can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.

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And the reason that happened is because local repro rights and repro justice groups went and talked to people in their communities and spoke their language. Meanwhile it took Joe Biden like three years to say the word Abortion on TV. I wrote about it: rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/07/30/f...

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Congratulations to @mychal3ts.bsky.social to whom the California Library Association has awarded its CLA President’s Award in recognition of outstanding contributions, leadership, and achievement in support of California libraries - truly none more deserving than the Lord of the Stacks!

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The websites part is fine. The people pushing LLMs too hard is less great

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I worked at Github for eleven days as a contractor doing spam fighting. I don't know if I was fired b/c they saw I'd signed a lot of my (unreasonable amount of) paperwork "Abolish ICE" or because I, at the advice of my boss, used a computer which was not my own for a few hours. Probably the former.

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