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This is the kind of stuff I'm talking about. "Programming is art and art is the most human thing ever" okay so is working at a cannery or being a mechanic also "art" or is it not? If your principles hinge on this I think that's an important question blog.glyph.im/2026/10/prog...

"the journalist and novelist are no more important than each other" is the easy case. Do you see journalism as more important than fruit picking, than canning, than sewing usable clothes? The belief in "higher" forms of labor is reactionary and people hate admitting it

"Art is actually an insanely humanist and inherently progressive force" is also just some shit made up by French perverts from the 18th century, similar to concepts like "human rights". Much historical art was mostly about venerating God, not channeling our universalist humanist ideas

I am the first to admit that the acceptance and learning to absorb art when I was young (my first roommate was an art history major) was deeply impactful and profound to me. But the idea that art is an innately progressive force is nothing more than ideology cloaked by modern norms.

As much as I do not believe in individual virtue signalling, and I've always claimed that tech workers were working-class people like any others, I also hope that we're gonna be supportive of communities who might take action to defend themselves and support their community.

If a bunch of people decide to attack a datacentre construction site because it's endangered the water source of their community, I hope that if our analysis is AI is just capitalism evolving, I hope we'll also be there for people who revolt against extraction & to protect their health as workers