2025-08-26, 0923h, On hating AI and performing normativity

It’s kind of heart-breaking, reading Fediverse posts, from people who hate artificial intelligence, complaining about the difficulty in performing normativity in their white-collar workplaces, especially the psychic damage of doing so. They could move a good chunk of that thinking from their wetware to this new software, but performing American leftism by hating AI is more important to them than reducing the harms of other forms of performance.