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The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️‍🌈
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Another cis feminist for trans rights. She/her. Not quite a crone. Bad-faith arguments get you muted, slurs get you blocked. I repost a lot of geekery, some of it NSFW.
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Upon what are you basing your assumption that genAI is "inevitable"? Please limit your answers to the subject at hand; don't do the usual AI-booster tactic of gesturing at email and smartphones and claiming it's exactly like those.
February 5, 2026 at 10:02 AM
You sound like you're throwing up your hands and trying to say, "Well, it's inevitable anyway, and not really that much worse than other stuff," and neither is true.
February 5, 2026 at 3:48 AM
But there are non-monetary ways to support something, and we should try to avoid supporting "genAI" shit.
February 5, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Thing is, the empirical evidence we've got says that LLMs actually DECREASE productivity.

Techbros have thrown a lot of money at them, so they really really want this stuff to pan out. But assuming that it's here to stay is doing the techbros' work for them.
February 5, 2026 at 3:45 AM
"Free AI" is no better. It's burning water, polluting poor communities, and allowing techbros to point at use statistics and say, "See? People DO like the lying plagiarism machines!"
February 5, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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As an aside, Rachel is a legend. (From Fischer’s “African Founders”)
February 4, 2026 at 1:02 PM
There's a reason I've been switching to products that don't use so-called AI.
February 5, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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The French are taking none of Musk’s bullshit.
February 3, 2026 at 11:45 PM
I was thinking of giving them to a thrift store. I hadn't thought about schools. Thanks.
February 4, 2026 at 7:09 PM
"Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength."
February 4, 2026 at 10:11 AM
What would you suggest doing with books like Hanging Out With the Dream King? I have limited space and don't want to keep that stuff.
February 4, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Yeah. I'm not getting rid of the stuff I read and loved, especially because it was so formative for me, but I'm not giving him another penny.
February 4, 2026 at 6:19 AM