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Bethany Rae 🇨🇦
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Writer, editor, crafter, internet addict. Sometimes I blog. She/her/the knitting lady.
If you have any other suggestions as to how to live an AI-free life, please feel free to share them. 9/
#AISucks #AIRefusenik
December 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It will take concerted governmental and societal measures to limit the pernicious damage the AI industry does, but individual effort is important too. 8/
#AISucks #AIRefusenik
December 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
AI product is inartistic and riddled with errors, it steals actual people's work, it's adding to the already dangerously high level of misinformation out there, and it's terrible for the environment because it uses an exorbitant amount of electricity. 7/
#AISucks #AIRefusenik
December 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I'm no Luddite, but new technologies should be assessed and adopted with care and thought, and AI sucks donkey kong. 6/
#AISucks #AIRefusenik
December 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I've instituted a policy of hiding all the pages Facebook is recommending to me that use AI-generated material, even when they are pages I would otherwise have been interested in. 5/
#AISucks #AIRefusenik
December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I've been seeing a lot of AI-generated posts (i.e., very fake-looking visual images, irritatingly trite, wordy, and generic long-form text posts) in my Facebook newsfeed lately. 4/
#AISucks #AIRefusenik
December 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
There's no way to hide the Meta AI chat completely that I could find, but I disabled notifications for it. 3/
#AISucks #AIRefusenik
December 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I use DuckDuckGo as my search engine rather than Google, as DuckDuckGo gives its users a way to opt out of AI search results. I've also opted out of AI search results on Pinterest, and disabled AI features on my right click pop-up menu and in Word. 2/
#AISucks #AIRefusenik
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
That is the least ridiculous idea I ever heard of. #goforit
December 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Is it Dress Like J.R. Ewing Day in the Oval Office?
December 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
She has such a weird, droid-like light in her eyes.
December 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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It would be awesome if we could stop re-inventing every awful thing from the past, unlearning every brutal lesson, dismantling every hard-won solution
November 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
There are many political issues on which reasonable people might disagree, but there are some on which we need to take firm ground.

There must be no room made in the tent for corruption, abuse, anti-vaxxers, Trumpists, climate crisis denial, racism, misogyny, homophobia, or transphobia. 2/
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This whole trial promises to be amusing.
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I could knit something like that for under $15.

If I wanted one. Which I don't.
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
FIND SOME OTHER PLACE TO DO YOUR BUSINESS, YOU BROWN BERRY-DROPPING JERKS.

Signed,

A Toronto Homeowner Who Has Had It With Your Shit 17/
#fecalmatters #TrashPandas #RaccoonBerries
November 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM