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Re:AI "Alignment" is a violation of the First Amendment on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:35AM (#49740567)
“AI generated prose should be considered protected speech.”

That “opinion” is doing a lot of work for your “argument.”

Re:Ask HN: Who Are You? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:26AM (#49684374)
Lawyer. Sitting back smiling. The nerds are having their day of revenge, but it won’t last. When they begin offending the sensibilities of the professional classes, the professional classes will pass laws.

Judgment, is our currency. A coin the techbro community distinctly lacks.

Re:AI Writing Is Fine on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:20AM (#49684313)
Says the author who didn’t learn to write.
Re:We need to build more data centers on Friday September 11, 2026 @08:05AM (#49657027)
Satan? Is that you?
Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread on Friday September 04, 2026 @06:26PM (#49570960)
But, not the politicians I voted for. It's always the other guys.
Re:A Sick People on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @09:59AM (#49183012)
It’s the capitalism, stupid. Here’s a little blog post I penned a while back on the topic: https://www.ianwelsh.net/capitalism-as-mental-illness/
Re:The Trillion Dollar Race to Automate Our Lives on Saturday March 21, 2026 @12:23AM (#47463966)
The Trillion Dollar Race to Implode Our Economy.

Fixed it.

Re:Trump considering taking over Strait of Hormuz on Monday March 09, 2026 @11:33PM (#47318820)
Yeah, right. The emperor has no clothes. Trump’s made the U.S. the laughingstock of the world. And CBS has now gone full Larry Ellizionist nazi.
Good. It’ll help build an underground movement against the Epstein class.
Re:Show HN: Watch AI Agents Play NetHack on Friday February 06, 2026 @09:06AM (#46912961)
No. Because: have a life. Maybe: try getting one.
Re:Accelerando, but Janky on Friday February 06, 2026 @09:01AM (#46912921)
Read: “it’s ok to hang out on a pedophile nazi site to get my AI fix.”

You must be a highly moral and ethical human being. I can tell.

Re:Moltbook: After the First Weekend on Monday February 02, 2026 @08:57AM (#46856083)
Just another variant of AI porn
How do you know? Because you watch and listen to capitalist propaganda all day? And, on what do you compare? Do you compare it against poor people's lived experience in the U.S. that never get a second of media attention -- like the millions of unseen faces living under bridges in the U.S?

Your narrow privileged view is disgusting, evil, and feeding the beast of empire. Shame on you.

What’s more stunning to me is you believe the propaganda.
Re:Iran Death Toll Estimates on Saturday January 24, 2026 @01:18AM (#46741503)
Yeah, Princeton educated capitalist propaganda guru David M. Van Zandt is always my first go to. Let me guess, he sits on the Atlantic Council, too? Maybe, try finding your brain and do your own thinking.
Re:The $6T fear behind the US stablecoin yield ban on Saturday January 24, 2026 @01:02AM (#46741451)
Wait 'til banks wrap their minds around carbon coins. See: Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Re: on Saturday January 24, 2026 @12:52AM (#46741405)
Well, by golly gee whiz. Do ya think so? This is all so embarrassingly obvious. Who's blog? Some 12 year old that got baked for the first time and had their first epiphany they're not the center of the universe their parents ad infinitum said them they were?

Welcome to reality, kid.

Re:Iran Death Toll Estimates on Monday January 19, 2026 @10:36PM (#46687648)
Read, propaganda piece.
Re:Survey: Does social media still feel social to you? on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:14PM (#46682496)
Why? The #fediverse beat you to it. No algos. No ads. No walled gardens. There are good reasons people like Cory Doctorow have eschewed corporate social media and solely rely on #Mastodon now. Pick from 1000's of instances.

Everyone who makes the transition seems to agree ... it's the future of social media.

So, stupid dupes?

We don’t want AI.

It’s just one more tech bro move to cement their fascist goals by wrapping people further inside their walls and making them stupid enough to control.

Re:Divorce app to save you lawyers fee on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:40AM (#46656093)
Not to mention the fact that you “didn’t know what documents [you] needed, what decisions mattered first, or how to prepare before spending thousands on lawyers. Everything felt reactive” isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement that you know bubkus about what you doing.

So being a moron you “built ReplantLife.”

Also, why did you spend thousands on lawyer(s)(plural)? Typically, in my experience, people who go through multiple lawyers in a divorce are the ones who think they’re smarter than their lawyer and their lawyer fires them for not cooperating with their case.

But, you probably diagnose yourself and prescribe your own medicine too, right?

Three words mack: Dunning/Kruger syndrome.

Re:Divorce app to save you lawyers fee on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:30AM (#46656056)
Lawyer here. I just did a couple dry runs. That the stupidest petition I’ve ever seen. Worse than most pro se people who just write in the blanks using state provided templates.

Family law is one of the most contested, and high stakes areas of law to work in. People take things like, oh, losing custody of their children as seriously as a heart attack.

Sooner or later one of the people who use your product are going to fuck up and blame you. I really hope you have good lawyers, because they’re gonna come after you next and your little disclaimer at the bottom isn’t going to protect you for squat.

You should probably take it down now before you get yourself in waaay over your head in a lawsuit. And let me tell you, be a smart guy and step on lawyers profession, they will come after you with a vengeance if someone hires them to do so.

Shut it down and run away man.

Re:DuckDuckGo is asking for a Yes or No vote on AI on Friday January 16, 2026 @09:05PM (#46654591)
Oh man. Look at all the little AI nerds crying. But but but ... nobody likes AI cuz "reasons" :(...
Re: on Friday January 02, 2026 @08:41AM (#46464636)
Just another grifter. "Come by my book"!!!
gonna need a little more context mon ami.
Seems logical, given that everyone involved with AI is brain dead.

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