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really just here to explore different worldviews and refine my own | budding social entrepreneur as I *finally* finish my MBA/MPH | over-thinking neurodivergent complex trauma survivor

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Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · Aug 24

Social entrepreneurism
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agentic AI tech
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for-profit benefit corporation cash cow to fund an Incubated Collective Impact network reinventing how complex trauma survivors are supported in society

We can absolutely use generative AI technology for good just like they use it for evil.

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Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 53m

You're angrily reply-bombing with nonsense because on some level you know I'm right so your fragile ego needs to lash out.

Now you're going into time out because you're clearly not emotionally ready to speak at the grown folks table.

But your fragile gets the last word it craves so enjoy!

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 59m

*side-eyes* Not only is it bizarre to say that I'm taking anything personally - especially since I don't even like bagels and didn't even offer up a bagel order to be judged on - you just bizarrely fabricated the purpose of Erin's thread. I don't see a need to be so insecure.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 1h

"an anti-AI zealot's burner"

I never indicated or even believed it was yours - but the way you just reacted pretty much tells me and everyone else that it is, bless your guilty heart

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 1h

I agree yet the topic in my reading is how these conversations are being had and the effectiveness of discourse approaches.

My point is that getting into how the rhetorical mechanics reveals their psychology is too deep and messy and doesn't crisply connect to their true goal of attacking AI users.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 2h

Seems like one of the most diverse cities in the world would have cultural culinary expectations that's diverse as well.

But calling people asinine for their bagel orders is just ugly regardless of "cultural expectations"

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 2h

That's a reply to something somebody said somewhere, so you should probably run it on over to them because none of that has anything to do with what I said.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 2h

Please point out where on those posts that I defended generative AI.

I won't wait because everyone who has third grade reading comprehension knows that's not what I did.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 2h

It's adorable that your reading comprehension told you that.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 2h

If your reading comprehension told you that's what happened and you went to a private school, you should really ask for tuition reimbursement.

Yet I imagine you're educated enough to understand that's not what I said, but conjuring alternate realities is how bigots justify their worldview.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 2h

And like all bigots confronted with the reality of who they are and what they do, you simply resort to more personal attacks.

Of course, that just ironically serves to underscore who you are and what you do.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 2h

It makes you feel good to attack people who use AI, doesn't it? Just admit it.

It doesn't matter if they're neurodivergent, disabled, using it to help people, or any other entirely justified uses.

In fact, it feels better to to attack those folks because they're the ones undermining your dogma.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 2h

How did I try to shield generative AI from criticism?

What I did was point out the bigotry amongst generative AI critics.

There's plenty to criticize about generative AI. My point is you don't have to resort to ableism and other forms of bigotry in order to do so.

But it feels good, right?

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 2h

So all that you're left with is to channel your inner Stephen Miller and conjure up an alternate reality designed to create yet another opportunity to generate hate and justify your bigotry.

And your followers wallow in it just like Stephen Miller's does.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 2h

You can't objectively argue against the reality that ableist attacks on neurodivergent and disabled people using AI assistive tools are prevalent within the anti-AI echo chambers.

You also can't deny that humanizing slurs against bots being circuitous, socially-safe way of othering AI users.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 2h

But bigotry is inherently indefensible so alternate realities have to be created in order to justify it.

I would ask you to own that, but bigots are pathologically incapable of self-reflection or admitting fault amd willful ignorance is fundamental to preserving a bigoted worldview.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 2h

"trying to use disabled and neurodivergent people to justify it is gross"

Thing is, I didn't justify willfully spreading disinformation. I didn't even address that at all.

The only thing I discussed was the bigotry among you anti-AI zealots.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 2h

Willfully spreading misinformation for clout has nothing to do with using AI.

You're just using it as an excuse to justify your bigoted language and attacks on anyone and everyone using AI.

And your bad-faith, intellectually dishonest manipulation of what I said is exactly what bigots do.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 2h

As if to underscore my point, here is an anti-AI zealot's burner account calling for violence against me under the thimly-veiled plausible deniability of calling for violence against bots.

And this aggressive behavior is now the norm within anti-AI spaces.
bsky.app/profile/iono...

Antifa Hoagie Assassin @ionotter.bsky.social · 3h

a cartoon of a penguin holding a baseball bat and a robot with the words bot alert behind them

Alt: a cartoon of a penguin holding a baseball bat and a robot with the words bot alert behind them

media.tenor.com

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 2h

It's intellectually dishonest to claim it's the "conventions of reporting" and not the abject cowardice of reporters and their editors.

Conventions don't fail, people do.

Conventions don't make choices, people do.

Conventions don't have societal responsibilities, journalists do.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3h

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 3h

What's fascinating about this dynamic is the people engaging in all these objectively bigoted behaviors genuinely consider themselves to be progressive "without a bigoted bone in my body" folks.

Of course, the willful ignorance powering bigotry means they can never be convinced it's bigotry.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 4h

"slopbrained people"

The anti-AI community really does so easily embrace bigotry.

We see it with their ableist attacks on neurodivergent and disabled people using AI assistive tools.

Same with humanizing slurs against bots - which are really circuitous, socially-safe way of othering AI users.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 4h

Imo, none of this is really about offending AI bots by creating slurs for them.

It's about generating a circuitous, socially-safe way to slur people who use AI, much like is done to people who socialize with pedophiles or collaborate with Nazis.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry, in case you were wondering where the asinine bagel order reference came from, I thought your comment was extending down from this response.

bsky.app/profile/rock...

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 20h

Because some of these bagel orders are asinine.

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 4h

Absolutely. Culinary bigotry works more or less exactly like every other form.

When you call a bagel order "asinine," you really attacking the person in order to Other them. And like most bigoted attacks, it's completely nonsensical.

I mean, how can a bagel order be asinine?