Post by @xgranade@wandering.shop

2026-09-17 18:22 UTC

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.

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@aud@spectre.asta.lgbt 2026-09-17 18:42

@xgranade@wandering.shop I don't want anyone to grow up like I did: gay, trans, different, in a harshly religious environment with no access to any information that tells me I'm not alone, that I'm not bad, that there's a way out, that the abuse isn't *right* or *correct* no matter how much they frame it as "godly", and that there can be joy and love and food and acceptance in my life. The internet was a lifeline for me: finding others like myself, finding the experiences they've written about it, in their own words. That is worth preserving. That's why I'm trying to do things.

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@xgranade@wandering.shop 2026-09-17 18:25

(As ever, I want to make sure that I am both thanking Kovid Goyal for his nearly immeasurable gift and also criticizing him for deciding to betray his own efforts. Both can be, and I posit are, true.)

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