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Even just a few years after 9/11, there was an unspoken rule (at least in my liberal teen circles) that caring too much about 9/11 implied approval of everything George W. Bush did, or implied apathy towards the millions of innocent people dying in the Middle East after the fact.

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This loathing found its most recent expression in a bizarre Wired article that amplifies a wide range of false arguments from Pangram skeptics: that AI detectors are racist (they’re not) or ableist (they’re not) or don’t work (this one does).

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“Leopold Aschenbrenner” sounds like someone whose textbook section I didn’t spend enough time reviewing before an AP World History test

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@namitomoon.bsky.social Yeah

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Come on Americans. We didn’t fight the Revolutionary War to be able to say VITE-uh-min and PRY-vuh-see only to draw the line at TYE-ruh-nee. That’s just trisyllabic laxation without representation.

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@hern.bsky.social No they don’t.

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@hern.bsky.social Have you considered: other jobs

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@mike10010100.com It’s literally just some guy too!

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@mollygos.com No one is desperate

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@whstancil.bsky.social You’d think that’d get a mention here, no?

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@whstancil.bsky.social Is there evidence for this?

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@whstancil.bsky.social So I should take that one random guy’s word for it? Is it based on the N-word in Star Wars too?

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@whstancil.bsky.social That one is clearly based on a racial slur.

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@whstancil.bsky.social Ok, but we’re specifically talking about referring to LLMs as clankers

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@whstancil.bsky.social Yeah, not sure where the racism angle is coming from here.

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@whstancil.bsky.social “Clanker” is not based on a racial slur.

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@whstancil.bsky.social No, it’s not related to the N-word.

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@figgityfigs.bsky.social Yeah, I’m interested to see where it crosses the line for some people. Obviously when used to refer to a person for some reason, sure, but not software.

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@josephpolitano.bsky.social No.

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@figgityfigs.bsky.social Sometimes at work people will say things like “Sorry, that was some dead code that the clanker never removed after that one experiment, I’ll clean it up.” It’s fine.

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@jnatc.im Come to think of it I first heard it from the CTO of my company, who is as Gen X as they come.

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@kevinschaul.bsky.social Correct.

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@kevinschaul.bsky.social Yes.

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@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social Kudos to the mods, at least

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@aly.codes When you straight up encode the fact that you’re an asshole in your display name

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@queuedh.bsky.social Hell yea

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@andymasley.bsky.social Yeah

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@bencollins.bsky.social Okay

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@figgityfigs.bsky.social “Tree hugger”

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Help settle a bet: is the thing she’s doing when she comes “coming ’round the mountain,” or is the time she’s coming ’round the mountain “when she comes”?

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I think for a lot of people admitting that something like LLMs can and do work as advertised would require altering their entire worldview, so the easier thing is to just cling to outdated, now-irrelevant experiences they’ve had and insist those experiences persist, or straight up fabricate new ones

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I‘ll just say it: “Pangram is problematic because ‘Africans’ write in such a sophisticated and pure style that their writing is guaranteed to be erroneously flagged as AI-generated” is like, textbook noble savage trope.

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“Intelligent design”…don’t really hear about this so much anymore

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“Hey, what’s your @~?” —Me trying to get someone’s WhatsApp info

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Has anyone who has ever described an LLM as an “X machine” ever not betrayed their complete lack of understanding of how they work even in the slightest?

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Put a freemium tier on GPT 6, call that Ad Astra

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We really saw our high school teachers in a full blown moral panic around Wikipedia being an “unreliable research tool” and collectively decided we’d do that for the next technology to come around huh

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Have you guys heard the new Madonna song “Datacenteria”

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Cory Doctorow out there in the month of our lord July 2026 calling AI models “word-guessing machines.” We deserve everything that’s coming to us.

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Did anyone else pronounce SHTML as “shit-a-mull” in like 1999/2000

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Thankfully Al-Anon is the only organization whose naming scheme works that way, otherwise the families of NBA players would part of something called Nat-Bask-Ass

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I know this is controversial but her name is pronounced “Mizz Rachel”

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The obvious reason everyone watches TV and movies with subtitles now is that they became universal and easy to turn on, and I’m tired of people coming up with too-cute-by-half, enshittification-style explanations that aren’t at all true and don’t even make sense

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Just me or does “Hugging Face” itself sound exactly like malware

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New extremely me pet peeve: people mispronouncing newly introduced proper nouns because they have no idea how to pronounce the identical common noun version, which they’ve never heard. “Claude Mee-thos?” Have you seriously never heard the word mythos before? Maybe look it up?

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A single binational state called Palestein. Problem solved

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They couldn’t say “I’m pathetically addicted to my phone,” so instead these fans made all kinds of other claims. The cost-of-living crisis entitles them to record concerts. Comparisons were made to racial segregation. But the most interesting claim to me was that banning phones hurts the disabled.

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New theory is that they think “generative AI” (obviously distinct from normal AI, as everyone is aware) is the one that’s bad because it sounds like “degenerate.”

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Still fleshing out the take but it’s pretty clear that the invention and spread of the “yuppie” concept out of whole cloth in 1980 essentially created an environment in which an increase of young adults in the population of a city for any reason at all is immediately seen as unnatural and suspicious

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Miles Pooling would make a great name for a boy

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