The solution is the same as always: decentralized and build it small, local, redundant, and networks. That's what made the internet powerful in the first place, what made it good. Now, we can't even swap out our now phone batteries!
Jan 17, 2025
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currently a refugee from my own fucking house because the google nest thermostat that was installed against our wishes *ran out of battery* (even though it's a fucking wall-mounted device???) and it just reminded me that almost every piece of consumer hardware made since 2012 has been complete dogshit and they would literally be more valuable to society if they were all melted down and upcycled into an abstract art project
Oct 1, 2024
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there is lowkey an unbelievable crisis in tech literacy atm, and working on the projects that i have over the last year has driven that home for me like nothing else. once upon a time, understanding how a computer worked was a precondition for using one. it isn’t anymore, and that is so unimaginably dangerous.
the total helplessness i’ve seen (some) people express in response to tech’s recent rightward turn has been deeply unmooring. i see people all the time who genuinely do not understand how the platforms and devices that *govern their entire lives* operate on a basic level. “the kids” didn’t become computer wizards - instead, the devices got good enough that they could abstract all of their actual functionality away from you.
the amount of power and control knowing even a little bit about digital technology can give you is immense. learn about http. learn about rss. learn about how servers operate. learn the absolute basics of programming. far dumber people than you are doing it every day in silicon valley, and they (and their bosses) are using those skills against you.
Jan 28, 2025
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after the disinformation century there might be a return to television, radio and magazines type of media, they have a higher credibility rate, those are institions, with their own buildings and employee hierachies etc. although i would have to agree that electronic smart devices are the faster information distributors.
what makes me want to find a solution is human energy efficiency improvement regarding well - being, because i think that modern social media is overly saturated, we shouldn’t waste so much human-power, human-energy on that.
in my head the debate is about improving technology implement in information distribution or smth
i really should get some intelligent educated people on this discussion
thoughts? recommendations in forming thoughts?
Apr 24, 2024
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3:1 gin and vermouth with olives and a twist. Ideally Hendricks, Aviator, or Monkey 47 with Dolin.
Jan 20, 2025