
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
catandgirl@socel.net ("Cat and Girl") wrote:
The Reverse Orpheus.
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- THE REVERSE ORPHEUS / Girl: We're all moving backwards Cat: People like to move backwards! / Girl: Maybe backwards is the only path we can see Cat: I am DEFINITELY not going to bump into anything / Girl: because "progress" was claimed by the tech industry to mean advances in consumer widgets instead of social movements / Girl: and we can all see what the last twenty years of big tech progress have given us / Girl: Access to more and more things that are crummier and crummier - attempts at connection routed through for-profit platforms choked with misleading ads and malicious lies - passions reduced to content - bad jobs made worse / Girl: but time doesn't move backwards / / Girl: We're still moving forward - we're just not facing it Cat: This is forward to me now (remote)