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passenger@kolektiva.social ("Passenger") wrote:
I'm not gonna link to it here or mention the dude's name.
The very short version is that he is a very senior tech dude on the business side rather than the actual coding side, has worked in Google and places like that. The sort of person who we think of as belonging on LinkedIn. The sort who thinks tech happens in meeting rooms rather than in command lines. You know the type.
Anyway, he posted a thread about how Mastodon is not going to be taken seriously until we stop being mean to AI aficionados. As he wrote it turned into something of a meltdown, with the term bubble used extensively, and finally led to comparisons between Black people not feeling welcome on Mastodon (which is a problem and sucks) and AI boosters not feeling welcome (which is good and proper and we should bully them more.)
After a great deal of pushback, he said he was going to back off and reconsider, which is the classy thing to do; and then got back into fighting with individuals, which is not.
There are some very thoughtful comments on the matter by various people.