Post AicRJEufIvCY5LP46K by datarama@hachyderm.io
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(DIR) Post #AibmE8WzVYxoivmIPQ by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-06-05T05:59:31Z
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but don’t be the douchebag oiling the gears of fascism.Tech folks… tech folks need to hear this.#BigTech #fascism
(DIR) Post #AicKTqiIuy1UXRjXQ8 by ladyerrant@mastodon.social
2024-06-05T12:23:13Z
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@aral I cant tell you how much it sucks to be someone with a conscience in tech today. I have to dodge using world-ending technologies while pretending I'm ok with them. I have to carefully navigate which projects I get assigned so I dont end up being complicit in something terrible. I've wanted out so many times, but I'm the primary income source for my family and I dont have any other marketable skills. I feel so trapped.
(DIR) Post #AicLMOVTUZHmz1k2xk by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-06-05T12:33:04Z
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@ladyerrant I hear you.
(DIR) Post #AicNSxlfVL99zQZmZU by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-06-05T12:56:41Z
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@aral I had a conversation today about how horrible it must be to be a person with a conscience across pretty much every industry. You work in advertising? You're manipulating people for profit. You work in garments? You're creating mountains of pollution heaped onto the Global South. You work in journalism? You're writing manipulative clickbait.And you're probably a good person, anyway. Your work got turned evil by economic forces outside your control.
(DIR) Post #AicRJEufIvCY5LP46K by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-06-05T13:00:43Z
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@aral Perhaps it's just because software is my own trade, but I think the software industry has been uniquely disgusting in this process. *Why* does that poor journalist have to produce shitty clickbait? *Why* is advertising now synonymous with surveillance? Because of the software industry.Software did eat the world - and in the process, it unsurprisingly made the world into shit, half-digested by software.
(DIR) Post #AicRJFk4DoJmelS7Dk by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-06-05T13:39:44Z
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@datarama The very fact that ‘eat the world’ is taken as a positive should tell you all you need to know about what a psychopathic system this is.
(DIR) Post #AicRNFQ7MNiYoi1gYa by prma@fosstodon.org
2024-06-05T12:42:08Z
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@ladyerrant @aral it is almost true of an, field. We are just more aware of our own contribution and consequences.
(DIR) Post #AicRNGlmLKdf0BAUxU by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-06-05T13:40:29Z
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@prma @ladyerrant Are we though? Really? Not many of us in my experience.
(DIR) Post #AicRYIwkabpswHYv1U by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-06-05T13:42:14Z
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@aral In fairness, I picked that phrase because it's a direct quote from Marc Andreessen - a uniquely reliable source of psychopathic language.
(DIR) Post #AicRffvTYDMEEfTqz2 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-06-05T13:42:30Z
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@datarama Sadly, I’m all too aware :)
(DIR) Post #AicSYaKK4PpWnTHlJ2 by prma@fosstodon.org
2024-06-05T13:53:36Z
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@aral @ladyerrant coming from an architecture background, yes. There is an almost institutional desensetization about the consequences of the designs for the users and the environment. Some of the most renowned architects don't give shit. As an example:https://www.dezeen.com/2014/02/26/qatar-zaha-hadid-stadium/
(DIR) Post #AicsoAQmiPxHvMOnCK by jgkoomey@mastodon.energy
2024-06-05T18:47:52Z
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@aral Yes, they definitely do need to hear this!