mawhrin

ronacher is just the dude who couldn't understand why people call dhh a fascist after dhh wrote his fourteen-words-in-longform blog about london. (paraphrasing: sure, he said, that's not a good blog, but why would people say such terrible words about dhh.)

kat marchán goes by she/they fwiw.

jesus fuck.

nothing formal, but the backlash to criticism is becoming absolutely disproportionate: for example, the person who made the list of slopware, kat marchán, was bullied off the social media by the slop merchants. this looks eerily similar to the right-wing braying about cultural war, where they call harassment any critique of their positions, and call a reasonable critique any harassment they do themselves.

(and just very recently the always very nice CTO and co-founder of the oxide company, a major rust shop, decided that shaming the promoters of the confabulation machines is not to be done at the company.)

think LLM agentic software.

seeing the furious reactions to shaming of the confabulation machine promoters, i can only conclude the shaming works.

and the slop promoters are still crying about the list being abuse; after succesfully abusing marchán out of the internet. one would think they know how to block, but no, they need to silence rather than block.

It is, however, a sign that the situation is much worse than it was months ago, that fascism is progressing, and if this is the point at which someone not paying attention wisens up and goes “shit, we are moving towards a totalitarian nightmare” then good, welcome, grab a pitchfork.

oh, i'm not a pitchfork purist. anyone is welcome to grab one at any time.

i'm a bit conflicted here: on the one hand it's true that the american fascists are now escalating, buyoed by the feeling of being virtually untouchable, but on the other hand, this is not a distinct change of behaviour, it's that they basically widened their target group to include white people too.

the blm protests were fueled not by new knowledge or radically changed police behaviour after all, but by the wider availability of documentation (mainly phone videos).

(and on the gripping hand, extending brutal repressions to a majority group is a sign of escalation. but that only means that a large population of u.s. residents, i.e. the non-white ones, live and have always lived in a totalitarian state; the totalitarianism just wasn't evenly distributed until trump.)

my condolences; we've gone through similar with our previous cats, all rescuees, and even when you know it's the right decision, the pain is still there.

i'm so sorry. (tentative hug of support, if acceptable.)

also moskovitz is a bloody ai cultist, proselytising to anyone near at bluesky