Post AhpYuX0JUjsMDaTfPM by xgranade@wandering.shop
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(DIR) Post #AhbccJFNaG4XwVeUee by irenes@mastodon.social
2024-05-05T22:07:46Z
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@xgranade @trochee *sigh* it's the ideological component
(DIR) Post #AhbccJjrkuSVT3uqAq by xgranade@wandering.shop
2024-05-05T22:08:41Z
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@irenes @trochee "Tech for the sake of tech is an inherent good" isn't that far from the "powerful are powerful because they are good."
(DIR) Post #AhbccKxNEArFFFF8ro by irenes@mastodon.social
2024-05-05T22:09:00Z
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@xgranade @trochee anyway, the operative word is "almost". we just have to all keep doing the stuff we're doing to get these points across. it's working, just, slowly and with a deeply unfair amount of resistance.
(DIR) Post #Ahp1OZ1T9ntMj0AQZE by trochee@dair-community.social
2024-05-05T20:47:27Z
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Every once in a while I am amazed that one of the contenders for social media dominance right now is literally named "blue sky"It's a term from project planning, and I'm pretty sure it's intended to mean "what you do if there were no constraints"1/2
(DIR) Post #Ahp1OanMZDnSDpaBrE by trochee@dair-community.social
2024-05-05T20:48:13Z
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figuratively, "blue sky" is about halfway between "pie in the sky" (unrealistically optimistic) and "fair-weather friend/soldier" (someone who cannot be relied upon in hard times) That they entirely overlook these rhetorical ankle-breaking potholes (as bad as "Uber", I mean, really) is the best evidence yet that the software engineering industry needs humanities people 2/2
(DIR) Post #AhpYuWMFtfpiDLjfyC by timethief@zirk.us
2024-05-05T22:24:54Z
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@xgranade @irenes @trochee Are they not the same statement? I could have sworn you just copied and pasted to save time.
(DIR) Post #AhpYuX0JUjsMDaTfPM by xgranade@wandering.shop
2024-05-05T22:26:04Z
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@timethief @irenes @trochee There's a slight gap between the two, I think: namely, the recognition that technology is a form of power structure and of capital in particular.
(DIR) Post #Ahqisoz8rceq6diFtY by OETearmann@creativewriting.social
2024-05-06T00:03:40Z
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@xgranade @irenes @trochee sounds disturbingly like the logic of the divine right of kings, donnit?*SHUDDERS*
(DIR) Post #AhqispvHNTA70wugVs by xgranade@wandering.shop
2024-05-06T00:37:49Z
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@OETearmann @irenes @trochee I'd argue somewhat worse. Divine right of kings implies that it's inherent to the king, not a property of power itself. The tautology of power (to borrow Jeff Sharlet's term) goes further to say that power, no matter how it is obtained, is one defines one as being good.
(DIR) Post #Ahqisqspo2nhzemFLE by xgranade@wandering.shop
2024-05-06T00:38:14Z
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@OETearmann @irenes @trochee (You'd be right to accuse me, though, of some hairsplitting at that point. They're all fucking bad.)
(DIR) Post #AhqisrhAmt4CVmKRns by OETearmann@creativewriting.social
2024-05-06T01:20:01Z
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@xgranade @irenes @trochee I hear you; I was comparing it as being on the same level of ''well I like it, so be happy with it, so there!'' It gets dressed up in a lot of language, but when you strip that away, you realize how childishly wrong it really sounds.
(DIR) Post #Ahx6RlZD1pKhXAyToG by xgranade@wandering.shop
2024-05-05T21:18:14Z
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@trochee See also: Soylent, Palantir, and anything involving the word "metaverse."
(DIR) Post #AhxQeHc5hjTTTzZIem by trochee@dair-community.social
2024-05-05T21:34:21Z
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@xgranade yeah, "blue sky" absolutely feels like a Torment Nexus namebut swapping genre from SFF to whatever genre contains Office Space, Severance, The Office, Microserfs, etc"fin-du-20⁰-siècle bureaucratic decadent""Dunder-Mifflinique"
(DIR) Post #AhxQeILoxi3Ploxow4 by xgranade@wandering.shop
2024-05-05T21:47:48Z
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@trochee Software engineering, as a discipline, seems to be almost immune to social critique.