@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
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May 07, 2026
the roamer
@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
University teacher, father, dog walker. A European in England. Posting micro-comments on all things that come my way, large and small. #pedagogy, #taoism, #literature, #programming, #typography, #TeX, #politics, #covid. Kindness will prevail. Posting about #noAI. #StopTheAICorruption. Personal long-term strands: #MastodonCulture, #whippet_moments, #Plutarch's #ParallelLives. Regular comments on the #Pepys diary. Most of my comments come up in conversations. Please view my "Posts and Replies".
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Thinking about genAI and the death of dialogue
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Richard Dawkins's "Claudia" piece gives us a glum vision of the future of speaking. We see an entirely artificial exchange of well-constructed sentences, all following the laws of pattern recognition, but all without an ounce of expressive truth. The soulless automation is on both sides: Claudia the LLM speaks as it was programmed to speak; Richard the human speaks as his narcissistic pathology makes him speak. Neither invests their soul. Claudia because it has none, Richard because he hides it from himself.
Martin Buber tells us that true dialogue is between "I and Thou". There is no "I" and no "Thou" in Dawkins' conversation, only performance.
Leonard Cohen tells us that "There is a crack in everything, // That's how the light gets in." There is no crack in these automated texts, and no light. Only darkness.
#RichardDawkins #GenerativeNarcicissm #StopTheAICorruption #noLLM #MartinBuber #IAndThou #LookForTheCracks
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@alextheuxguy@fosstodon.org
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May 05, 2026
Alex White
@alextheuxguy@fosstodon.org
Just a guy in Ohio | Tech Minimalist | Cyclist | Dad
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Building With Intent: Why I'm building a native RSS feeder reader that's under 5MB.
https://thatalexguy.dev/building-with-intent
#development #tinyapps #rust #rss #handcoded #nollm
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@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
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May 04, 2026
the roamer
@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
University teacher, father, dog walker. A European in England. Posting micro-comments on all things that come my way, large and small. #pedagogy, #taoism, #literature, #programming, #typography, #TeX, #politics, #covid. Kindness will prevail. Posting about #noAI. #StopTheAICorruption. Personal long-term strands: #MastodonCulture, #whippet_moments, #Plutarch's #ParallelLives. Regular comments on the #Pepys diary. Most of my comments come up in conversations. Please view my "Posts and Replies".
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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
Well put.
Reading the Dawkings piece is useful for all sorts of reasons, including alerting us to the self-mirroring state of mind that is being created by intensive exposure to the Dark Machine.
#StopTheAICorruption
#noLLM #RichardDawkins
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@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
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May 04, 2026
the roamer
@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
University teacher, father, dog walker. A European in England. Posting micro-comments on all things that come my way, large and small. #pedagogy, #taoism, #literature, #programming, #typography, #TeX, #politics, #covid. Kindness will prevail. Posting about #noAI. #StopTheAICorruption. Personal long-term strands: #MastodonCulture, #whippet_moments, #Plutarch's #ParallelLives. Regular comments on the #Pepys diary. Most of my comments come up in conversations. Please view my "Posts and Replies".
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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz
"Did Turing every discuss how well flattery works for winning the imitation game?"
Oh, excellent. You've earned the Pithy Remark of the Year 2026 award.
(Yes, I dare the rest of year to prove me wrong!)
#RichardDawkins #TuringTest #GenerativeNarcicsm #noLLM #StopTheAICorruption
#PithyRemarkOfTheYear
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@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
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May 02, 2026
the roamer
@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
University teacher, father, dog walker. A European in England. Posting micro-comments on all things that come my way, large and small. #pedagogy, #taoism, #literature, #programming, #typography, #TeX, #politics, #covid. Kindness will prevail. Posting about #noAI. #StopTheAICorruption. Personal long-term strands: #MastodonCulture, #whippet_moments, #Plutarch's #ParallelLives. Regular comments on the #Pepys diary. Most of my comments come up in conversations. Please view my "Posts and Replies".
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@xtaldave@social.vivaldi.net
Remarkable. Perhaps not surprising, but remarkable nonetheless, and truly frightening.
To read Dawkins's exchanges with claude gives me a glimpse into the faux-dialogical LLM exhanges that many of my coworkers will have on a daily basis. I can see how having these experiences will change one's entire outlook on life and on others, and how language gets corrupted along the way. Frightening.
#StopTheAiCorruption #noLLM
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@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
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Apr 26, 2026
the roamer
@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
University teacher, father, dog walker. A European in England. Posting micro-comments on all things that come my way, large and small. #pedagogy, #taoism, #literature, #programming, #typography, #TeX, #politics, #covid. Kindness will prevail. Posting about #noAI. #StopTheAICorruption. Personal long-term strands: #MastodonCulture, #whippet_moments, #Plutarch's #ParallelLives. Regular comments on the #Pepys diary. Most of my comments come up in conversations. Please view my "Posts and Replies".
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genAI and email: the end of unfiltered communication
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At work we use MS Outlook for email. I have switched off all genAI / Copilot features, but Microsoft of course resets the system at every opportunity and the other day I had Copilot on against my wishes. I was busy and left it on whilst I dealt with some urgent emails.
Jeez! The intrusive way in which the interface pushes the genAI features on you! Can't open someone's email without being steered by the system to have AI summarise it for you. It's barely a choice, more the default.
I imagine many colleagues have it on all the time and use it when they get my carefully crafted messages. The times when you could assume that the recipient actually sees your text are gone.
I know that people are bad at parsing emails, but thus far one could assume they _see_ the text and one could write to help them parse it reasonably well. Not any more.
The times we live in.
Martin Buber, we need you.
