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@tef in pricipal, i agree with you, but in the spirit of “the purpose of a system is what is does”, the so-called "open web" is the very thing that has created so many of these harms.
surveillance capitalism, pervasive ad-tech, concentration of wealth & power in the hands of billionaire tech bros, abusive social media algorithms, etc.
i misgivings that preserving the "open web" we have is an unmitigated good.
@xgranade If I were less ethical, I’d create 1,000,000 accounts & boost this post 1,000,000 times.
@ccgus I feel like everything Google does is cursed.
@AlSweigart I mean, it's a solved problem. We have an embarrasment of riches in programming languages, we don't need another, less precise one.
Don't let them fool you; AI is only about labor arbitrage, nothing more.
@stefan I had a watch like that as a teenager. It was fine, but it wasn’t wonderful. If they could have done what a modern watch does back then, they would have. I don’t know why you guys romanticize this stuff.
@nixCraft We had a partial set; my parents bought it one volume at a time from a grocery store. I read those suckers cover to cover.
But hanging out at the library after school was epic.
