemaz @johnzajac we regret to inform you that people were, in fact, electing fascists in 2017
@ratsnakegames @johnzajac true, wasn't as long ago as I thought. Still, you should read it, I have it bookmarked for when the All Violence Is Equally Bad chumps come out
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@ratsnakegames @johnzajac true, wasn't as long ago as I thought. Still, you should read it, I have it bookmarked for when the All Violence Is Equally Bad chumps come out
@noodlemaz @johnzajac pretty sure i read it at the time
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I screenshot this because I don't have the energy to throw myself into a pit of half-braindead liberal vipers this morning.
But this *entire thread* is incredibly important, because it's why Donald Trump is president.
This is a thread about how liberals destroyed the world.
@johnzajac As the saying goes, "liberals are like dogs: they only understand tone but not the substance".
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I screenshot this because I don't have the energy to throw myself into a pit of half-braindead liberal vipers this morning.
But this *entire thread* is incredibly important, because it's why Donald Trump is president.
This is a thread about how liberals destroyed the world.
@johnzajac Full alt text:
Screenshot of a thread on Masto.
Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life) says:
Mastodon as a community is quite hostile to Al and anything that isn't a criticism of Al is viewed with skepticism at best and typically with hostility as the default.
It's unfortunate because, as in your Mozilla example, there is still time to shape how Al is used in our industry. It's better to engage and try to influence it versus stick your head in the sand and have the change thrusted upon you.Evan Prodromou (@evan) replies:
well, bless their hearts for posting through it. There are some more troubling threads in their stream, especially when they highlight team members.Shauna GM (@shauna) replies:
It is unfortunately very easy to convince yourself that abuse and harrassment are OK as long as they're in service of a morally just cause.Scott Jenson (@scottjenson) replies:
There you have it. My concern in a nutshellTop post is dated April 5th 2026.
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But that's not even the most planet-destroying liberal thing about Scott Jensen's takes on "AI" discourse on Mastodon:
He also thinks that "AI" propagandists are just like Black people facing racism here and that excluding AI zealots is *the same* as not creating safe and positive spaces for maginalized people.
It's literally one of the whitest, most liberal posts I've *ever read*.
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@johnzajac Full alt text:
Scott Jenson (@scottjenson) says:
As this conversation is spiraling a bit I want to make a few things clear:
1. I'd like Mastodon to be MORE inclusive and bring in more voices
2. Some people don't seem to want that
3. This is core problem to solve: How do we let more in, but not “pollute” your feed?
4. The solution is not "gatekeeping", revelling in the fact that Al journalists aren't welcome
5. This is the same reason we lost "Black Twitter" when it came over in 2022Yes, a lot of you don't want AI posts in your feed (or pick any other topic) but the solution isn't to keep "Al People" from joining Mastodon, any more than it is keeping marginalized communities off of Mastodon.
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@johnzajac Full alt text:
Scott Jenson (@scottjenson) says:
As this conversation is spiraling a bit I want to make a few things clear:
1. I'd like Mastodon to be MORE inclusive and bring in more voices
2. Some people don't seem to want that
3. This is core problem to solve: How do we let more in, but not “pollute” your feed?
4. The solution is not "gatekeeping", revelling in the fact that Al journalists aren't welcome
5. This is the same reason we lost "Black Twitter" when it came over in 2022Yes, a lot of you don't want AI posts in your feed (or pick any other topic) but the solution isn't to keep "Al People" from joining Mastodon, any more than it is keeping marginalized communities off of Mastodon.
Thank you!
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And because of how *useful* this fallacious moral position is, this blindness to injustice and obsession with false unity, they've been *reinforced* in their wrongness for a half century.
Basically, this shit is *deeply woven into their identities*, to the point where they'd rather the Holocaust happen again than people treat the AfD with too much disrespect. Because that's what *being an adult* is, and God knows we need more adulting like that in this fucked world of ours.
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@johnzajac Does this overlap with the notion that maybe the ACLU shouldn't be using their resources to defend the freedom of speech of Nazis?
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I screenshot this because I don't have the energy to throw myself into a pit of half-braindead liberal vipers this morning.
But this *entire thread* is incredibly important, because it's why Donald Trump is president.
This is a thread about how liberals destroyed the world.
@johnzajac thank you for this esp since things are indeed getting worse, i.e. this non-argument you're correctly fighting against is popping up all over. Like I talk about this and it's called "shaming" etc. https://scholar.social/@olivia/116357303546392362
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@johnzajac What a horrible gaslighty abusive OP.
"We don't want AI at all."
"Too bad. We're adding it anyway."
"Fuck you."
