#norms — Public Fediverse posts

Don’t be a meat proxy for an LLM

I’m very glad someone has put a name to this behaviour. I sometimes do it on my blog because user-model interaction is often part of how I think, but I don’t think I ever do this in communication with others for precisely this reason:

Too often I ask a question in Slack or leave feedback under a merge/pull request or argue with friends in a WhatsApp group and get back:

Claude said: [giant response verbatim]

Please don’t do this. I mean, I’ve done this. But I’ve been on the receiving end too many times now. This is not adding value. I can talk to Claude myself. It’s going to be faster and I get to control the context. I don’t need a meat proxy in between.

Reading AI output is extra effort. It’s verbose, frequently contains all too plausible nonsense, and is increasingly jargon dense. I recently got this sentence from Claude:

NATS control-plane events: stream leader election / R3 quorum re-form during pod churn.

Jesus. I had to lookup almost every word to make sense of this.

By all means, prompt AI. But don’t just relay the output. Read it, understand it, validate it, and then write a response in your own words (a decent certificate that you’ve done the prior steps). Making that effort is value you can add.

https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/

If I do ever slip into doing this, I think I’m going to stop now I’ve got a name for it.

My neighbor tells me
my love for you defies sense.
Yet I'm still happy.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #love #norms #CulturalNorms #UnconditionalLove #freedom #philosophy #tolerance #PersonalChoice

'Europe’s narrative is constructed on the exclusion of colonialism from its history, allowing the ideology of Europe’s racelessness. […] The disremembering of the colonial past shapes the contemporary perception of Europe as a progressive well-intentioned neutral mediator. Moreover, this colonial amnesia produces Europeans of color as outsiders and “aliens” threatening to the liberal continent’s identity.'

'Thus, racialized Europeans are forever “just arriving” and forgotten in the construction of a contemporary European identity. The book gives examples of continent’s Roma and Sinti populations who have resided in Europe for half a millennium and are constantly marginalized as foreigners.'

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#activism #culture #identity #norms #normality #Europeanness #whiteness #raceMaking #racialization #ElTayeb #Europe #postColonialism #racelessness #colorblind #raceMaking #colourblind #racism #diaspora #Belgium #France #Netherlands #NL #Germany #Austria #Italy #Spain #Portugal #Hungary #postNational

Over-tourism: this is what it looks like in #Japan -- #lowquality #tourists who behave without consideration for regulations, & made no efforts to understand & respect local #norms. #overtourism #irresponsible

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️Two #Americans decide to hike Mt. Fuji before #trails open, both need #rescues on back-to-back days
"In separate instances, man in sandals and woman who’d never been to Mt. #Fuji before both require #emergency #assistance to get off Japan’s #tallest #mountain."
https://soranews24.com/2025/07/07/two-americans-decide-to-hike-mt-fuji-before-trails-open-both-need-to-be-rescued-in-same-weekend/