RE: https://hails.org/@hailey/117069968760959217

but here i am, with asbestos in my walls, in my car brakes, in my oven gloves. i'm not comfortable with it, but the utility is just too great for me to take a principled stance here. i like it, and i want it, so i'm using it. maybe that's morally questionable, or worse. but, as i said: here i am

Hailey [she/her] » 🌐 2026-08-10
@hailey@hails.org

in which the author of xfwl4, XFCE's Wayland implementation, tells us exactly how much his principles are worth https://www.spurint.org/journal/2026/07/llms-and-xfwl4

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But here I am, with a Claude Max 5x subscription for the past year and a half. I’m not comfortable with it, but the utility is just too great for me to take a principled stance here. I like it, and I want it, so I’m using it. Maybe that’s morally questionable, or worse. But, as I said: here I am.

Hello I’d like to spend it all please

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4 panel comic. Panel 1: A pink blob character in suit tells Forg “you did a good business” Panel 2: the pink blob in suit hands forg a dollar bill. He says “here is your pay” Panel 3: forg holds the dollar bill. The man in suit walks off the frame. He reminds forg “don’t spend it all at once” Panel 4: we see now that forg didn’t really listen to his advice. He stands in front of a building labeled “things you don’t need store”, dollar bill still in hand ready to be spent

https://viznut.fi/texts-en/machine_learning_rant.html

honestly i’ve been having a lot of these same thoughts so im glad someone has articulated them for me lol, i knew i couldn’t be the only one with a rational enough mind to think like this

I found the best Costco

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RE: https://dair-community.social/@alex/116977123749133116

I was a 911 dispatcher for a decade.

To really understand how absolutely terrible an idea it is to have AI answer 911 calls, I'll present you with a single real-life call:

Upon answer, the caller calmly began ordering a pizza. Large, pepperoni. Side order of chicken wings. To be delivered promptly.

The only sign the caller gave that things were amiss? She rather ignored the first few questions from the calltaker.

Because she was being physically abused, had already been beaten, and her abuser was *IN THE ROOM* listening to her order pizza.

Tell me how your AI is going to read between those lines.

if your shitty open source project has a shitty genai logo I will simply close the shitty tab and never return

I just really like sunflowers... 🌻

🎨 lines by @warlockmaru.bsky.social , colors and bg by me

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Drawn image of a femme fox wearing an overall-style dress and a green undershirt in a cute pose with their arms behind their back. The background is a large sunflower with golden petals over an irregularly shaped green trapezoid.

how

This is rabbit ears!
A free web tool that lets you search for words and phrases in youtube captions.

I developed it specifically for finding vocal samples, so you can download clips as mp3s right from the interface.

You can also add ur own links for ingestion :3

🐇 https://rabbitears.wangleline.com

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web interface showing a bunch of search results for "oh my god dude" across a bunch of youtube video captions. the style is stolen from the super old, green steam interface

I love how all these open source projects are accepting LLM generated stuff, and when called out on it, they will quickly mention that "this is not the place to debate the ethics of AI".

So my question for everyone saying that is... if not now, when? When will we discuss if the source of the thing you're trying to ram through our throats is acceptable? When will we discuss if you normalising the damage the LLM companies are doing to create these tools is acceptable?

Or are we just going to ignore all the bullshit because it is (according to you) "useful"?

I bet people thought labour from kids sent to the mines was useful... Or that the results from inhumane studies were also useful...

So, I ask of you again, when IS the time and place to discuss the ethical ramifications of you using these things? Because it never seems to be the time for it somehow, isn't that interesting?

every single computer program written by a corporation will eventually betray you yes even that one you really like

tired: mapping the therian polycule
wired: compiling a bestiary

Creature in 466 tris

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A Blocky yinglet represented as a low poly, Playstation 1 character.

only for genius

smoking that shit that makes you plural, smoking that we’d