General Discussion

One confusing thing as I try to write up an important post in the activist HQ, is what I remember from a period of brushes with lousy tech.

One sign I have seen of honesty in people is unfortunately confusion in dealing with this emerging creepy digital environment mediated by all sorts of agents and bots, but which also is hard to address..

Early on and even now as I see this grow around me insufferably corrupting and contaminating everything else, any decent people with real products and services who exist in the world such as it is -not making it worse but as you say “doing no harm” or even improving it is, if they see an ott rant or hear a vague rumor, they could think it’s about them.

And people like that usually look confused and probably later angry or depressed or wary feeling attacked when it’s not about them at all.

It’s this tragicomic situation where you are ranting about people at the very top and random people get offended.
It is not possible to explain stuff in a never ending if else loop explaining every context and situation

A bot wouldn’t know how to explain something so all possible people who could see it don’t get confused and a human who tries sounds crazy. Because of the secrecy with which these lousy things are built it’s not even that easy to estimate the probability of this or that situation applying as easily as one could.

Ed Zitron rants about it. More people do by how.
It’s like this nuisance that sucks away time attention and energy.

And irl I outright avoid spaces and people like that. And you rarely meet people who are the worst kinds of architects of this shit reality.

Part of the secrecy with which so much “development” is done now is aimed at feeding the greediest and worst parts of the machine and its owners/creators users and their sycophants. Musk being a particularly noxious example along with those Jan 6 creeps.

Irl outside of hooligans or corrupt persons we rabble meet with a low to average probability, this doesn’t apply.

I have never personally met many of the people building the things I find so objectionable and I don’t want to be kicked out of every system because someone takes something I say personally.

My doctors or delivery men etc are always decent but I am in system where the logistics are handled by people I don’t know and whatever they are like at the lower levels, at the top these days it’s going to be guys who push it. That’s who gets ahead these days. Especially at the top.

My doctors here are generally nice and decent so I don’t worry about the situation Elaine dealt with in an episode of Seinfeld. I used to look at that episode and relate to it. Say what you will about Elaine, there is no submission there. I used to bitterly remember a time when I was a free woman when I used to watch the show over the years.

It’s hard to explain it so that any potential acceptable baby doesn’t go out with the bathwater. A Tower of Babel comes to mind. Except instead of language now you have to explain human existence as a whole to avoid causing nuisance rumors as you try to identify the things that would really piss you off

I am glad tech has gotten to a point where it’s pissing off enough people that I don’t just sound crazy to anyone who reads this stuff,,as I probably did a few years ago.

Marc Andreessen, Musk and their ilk are the worst offenders. But increasingly I do suspect it needs to be rebuilt from scratch in 7-8/10 and that’s a generous estimate with some stuff that has been pissing me off. It’s just myopic at this point to yet again peg things at something that is convenient to very few , lucrative to even fewer (and those the worst) at the cost of everything and everyone else.