Notices by Xandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)

@foone I shutter to think what would happen if someone plugged that into an actual mini-USB port, expecting it to be an adapter.

@iximeow <link rel="pronouns" href="urn:pronoun-set:en-US:possessive-hers:personal-she" />

@mcc Also wow if radiation doesn't fuck with electronics. Turns out the atmosphere is remarkably good at filtering most cosmic rays out!

@irenes @trochee "Tech for the sake of tech is an inherent good" isn't that far from the "powerful are powerful because they are good."

@trochee Software engineering, as a discipline, seems to be almost immune to social critique.

@trochee See also: Soylent, Palantir, and anything involving the word "metaverse."

In which techbros really want a commbadge but don't want the Star Trek utopia of a world without capitalism and a world where all needs are met.

https://writing.exchange/@ianbetteridge/112254082307843154

So, this is dystopian as fuck.

https://seattle.eater.com/2023/8/14/23832221/downtown-spirits-liquor-store-just-walk-out-tech-amazon