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1. Peter H. Fröhlich (phf@mastodon.acm.org)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 17:05:42 JST Peter H. Fröhlich

   I have made up my mind: There's no point to technology anymore. Planes are falling apart or out of the sky; space tech is so shitty they can't bring their people back; cars are driving "smart" circles around each other, honking at random; nobody even remembers what a paper trail was good for; systems are explicitly designed to NOT be serviced, ever; the internet is being flooded with useless junk, no end in sight; and the globe is burning while the bros are training. Fuck this shit. I am out.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 17:05:38 JST Aral Balkan

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     @phf I hear you but we don’t have to let the asshats determine how we do things. We don’t have to play by their rules. We can make tech differently.

     https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 14:18:29 JST Aral Balkan

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     @phf Thanks!

     Darn thing is, we’re the many, they’re the few. And their whole stupid system relies on their convincing us that the inverse is true; that we’re powerless when we’re the power they fear most.

     Let’s build the alternatives so people can see that alternatives are possible and understand that they’re not beholden to living within the toxic confines of the teenage worldview of a handful of sexually frustrated Silicon Valley man-babies.

   • Peter H. Fröhlich (phf@mastodon.acm.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 14:18:30 JST Peter H. Fröhlich

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral I am sure we can. And I love the optimism. But the pessimist in me says "it won't matter because we are few and they are many" and that's (sadly!) that. 😞