2026-09-17 18:20 UTC
I'll give my reasons, by way of putting my proverbial money where my proverbial mouth is: I worked in quantum computing for approximately twenty years, making damn sure that whatever public money put towards QC research was backed up by open source projects and not locked away from the same public that funded it.
When I transitioned, I was discarded like so much garbage, despite transformational contributions to the field. So I left QC and tech more generally.
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@xgranade@wandering.shop 2026-09-17 18:22
About a year ago, though, this AI fuckshit hit something I care deeply and passionately about: books. The lead developer of the e-book manager I depend so heavily on to enable reading and delighting in the written form decided to betray their own wonderful gift, and to undermine the artistry of the written word with AI. Now I'm diving back into open source again with a very singular purpose — to protect art from AI. I know why I'm doing this, and that helps more than I can say.