"I find the discussions about technical matters to be liberating and self-empowering, and I identify as “non-technical”. To be sincere, it was in the slow accumulation of technical knowledge and skills that I became excited about the future again. […] This feels antithetical to how people approach the internet today, but I don’t think that’s the case for the future."
https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/background().html
Damn, those parentheses really do throw off Mastodon. Let's try this: https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/background%28%29.html
"The present moment is one where companies are obscuring the depth of their technical processes to quietly profit off surveillance, oppression, and depression. The future is one where technology is reclaimed by everyone; it is open and welcoming and asking to be built by hand. I want us to grow towards that future with everything we share." https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/background%28%29.html
I'm liking this manifesto already.
https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/fighting-the-phantoms.html
> Your world is guided by an algorithmic tangle that you know is there, but you don't know what exactly it _is_.
or, IOW:
Trinity> [...] he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.
Neo> What is the Matrix?
Trinity>The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.
@Wolf480pl Noooooo not the Matrix please no!! 😂
@kensanata
why not?
IMO it's relevant.
@Wolf480pl I have always considered the dialogues in The Matrix to be beautiful Word Magic – words to confuse and delight but to be taken seriously. Are you proposing that I rewatch it?
@kensanata
>words to confuse and delight but to be taken seriously
do you mean "words to confuse and delight, but ones that should not be taken seriously", or without the "not"?
@Wolf480pl Yeah, my bad. I have always thought about the Matrix as not to be take seriously.
@kensanata
I think it is to be taken seriously.
IMO it's a deep metaphor, talking about important philosophical issues.
@kensanata anyway, you probably should.
The Matrix is a deep methaphor that I keep rediscovering, as it applies to more and more situations.