Scott Francis
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Scott Francis's Bio
Thinking about what’s next (emerging tech @ Accenture), opinions: mine • Internet ops and security since the 20th century • eternally curious • loved beyond comprehension; learning to relax • be kind • celebrate beauty • fear not • SoCal 🌊
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In response to this post@ai6yr that would have been way too close to me
Mentions: @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
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@ai6yr still on up in Moorpark, but my friends over in Simi have been down for like 6+ hours already
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In response to this post@spiegelmama there's one in Pasadena (family out there got evac’d), the Palisades Fire, and I just heard one in Porter Ranch (??). I need to check Watch Duty again.
@darkuncle I'm glad your family got out, and I hope their home is OK.
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@gsuberland you may also be interested in the great @clipart bot
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@gsuberland so many floppies
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@gsuberland Turtle Beach audio drivers along with my Voodoo 2 card
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@ai6yr we're gonna have a bad time
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In response to this post“Why wouldn’t people feel insane? Why wouldn’t the internet, where we’re mostly forced to live, drive most people crazy? How are we not discussing the fact that so much of the internet is riddled with poison? How are we not treating the current state of the tech industry like an industrial chemical accident? Is it because there are too many people at fault? Is it because fixing it would require us to truly interrogate the fabric of a capitalist death cult?”
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In response to this post“In plain terms, everybody is being fucked with constantly in tiny little ways by most apps and services, and I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences that we’re not meaningfully discussing.”
(and to @fere's point, a 42-minute read isn't *exactly* a summary, but it's shorter than Cory's book on Enshittification. :))
“Why wouldn’t people feel insane? Why wouldn’t the internet, where we’re mostly forced to live, drive most people crazy? How are we not discussing the fact that so much of the internet is riddled with poison? How are we not treating the current state of the tech industry like an industrial chemical accident? Is it because there are too many people at fault? Is it because fixing it would require us to truly interrogate the fabric of a capitalist death cult?”
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In response to this postIf somehow you haven't read this yet, you really really should. Ed does a better job than anybody else I've ever read at distilling exactly what it is about using modern Internet technology that's so obnoxious, and why that is. (Cory Doctorow goes into more detail, but Ed's blog post is the best summary ever.)
“In plain terms, everybody is being fucked with constantly in tiny little ways by most apps and services, and I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences that we’re not meaningfully discussing.”
(and to @fere's point, a 42-minute read isn't *exactly* a summary, but it's shorter than Cory's book on Enshittification. :))
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I feel like what Ed's put his finger on here is probably an inevitable consequence of runaway capitalism:
"Things are being made linearly worse in the pursuit of growth in every aspect of our digital lives, and it’s because everything must grow, at all costs, at all times, unrelentingly, even if it makes the technology we use every day consistently harmful.”
https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
If somehow you haven't read this yet, you really really should. Ed does a better job than anybody else I've ever read at distilling exactly what it is about using modern Internet technology that's so obnoxious, and why that is. (Cory Doctorow goes into more detail, but Ed's blog post is the best summary ever.)
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