"Ugh, it's so EASY to convince yourself that ABUSE and HARASSMENT are okay! You should be engaging with us in good faith to influence how we implement AI in your browser. Otherwise we'll just do whatever we want."Exactly and exactly why banning all the people sucking up in this shitty thread has been quite productive!
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@johnzajac Wheb someone demand something if mastodon, it really means they don't get shit and their brain is rotten by big tech BS.
You don't demand any change on mastodon. You implement them. And if nobody gives a fuck, well that's that.
This guy can start he's own AI bros friendly instance, and see how they will all be eventually getting blocked.
Yup.
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@johnzajac thank you for this esp since things are indeed getting worse, i.e. this non-argument you're correctly fighting against is popping up all over. Like I talk about this and it's called "shaming" etc. https://scholar.social/@olivia/116357303546392362
Yes! I noticed that many articles are shifting from trying to defend "AI" (it's indefensible, I think they've realized?) to doubling down on the disinformation that what is called "AI" (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude) is the same as ML applications that have become truly revolutionary over the last ten years, AND this technology is *inevitable*, so we "need to shift from being anti-AI to being midwives and partners to the coming "AI" future" so we can shape it.
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I screenshot this because I don't have the energy to throw myself into a pit of half-braindead liberal vipers this morning.
But this *entire thread* is incredibly important, because it's why Donald Trump is president.
This is a thread about how liberals destroyed the world.
Fascinating thread John, I lost track of all of the blocks after 8 or so. Each block is filed under "half-braindead liberal vipers" in honor of one of those silly ass posts. Also given several of them were @dice.camp an instance ban is potentially next up.
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I screenshot this because I don't have the energy to throw myself into a pit of half-braindead liberal vipers this morning.
But this *entire thread* is incredibly important, because it's why Donald Trump is president.
This is a thread about how liberals destroyed the world.
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Yes! I noticed that many articles are shifting from trying to defend "AI" (it's indefensible, I think they've realized?) to doubling down on the disinformation that what is called "AI" (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude) is the same as ML applications that have become truly revolutionary over the last ten years, AND this technology is *inevitable*, so we "need to shift from being anti-AI to being midwives and partners to the coming "AI" future" so we can shape it.
@johnzajac and milquetoast "I am lying on my back, belly exposed, please don't disembowel me" citing OpenAI on their water use
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Scott Jensen's concern, in a nutshell, is the abuse and harrassment that AI propagandists have to face here, on Mastodon.
His concern about the unethical, immoral, and destructive externalities of yes, even "local AI models"? His concern about the deliberate, strategic conflation of ML applications like medicine and materials development? Protein folding? Physics modeling?
Apparently not urgent enough to even mention.
No, it's the propagandists receiving rudeness he finds alarming.
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@johnzajac as Scott Jenson is the Product Strategy Advisor to Mastodon Core team it makes the whole project suspect
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@johnzajac and milquetoast "I am lying on my back, belly exposed, please don't disembowel me" citing OpenAI on their water use
"Yes, I know that my "AI" use is rendering areas of the world uninhabitable but how *else* will I find grammatical errors in my writing 80% of the time?"
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Liberals are singularly incapable of distinguishing between a just peace and MLK's "false peace of injustice".
It's like they're colorblind except in this instance it's not that they can't tell colors apart, it's that they can't figure out what the difference is between the Nazi invaders and the French Resistance.
"What I'm really concerned about," some liberal somewhere must have said in 1943, "is that the French Resistance is killing people, too. How are they different from Nazis?!?"
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@johnzajac putting liberals in a monolith is a mistake, we are not that. I'm a left leaning liberal, we exist.
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So when these liberals wander around demanding that we leave the "echo chamber" (the fact-based world, in this instance) so we can be considered "reasonable", and in doing so find themselves defending *PLANET-DESTROYING TECHNOLOGIES CREATED BY CARTOONISHLY EVIL ROBBER BARONS*, it's not aberrant: it's how their ideology works.
They will *always* push back on moral thinking to make space for evil, because *that's the core idea behind their politics*.
And they think it's noble.
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@johnzajac NIMBY liberal Boomerism will be the death of us all
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I screenshot this because I don't have the energy to throw myself into a pit of half-braindead liberal vipers this morning.
But this *entire thread* is incredibly important, because it's why Donald Trump is president.
This is a thread about how liberals destroyed the world.
@johnzajac I think you've misplaced the topic of that branch of the conversation.
Here's the brigading event we were talking about (Dare responded to my share of it):
https://mastodon.social/@MozillaAI/116279201448628866
I think the aggressive language and threats are really dark. You might think they're justified.
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