Which is the vegan party?

Eh, you can download and run them locally now, and they don’t even phone home.

I’ve had them give me the exact same answer a second time. They politely apologized first, of course, and they were just as confident that it was correct as the first time.

Can you give an example?

I think this IS an AI tech bro. Or at least an AI tech bro dick-rider.

It’s pretty clear that the author doesn’t intend it as a compliment.

Maybe, but that doesn’t change the fact that it was trained on stolen artwork and is being used to put artists out of work. I think that, and the environmental effect, are better arguments against AI than some subjective statement about whether or not it’s good.

And the response has to be organized and political, not individualistic and consumerist.

Right. This isn’t an argument against veganism; it’s an argument for vegans getting organized.

Veganism is a philosophy, not a boycott.

They aren’t using the word. Other people are using it and applying it to them.

Hell, the less knowledgeable among them might even believe it.

What’s weird is that the people who run the fucking companies apparently believe this. Or they’re trying to convince us that they believe this.

like saying it deserves rights or that there may be some kind of racism against the tool.

Wait, who’s saying this?!

I don’t agree with the framing, either, but they’re drawing parallels between people not using something due to a principled moral stance. (As well as some not-so-subtle implication that these people are holier-than-thou, too.)

Part of becoming socially acceptable is being visible so that people understand that atheists aren’t some kind of scary monster. We are your doctors, scientists, fire fighters, etc. You might even be friends with one! There might be one (or more!) in your own family! And the only way that is going to happen is if atheists identify as such.

Imagine thinking that veganism is “wacky”.

Vegan is not an insult, it is a compliment.

It also has nothing to do with AI. It would be like calling them “AI feminists”.

People who use the term “vegan” for somebody they consider extremist, ascetic, or annoying are really telling on themselves.

Side note: one of the most genius rebrands of all time was the way fake leather (which is often made from polyurethane, a type of plastic) suddenly became aspirational “vegan leather”.

Most vegan leathers are made from compostable materials, because (surprise, surprise!) many vegans are also environmentalists.

cat and ls have canonical short names to save disk space on the systems they were created for.

I thought it was to save on keystrokes due to slow transmission speeds.

Maybe it can, but with fish, it does what I want right out of the box, and I don’t have to spend time configuring it.

This part really stuck out for me:

This is the latest example of a strange marketing strategy by AI companies. Instead of selling products based on helpful features and letting users decide, executives often deploy scare tactics that essentially warn people they will become obsolete if they don’t get on the AI bandwagon.

If hype doesn’t work, try threats!