i have been floated

...since I'm making a trend of archiving my comments from elsewhere on the internet on this blog...

Have you lost any friends over the ai topic? Like you like it but they didn’t. Or maybe the friendship got weird if not completely gone.

Yes, a friend of mine who I'd known for 25 years became very anti-AI and essentially just started insulting me for my AI use, so I stopped talking to him.

Thanks to coding agents, I'm able to enjoy my favorite hobby (building stuff) without any of the downsides. I've been able to finish projects in a month that would have taken me three times as long, if not more, and I'm able to more easily maintain the projects I built out before I used AI. I am happier and more productive than ever before. It's incredible.

But all he could say in response to my happiness is that AI devalues me as a software engineer, and that anything I make with AI is worthless and he'd never want to hear me talk about it.

Some people don't understand "love is that which enables choice". To them, love is restrictive, possessive, and judgmental. I'm not interested in that kind of love.

On a reddit thread of people freaking out over a local restaurant having an AI-generated menu...

I honestly don't care. Reddit uses a fuckton of AI and y'all show up here everyday just fine.

I've tried this line of reasoning but people don't actually care about being hypocrites, because the human mind can't deal with that much cognitive dissonance at once.

These people know, on some level, that they're using a website that exploits their emotions for engagement while selling their data to train AI products, and that they are using products and wearing clothes built by people being exploited in foreign countries, and that if they're wealthy they are wealthy in a country that was likely built on the labor and land of exploited / murdered people, and that their wealth is a representation of inequality that leaves people homeless on the streets and starves children.

But, like, what really matters is going on reddit to express outrage that a local business has an AI menu! Because they believe AI harms them directly, they don't care about harms perpetuated on other people for their benefit. That's why they will all slowly change their tune once they realize a way that AI helps them instead of harms them, while they continue to not give a shit about the systems of exploitation that props them up.

It's amazing how quickly "slop" has turned into the go-to way for anyone on the internet to insult anything they don't like, even if it isn't AI related. It's like a brain worm. I hate to be this guy but if I see you call something "slop", it's a clear signal to me that you're a complete and total moron who cannot think for themselves at all and you spend too much time on social media because you have no life. You're welcome!

Blood of the Dawnwalker is awesome. Beautiful world, fun combat, great story + voice acting. It has it all!

Aw, cute, thinly veiled violent threats, how adorbz. Courtesy of whitequark (who is very likely generally against in-groups making violent threats of bodily harm against out-groups, we could assume).

Will this stop people from listening to this grifter? No, probably not, but it feels good to have it all laid out in one place.

I was arguing with people about AI on IRC, as I love to do, and a friend said I was “too defensive”. It wasn’t until later, in the shower, that I thought I could have said, “well, you’re too offensive.” But that’s not quite right, is it? Semantically, sure, but in actuality, it isn’t.

People who are against AI want to see it stopped, prevented, slowed down, or entirely banned. Those are all defensive actions. People who are pro-AI, on the other hand, want to see it advance, prosper, continue, etc. Those are technically goals of the offense.

So no, deep down, I am not too defensive, because I am not playing defense. I am playing offense. My position is not one of fear. I am not putting up obstacles, I am tearing them down. So, yeah, call me “too offensive,” if you want, at least then you’d be correct.

LAPD Officer Facing 13 Years in Prison for Recording the Racist Comments of Coworkers

Los Angeles County is charging Officer Daniel Flores with over a dozen felony charges for secretly recording his coworkers while they made racist, homophobic, and misogynistic remarks.  Officer Flores faces 16 felony charges, including eavesdropping on and recording confidential communication, despite only using the recording as part of a complaint to Los Angeles Police Department […]

https://theemancipator.org/2026/08/03/news/lapd-officer-facing-13-years-in-prison-for-recording-the-racist-comments-of-coworkers/

Just in case there was any doubt the LAPD and all the officers within it are complete and total pieces of shit, and that the fish rots from the head. ACAB indeed.

tfw you argue with someone online and then you poke around chat history and see that they're just some unemployed loser so you feel nicely smug about it

I find myself thinking about the way a coworker describes AI as a “force multiplier” a lot. I think it is very true. It is a force multiplier for the things already inside of us, the good and bad, the conscious and unconscious. If you're curious, it makes you more curious; if you're lazy, it makes you more lazy. There is no solution for this except vigilance, which is bad for all the people with no vigilance. There will be a lot of people with no vigilance trying to blame AI for a lot of stuff in the coming years…

But, anyway, it will be curious to see what cumulative effect this force multiplier will have on society at large. I mean, gosh, that sounds pretty scary, as a pessimist who thinks society is already pretty scary.