Post by @MaddieM4@raphus.social

2026-11-01 19:42 UTC

Slop will not always be popular, and when the bloom is off the rose, I think it should be very difficult to repair your reputation if you embraced them in ways that aren't "my job had an AI mandate and I didn't want to lose my house" type stuff. Boosters have sold out our communities, they have crossed the labor picket line, they have demonstrated a willingness to categorize the environment and art as acceptable losses in the name of personal convenience. They do not have our backs in matters of antifascist resistance. I think most communities should not offer a path back into good grace after that. And if that seems harsh, you have to understand that *this is what they were comfortable doing to us first.* And you can't have that in your crew without expecting more fucking problems from these people that endanger the members worth protecting.

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@MaddieM4@raphus.social 2026-11-01 19:45

This is something I really particularly felt with the LibreOffice drama. Okay. There are people who are trying very hard to protect the world, to the degree they can. You want to make their lives significantly harder? And it's because you're unwilling to make your project very marginally less convenient for the people who are actively trying to burn the world down? Get the fuck out. And don't pretend to be an ally in my mentions.

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@kaneel@mas.to 2026-11-02 13:21

@MaddieM4@raphus.social every app are turning, 2026 is the year, and this is putting me in an embarassing situation. I've been trying to explain to my wife – with whom I have a 15 yo teenager – that the work is changing and I don't know what to do, considering the only thing I had a work experience at is changing… it's not easy to feel forced to keep going because you don't want to put your family in a bad economic situation. I feel a lot of people in our space don't really understand that when you're in these shoes you just are simply forced to go to work everyday and try to figure the alternatives. And as I said, I haven't seen for months a single offer which does not mention an AI positiveness policy. In the meantime, is there a list somewhere online, for all software using AI?

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