aleph nora @tindall@cybre.space

@chr or we try to make new tools directly on top of the old, except capitalism ruins that too and we end up with everything we need run by megacorps that use that to cement their power.

and we still churn tools and libraries too much

thought experiment: computers and programming are the way they are because no one wants to fund the blue sky, probably no "return on investment" for years, work in designing and iterating on the interfaces everyone uses in order to make it better

like everyone who programs knows little things they could improve given time. and a lot of people have bigger picture ideas they would explore given free reign

@mxsiege @byttyrs the thing about social media is that it keeps being made of people, often even many of the same people

remember when you were like 15 and all your friends were in the same fandoms and you'd go to anime conventions together, and hang out on the weekends

and now those same friends are working themselves to death everyday doing bullshit work for shit money to pay for college, or are totally dysfunctional NEETs who were chewed up and spit out of adulthood, or are drunk 80% of the time

and the site where you all used to post everyday is now a soulless, empty husk of its former self, having been destroyed by market forces and the futility of running reverse mortgage ads on a site full of zoomers who live like 19th century Russian serfs and will never own a home

So many people love to think they'd be in the resistance against the Nazis, but in reality most people just live their lives and let things happen. "Oh no," they say, "this is bad!" But they support cops, they support the troops, they support their government because it's only the current administration that's the bad guys, really, soon the good guys will be back in charge.

why we tell people we won't use Windows: we know Linux now and we don't like Windows very much, so using it would be pointless

why we actually won't use Windows: unlike any recent version of Windows, we actually feel safe when we use our Linux machines. we feel like we have our own space where we can let our guard down and not worry about the machine turning on us.
Windows has never offered this user experience to us, and probably never will.

u ever just see an incredibly small cis girl with your target aesthetic and want to cry

Amazon is the invisible backbone behind ICE’s immigration crackdown

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612335/amazon-is-the-invisible-backbone-behind-ices-immigration-crackdown/

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unlearning object permanence as self care

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