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Our internal slack channels contain more and more AI-written posts, which makes me think: Thank you for throwing this wall of text on me and n other people. Now, n people need to extract the relevant information, so you are able to “save time” not writing the text yourself. Nice!!!

I think this is one of your best bets as far as getting a real policy change. Bring it up, mention that posts like that may take less time to “write”, but that they’re almost always obnoxiously verbose, contain paragraphs that say essentially nothing, and take far longer to read than a hand-typed message would. The argument that one person is saving time at the expense of dozens (?) of people losing time may carry a lot of weight, especially if these bosses are in and read the same Slack channel.

Past that I’d just let things go as they are, and take every opportunity to point out when AI made a problem, or made a problem more difficult to solve (while downplaying human-created problems).

Why not? FDR had a podcast.

I still thinks his takes were bad and tone-deaf. I get that he liked a certain appointee Trump made that’s relevant to his industry. And, knowing nothing at all about the appointee myself, they may in actuality be a good pick. But he went well beyond praising the appointee, to praising Trump and Republicans in general - albeit for the specific narrow topic of “reigning in big tech”.

While his takes were arguably valid given recent history (I’d still say not), it was completely tone deaf to the reality of what the present-day Republican party and Trump mean for America, and especially ignorant of the obvious buddying-up big tech has done with Trump in the past few months.

I think if he narrowly aimed his praise at the appointee herself, without then making sweeping generalities about Republicans vs. Democrats, that nobody here would even be aware of who he is, let alone what he said.

I do think the internet in general tends to be very reactionary - I don’t think Lemmy is any more reactionary than, say, reddit, but both are very reactionary. Anyone who jumps ship over this guy’s comment will just end up jumping ship again from whatever their new ship is, after that company makes some move they see as imperfect in a few months or years. No company is perfect. Proton is at least great.

I’ll vouch for Proton. The recent controversy wasn’t great but it’s also a single negative incident for a company that has otherwise had a pretty stellar track record. I recommend reading his responses in the reddit AMA he did after the incident. I still think he’s a fool, but I don’t think he’s fascist or that there’s any reason at all to doubt the privacy, security, or direction of the company, which is both partly open source and regularly audited.

I’ve been using ProtonMail for probably around 7 years now and it’s been great.