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   pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 04:27:24 JST pettter

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   • Librarianshipwreck
   • Emma Builds 🚀

   @emmah @librarianshipwreck “The computer has long been a solution looking for problems—the ultimate technological fix which insulates us from having to look at problems.” – Joseph Weizenbaum (1983)

   Wow, that's depressingly relevant still.

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     Emma Builds 🚀 (emmah@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 04:27:25 JST Emma Builds 🚀

     • Librarianshipwreck

     @librarianshipwreck bringing up how technologists tend to throw computers at systemic problems.

     I'm thinking about in the context of folks' continuing pursuit of search as a fix for discoverability in the Fediverse.

     https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2023/01/26/computers-enable-fantasies-on-the-continued-relevance-of-weizenbaums-warnings/