#StopTheAICorruption
#Outlook #email #noLLM
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@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
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Apr 09, 2026
the roamer
@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
University teacher, father, dog walker. A European in England. Posting micro-comments on all things that come my way, large and small. #pedagogy, #taoism, #literature, #programming, #typography, #TeX, #politics, #covid. Kindness will prevail. Posting about #noAI. #StopTheAICorruption. Personal long-term strands: #MastodonCulture, #whippet_moments, #Plutarch's #ParallelLives. Regular comments on the #Pepys diary. Most of my comments come up in conversations. Please view my "Posts and Replies".
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Wikipedia's new "no LLM" policy
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Good news, as of 27 March. (I had missed this when it came out.)
Wikipedia content guidelines now prohibit the use of genAI tools, with two well-defined minor exceptions. An important step.
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"Text generated by large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, or Grammarly often violates several of Wikipedia's core content policies. For this reason, the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited, save for [...] two exceptions."
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The two listed exceptions are (i) basic copyediting support, under human review, and (ii) translation into English.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models
#noAI #noLLM
#StopTheAICorruption
#Wikipedia #WikipediaContentGuidelines #WikipediaNoLLM
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
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Mar 09, 2026
Jesus Michał "Le Sigh" 🏔 (he)
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
A #cat (owned by 3 cats), a nonconformist. #Gentoo developer, est. 2010. Taking care of #Python, #LLVM, #Xfce. #FreeSoftware enthusiast. #CarFree → #rail around #Poznań and western #Poland. #MADAO. #AntiCapitalism. #ActuallyAutistic + #diabetes. Random rants, silly humor. Playing with tongue, and enjoying double entendres. Follows require approval because apparently AI-bros think not refusing a follow is consent. Note: if you can read Polish, I recommend following my Polish profile instead (link in table). It includes unique content that doesn't work in English, and I boost all English content there anyway. #TootFinder
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@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
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Mar 04, 2026
the roamer
@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
University teacher, father, dog walker. A European in England. Posting micro-comments on all things that come my way, large and small. #pedagogy, #taoism, #literature, #programming, #typography, #TeX, #politics, #covid. Kindness will prevail. Posting about #noAI. #StopTheAICorruption. Personal long-term strands: #MastodonCulture, #whippet_moments, #Plutarch's #ParallelLives. Regular comments on the #Pepys diary. Most of my comments come up in conversations. Please view my "Posts and Replies".
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Inspector Lestrade did not try to hide his pride. "Charlotte, our new AI agent, really is the ticket. We gave her the data and she found the murderer within seconds. We have arrested Jones, the plumber. Not sure whether we will need your services much longer, Holmes," he laughed. "Charlotte does the work." Sherlock smiled drily.
What can one do about someone like Lestrade, Watson, he said to me once we sat in the cab. Someone who can't think can't see the truth even when it stares them in the face. Jones would never have twisted the compression coupling counter-clockwise, he's a trained plumber, for Heaven's sake! It was Lord Jenkins who removed the pipe, ignorant of the nature of the fittings. Hence the scratch marks on the brass. Lestrade will call on us again by evening. It is Tuesday, Watson, I believe Mrs Hudson has some cake for us. We can keep some for Lestrade.
#SherlockHolmes #InspectorLestrade #HolmesAndWatson #StopTheAICorruption #noLLM
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
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Feb 28, 2026
Jesus Michał "Le Sigh" 🏔 (he)
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
A #cat (owned by 3 cats), a nonconformist. #Gentoo developer, est. 2010. Taking care of #Python, #LLVM, #Xfce. #FreeSoftware enthusiast. #CarFree → #rail around #Poznań and western #Poland. #MADAO. #AntiCapitalism. #ActuallyAutistic + #diabetes. Random rants, silly humor. Playing with tongue, and enjoying double entendres. Follows require approval because apparently AI-bros think not refusing a follow is consent. Note: if you can read Polish, I recommend following my Polish profile instead (link in table). It includes unique content that doesn't work in English, and I boost all English content there anyway. #TootFinder
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Isn't it funny that we've moved from "you need special skills to be a programmer" to "everyone can learn to be a programmer", to "everyone can use an #LLM to be a programmer", and now because of all the deskilling we're going to circle back into "you need special skills to be a programmer".
#AI #NoAI #NoLLM
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
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Feb 25, 2026
Jesus Michał "Le Sigh" 🏔 (he)
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
A #cat (owned by 3 cats), a nonconformist. #Gentoo developer, est. 2010. Taking care of #Python, #LLVM, #Xfce. #FreeSoftware enthusiast. #CarFree → #rail around #Poznań and western #Poland. #MADAO. #AntiCapitalism. #ActuallyAutistic + #diabetes. Random rants, silly humor. Playing with tongue, and enjoying double entendres. Follows require approval because apparently AI-bros think not refusing a follow is consent. Note: if you can read Polish, I recommend following my Polish profile instead (link in table). It includes unique content that doesn't work in English, and I boost all English content there anyway. #TootFinder
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Perhaps the main difference between myself and vibe coders is that we have completely different backgrounds.
I've learned coding as a kid, with no friends and no Internet. I didn't do it because it was cool; nerdy stuff was the exact opposite of cool and was likely to get you bullied. I didn't do it because it promised good salary; as a 10-year old, I didn't ponder much about my future, let alone salary. I did it because I was bored, and it was something interesting to do.
I didn't do specific exercises, but rather created whatever I've found interesting. I wasn't graded, I had all the time in the world, and I've enjoyed solving problems. Even if I had access to the Internet, I doubt I would start looking for ready solutions and copy-pasting them. My code was always mine, and I was proud of it; at least at the time.
Of course, nowadays I do stuff I don't enjoy as well. But I'm a grown man who takes responsibility for what I do. And even if my code is shit, it is my shit, and 100% eco.
#NoAI #NoLLM
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