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              "plaintext": "> There is a strange thing that happens in communities that gather around abstinence from something: identity from opposition. At their best these communities are not just negative: childfree spaces can be about autonomy, choice and acceptance, anti-car spaces about safer streets and transit, and LLM-skeptical developer spaces about the future of labor, code quality and slop 1 . But the thing being refused often does not go away and instead becomes the main subject of the community’s identity. Th…"
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              "description": "<p>There is a strange thing that happens in communities that gather around\nabstinence from something: identity from opposition.  At their best these\ncommunities are not <em>just</em> negative: childfree spaces can be about autonomy,\nchoice and acceptance, anti-car spaces about safer streets and transit, and\nLLM-skeptical developer spaces about the future of labor, code quality and\nslop<sup class=\"footnote-ref\" id=\"fnref-1\"><a href=\"#fn-1\">1</a></sup>.  But the thing being refused often does not go away and instead\nbecomes the main subject of the community’s identity.</p>\n<p>That would be fine if it stayed at criticism, maybe even angry criticism, but\nmore often than not it turns into policing and hatred towards others.  An\ninfluencer without children becomes a parent, an urban bike commuter by choice\nbuys a Porsche, a respected developer tries LLMs, and the community feels\nbetrayed because it assumed they were members of the same tribe.  The expulsion\nof that person (who never signed up to be a community member) is entirely\nimaginary but the punishment that the community unleashes is not: people pile on\nand shame them, quote them out of context and turn their weakest moments into\nproof that the person was always unserious, a sharlatan or should not be\nlistened to.</p>\n<p>I do not think the answer is to tell people to stop paying attention.  Cars\nshape cities even for people who cycle, children influence politics, workplaces\nand taxes even for people who do not have them.  Fo…",
              "title": "Communities of Not",
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  "textContent": "> There is a strange thing that happens in communities that gather around abstinence from something: identity from opposition. At their best these communities are not just negative: childfree spaces can be about autonomy, choice and acceptance, anti-car spaces about safer streets and transit, and LLM-skeptical developer spaces about the future of labor, code quality and slop 1 . But the thing being refused often does not go away and instead becomes the main subject of the community’s identity. Th…\n\n<p>There is a strange thing that happens in communities that gather around\nabstinence from something: identity from opposition.  At their best these\ncommunities are not <em>just</em> negative: childfree spaces can be about autonomy,\nchoice and acceptance, anti-car spaces about safer streets and transit, and\nLLM-skeptical developer spaces about the future of labor, code quality and\nslop<sup class=\"footnote-ref\" id=\"fnref-1\"><a href=\"#fn-1\">1</a></sup>.  But the thing being refused often does not go away and instead\nbecomes the main subject of the community’s identity.</p>\n<p>That would be fine if it stayed at criticism, maybe even angry criticism, but\nmore often than not it turns into policing and hatred towards others.  An\ninfluencer without children becomes a parent, an urban bike commuter by choice\nbuys a Porsche, a respected developer tries LLMs, and the community feels\nbetrayed because it assumed they were members of the same tribe.  The expulsion\nof that person (who never signed up to be a community member) is entirely\nimaginary but the punishment that the community unleashes is not: people pile on\nand shame them, quote them out of context and turn their weakest moments into\nproof that the person was always unserious, a sharlatan or should not be\nlistened to.</p>\n<p>I do not think the answer is to tell people to stop paying attention.  Cars\nshape cities even for people who cycle, children influence politics, workplaces\nand taxes even for people who do not have them.  Fo…",
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