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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mxchara@seattle.pink ("Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen") wrote:
One of the dirtiest of dirty secrets in the #tech sector is a very simple one: the "techno-optimism" and the "e/acc" and all the other ways of superficially honoring the notion that the technology corporations of the United States are guiding everyone into a future of abundance and high-tech miracles, the practical spirit of U.S. #technology is profoundly conservative, hidebound, stagnant, and focused only on an exceedingly thin assortment of hot topics...basically whatever they perceive as the easiest ideas to monetize.
All the burbling about #innovation and #building and all the rest of the optimistic noise is mostly noise. It's not clear the degree to which any of the people crowing about "acceleration" really have anything noble in mind, however abstract and tenuous.
(cont'd)