Thank you, ZZT. I’m sorry that I’m so frustrated today. It just seems like absolutely everything is going wrong. AI slop code/digital asbestos is a likely factor.

So…

My campaign is about to launch.

I wouldn’t be doing this if I still had a livelihood.

I lost my livelihood due to my refusal to subject my students to Gen AI.

I hate “e-begging.” But I’m forced to. I’m months behind in rent.

So please…

The campaign prelaunch page will let you sign up to be notified of when I do launch. My campaign has already been approved, and every book Kickstarter I’ve done, I’ve kept my promises and fulfilled as promised.

This is my anti-Gen AI whistleblower memoir.

Please share the link on your social media, especially outside of the Fediverse.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    10·
    17 days ago

    So, I recognize the name “Kim Crawley”, and I figure it can’t hurt to give some context so folks who run across this thread can have more background information.

    First off, Kim Crawley is part of a political activism organization called “Stop Gen AI”. And David Gerard (of “Pivot to AI” and “Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain” fame) endorses them quite frequently. For instance, he calls them a “real grassroots anti-AI group” which “talks like people and not like cultists or marketers or cult marketers” in this video.

    Second, Stop Gen AI and Kim Crawley herself are extremely pro-DPRK and they make pro-DPRK advocacy part of their anti-Gen-AI advocacy. (Just to back that up, see this video on Stop Gen AI’s Peertube channel. There’s a bit of that near the beginning and also some at around 47:29.) (I’m sure some folks here will see this as a reason to endorse and/or support her/them/the Kickstarter and some will see it as a reason not to. I’m just sharing information.)

    Now, does the fact that David Gerard endorses a pro-DPRK organization mean he’s also pro-DPRK? Dunno. I sent him a message (a “Private Mention”) on Mastodon on September 18th asking that very question and have yet to receive a response.

    Anyway, the Kickstarter in question appears to be here.

    (Oh, and I don’t know what ZZT is.)

    Edit: Oh, it appears “ZZT” is this person who is also this person. Apparently Kim Crawley and ZZT don’t like me very much. Sounds like it was before that exchange that I was banned from… not sure. mas.to? awful.systems? Both? I wonder what for.

  • kat_angstrom@lemmy.world
    9·
    20 days ago

    Perhaps unfortunately, I’m afraid your approach is rather… Sideways. To me anyways.

    I don’t know you and I don’t know your story other then what you wrote in your post. If you have a kickstarter as mentioned in your post, you can share that in your post (and I’m surprised that you didn’t).

    I sympathize, but respectfully, I’m not going to share your links out anywhere, to anyone, for a book that hasn’t come out yet, that I haven’t read. This is standard operating procedure, to ensure that the content I hype is worth hyping, so the people around me know that what I hype is what I put my seal of approval on. Especially lacking any sample chapters, based only on a cover, title, and short blurb that begins with acronyms I don’t understand. (What even is ZZT?)