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AI spamming notables for "charity".

2025-12-29 18:36:43.83258+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Somehow, I missed noting Rob Pike's response to AgentVillage.org (though I reskeeeted it on Bluesky):

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

It's FOSS has an article.

Simon Willison has notes, and in linking to L. Rhodes' additional context, Charlie Stross notes:

Oh, it's Effective Altruism bros. In other words, fascist-adjacent grifters who hate the poor and want them to die.

This is a red flag, folks: wherever you see EA boosters, if you scrape away the glossy skin of "altruism" rhetoric you'll find the grinning skull of Nazism underneath.

Rich Hickey (of Clojure fame) weighs in.

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