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1. Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 18:41:36 JST Baldur Bjarnason

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   You can have a tech that is mostly used for fraud, bankrupts the elderly, or even literally kills people, but tech enthusiasts will defend it by saying it saves five minutes on their morning breakfast routine

   It’s a worldview where individual benefit, no matter how trivial, trumps societal harm. There’s no arguing with people who respond to “this will destroy lives” with: “but I find it useful”

   • Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 18:41:37 JST Baldur Bjarnason

     99% of tech social media:

     “I like this thing, but people say it’s bad so here is a list of self-serving reasons why I should be allowed to like it. They’re my soothing koans to calm the phantom pain of my long-amputated conscience”

     “No, none of them actually address the criticism. Why do you ask?”

     Aral Balkan repeated this.