It was one of those weeks last week at Hackaday’s home office. My mother-in-law handed me her favorite power bank and said “it’s not charging”. She had every expectation that I’ll open it up, desol…
Probably because you are still refusing to look at this any way other than a naive techy who sees everything as a series of individual technical problems and cannot grasp the systematic, social forces shaping the technology and data collection around them to violent and dysfunctional ends.
This article laments about a number of things that have systematic, definable origins that society has warned tech industry workers about… as if they were simply indecipherable expressions of a chaotic universe full of people who aren’t as smart as techies that always for some reason desperately need their help to accomplish basic things with the tools from the industry they work in.
There is a crisis of individuality in the politics of US tech workers, and it is far past nauseating, it is offensive to all the people being hurt right now by the tools these people are involved with building.
For techies this article is the equivalent of a humorous XKCD about losing time on the weekends helping normies, and honestly that kind of vibe is fucking insufferable at this late date. Wake up you fools, you are hurting people. Unionize NOW or you continue to be complicit in this no matter what you lament about in your words or how many family members you help in your off time set up their device.
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Perhaps I’m too dumb to understand it, but I don’t see how your comment is relevant to the article.
Probably because you are still refusing to look at this any way other than a naive techy who sees everything as a series of individual technical problems and cannot grasp the systematic, social forces shaping the technology and data collection around them to violent and dysfunctional ends.
This article laments about a number of things that have systematic, definable origins that society has warned tech industry workers about… as if they were simply indecipherable expressions of a chaotic universe full of people who aren’t as smart as techies that always for some reason desperately need their help to accomplish basic things with the tools from the industry they work in.
There is a crisis of individuality in the politics of US tech workers, and it is far past nauseating, it is offensive to all the people being hurt right now by the tools these people are involved with building.
For techies this article is the equivalent of a humorous XKCD about losing time on the weekends helping normies, and honestly that kind of vibe is fucking insufferable at this late date. Wake up you fools, you are hurting people. Unionize NOW or you continue to be complicit in this no matter what you lament about in your words or how many family members you help in your off time set up their device.