I'm tired of pretending tech makes things better.  I'm tired of kidding myself that all these apps, these chatbots, these "tools" are doing anything but dragging us into the mud and the shit and calling it progress.  I sat down at a cafe a few days ago, hungry and ready
  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    It didn’t have to be this way; in a different kind of society it could have been a boon to everyone.

    Please continue to espouse this viewpoint even under serious argument from those opposing it. Technology isn’t inevitably shit. There are other types of software we can write, and other types of technology we can develop that isn’t the result of some sweaty CTO hovering over our shoulders demanding that we make the world shittier for the sake of the shareholders.

    We have to imagine the worlds we could’ve created through better choices. We have to imagine that we can change the course of things.