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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 14:59:45 JST Aral Balkan

   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

   • ladyerrant (ladyerrant@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 21:33:22 JST ladyerrant

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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.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 21:33:22 JST Aral Balkan

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     • ladyerrant

     @ladyerrant I hear you.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 22:40:00 JST Aral Balkan

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     • datarama

     @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.

   • datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 22:40:02 JST datarama

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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.

   • datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 22:40:03 JST datarama

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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.

   • Perma (prma@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 22:40:45 JST Perma

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     • ladyerrant

     @ladyerrant @aral it is almost true of an, field. We are just more aware of our own contribution and consequences.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 22:40:45 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Perma
     • ladyerrant

     @prma @ladyerrant Are we though? Really? Not many of us in my experience.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 22:44:06 JST Aral Balkan

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     • datarama

     @datarama Sadly, I’m all too aware :)

   • datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 22:44:08 JST datarama

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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.