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1/6 Once the stated objections to genAI are addressed...ethical training sets, open-source models, community-driven and decentralized...there are still a cadre of critics who will get angrily huffy about it.
They aren't Luddites
(I addressed that here:
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They aren't Luddites
(I addressed that here:
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Automation, AI Agents, and the Post-Labor Future
Let’s be blunt: the future of artificial intelligence isn’t chatbots, it’s agents. Not in the James Bond sense (unless he’s been fine-tuned…
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December 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The letter was being discussed and reported about back in 2023.
December 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The letter was being discussed and reported about back in 2023.
Did Fuentes send you?
December 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Did Fuentes send you?
Here's the link to it at the DoJ site, while it's still uploaded: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
The note itself was discovered and reported about (though the contents weren't) back in 2023.
The note itself was discovered and reported about (though the contents weren't) back in 2023.
www.justice.gov
December 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Here's the link to it at the DoJ site, while it's still uploaded: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
The note itself was discovered and reported about (though the contents weren't) back in 2023.
The note itself was discovered and reported about (though the contents weren't) back in 2023.
The historical parallels are pretty uncanny, not to mention all the Moral Panic arguments the anti-AI crusaders are using.
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The Panic Is Old, The Technology Is New: How Anti-AI Arguments Are Just Recycled Rhetoric from…
By Brian Ragle
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December 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The historical parallels are pretty uncanny, not to mention all the Moral Panic arguments the anti-AI crusaders are using.
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Letter from Epstein to Larry Nassar in 2019 mentioning Trump was just like them but he wasn't in prison and they were:
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
December 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Letter from Epstein to Larry Nassar in 2019 mentioning Trump was just like them but he wasn't in prison and they were:
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
You voted for the president mentioned here: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
December 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
You voted for the president mentioned here: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Well, you can't spell Erika Kirk without K...K...K.
December 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Well, you can't spell Erika Kirk without K...K...K.
I agree and there is enough out there to show he is very much connected to Epstein without having to give him cover by posting AI photos that he can use to claim all other real photos are also faked.
December 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I agree and there is enough out there to show he is very much connected to Epstein without having to give him cover by posting AI photos that he can use to claim all other real photos are also faked.
Honestly feel like the alt-text really makes this whole thing work just by how naive it actually is.
December 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Honestly feel like the alt-text really makes this whole thing work just by how naive it actually is.
Yeah, that didn't happen.
December 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Yeah, that didn't happen.
Squeaker Johnson, doing his best impression of a broken clock.
December 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Squeaker Johnson, doing his best impression of a broken clock.
I take your point and agree, but find a different example than the dog because I absolutely would not give up on a dog, even if it bit me.
People? Yes, they can all burn. A dog? Never.
People? Yes, they can all burn. A dog? Never.
December 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I take your point and agree, but find a different example than the dog because I absolutely would not give up on a dog, even if it bit me.
People? Yes, they can all burn. A dog? Never.
People? Yes, they can all burn. A dog? Never.
Oh, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it was eventually discovered that Trump's own people put these AI photos out as a way to smear all the other real photos of him.
December 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Oh, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it was eventually discovered that Trump's own people put these AI photos out as a way to smear all the other real photos of him.
That photo isn’t from the 90s. You will find no source for it older than about 2-3 years. It’s a fake photo.
December 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
That photo isn’t from the 90s. You will find no source for it older than about 2-3 years. It’s a fake photo.
More emotionalism. Got it. And if my words made you run to a thesaurus then it's small wonder you are so threatened by AI stealing whatever income you have been able to scam off people with pencilslop.
December 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
More emotionalism. Got it. And if my words made you run to a thesaurus then it's small wonder you are so threatened by AI stealing whatever income you have been able to scam off people with pencilslop.
Ah, so you have no words and can't defend your emotional outburst.
Another exposure of pensilslop purveyors being outed as talentless hacks who are frightened of the looms.
Another exposure of pensilslop purveyors being outed as talentless hacks who are frightened of the looms.
December 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Ah, so you have no words and can't defend your emotional outburst.
Another exposure of pensilslop purveyors being outed as talentless hacks who are frightened of the looms.
Another exposure of pensilslop purveyors being outed as talentless hacks who are frightened of the looms.
Use your words and explain how it's dishonest or what was dishonest about it. Put your emotional reactions aside, try and focus, and actually make an argument that isn't some reactionary histrionics grounded in profound ignorance and intense fear of being out-competed by the masses.
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Use your words and explain how it's dishonest or what was dishonest about it. Put your emotional reactions aside, try and focus, and actually make an argument that isn't some reactionary histrionics grounded in profound ignorance and intense fear of being out-competed by the masses.
The French poet Baudelaire said a lot of the same kinds of stuff about the emerging field of photography in regard to the arts.
#pencilslop
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#pencilslop
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December 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The French poet Baudelaire said a lot of the same kinds of stuff about the emerging field of photography in regard to the arts.
#pencilslop
photoquotes.com/author/charl...
#pencilslop
photoquotes.com/author/charl...
White man here. I'm 50 years old. Born and raised in the US in Tennessee. I have lived in, worked in, or visited 48 out of 50 states and crossed the whole of Canada.
At no time have I ever been told, asked, or felt compelled to apologize for being white. Ever.
Jimmy Bowman is a liar.
At no time have I ever been told, asked, or felt compelled to apologize for being white. Ever.
Jimmy Bowman is a liar.
December 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
White man here. I'm 50 years old. Born and raised in the US in Tennessee. I have lived in, worked in, or visited 48 out of 50 states and crossed the whole of Canada.
At no time have I ever been told, asked, or felt compelled to apologize for being white. Ever.
Jimmy Bowman is a liar.
At no time have I ever been told, asked, or felt compelled to apologize for being white. Ever.
Jimmy Bowman is a liar.
BTW, we knew this was coming:
December 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
BTW, we knew this was coming:
You mean the black marks on detailed reports of abuse of young girls?
If they aren't victims, they are participants.
If the reports aren't about abuse, then they are about associations and those associations with a child trafficking ring need to be exposed.
If they aren't victims, they are participants.
If the reports aren't about abuse, then they are about associations and those associations with a child trafficking ring need to be exposed.
December 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
You mean the black marks on detailed reports of abuse of young girls?
If they aren't victims, they are participants.
If the reports aren't about abuse, then they are about associations and those associations with a child trafficking ring need to be exposed.
If they aren't victims, they are participants.
If the reports aren't about abuse, then they are about associations and those associations with a child trafficking ring need to be exposed.
I didn't say you did. You voted for the guy who is on recording sexualizing his daughters. You voted for the guy in those videos I posted above. You voted for the guy who opened a "modeling" agency to traffick illegally in young girls at the same time he was hanging around with Epstein.
December 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I didn't say you did. You voted for the guy who is on recording sexualizing his daughters. You voted for the guy in those videos I posted above. You voted for the guy who opened a "modeling" agency to traffick illegally in young girls at the same time he was hanging around with Epstein.