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   Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 04:20:41 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

   > Look, I'm no luddite…

   First of all, why do tech writers feel they need to be apologetic when criticizing bad technology decisions by Big Tech?

   I don't see similar hedging when the piece is about the tech underdogs – say, small FLOSS projects. Being a vicious critic is then somehow okay?

   Secondly, just embrace your inner Luddites. Luddites were not against all technology per se, they were against how technology was being used to abuse people:
   https://techwontsave.us/episode/187_the_real_history_of_the_luddites_w_brian_merchant

   Sounds damn valid to me!

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 04:20:40 JST iced depresso

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     @rysiek its some normie signalling thing. they're trying to lampshade the most obvious criticism someone is about to make in the hopes of.. disarming their opponent in some way, i guess.
     
     i don't get why they do it. people who smear with narratives just do it anyway, and people who fall for it don't watch the original material either.
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     Ryan Makes, Dreamscaper (ryancoordinator@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 04:40:54 JST Ryan Makes, Dreamscaper

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     @icedquinn @rysiek it's a direct response to the normalization of haters being taken seriously

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 04:40:54 JST iced depresso

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     @ryancoordinator @rysiek i saw it in scientists that were rejecting narratives. it was painful to hear them speak because every other word out of their mouths was how they weren't conspiracy theorists and they don't condone this or that and then proceed to show a statistical test that actually the cheese content of the moon is $value
     
     they get steamrolled by the narrative anyway so i don't know why they do it. i presume its a futile attempt at something.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 05:04:54 JST Sick Sun

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     @icedquinn @ryancoordinator @rysiek people do this when they're not arguing from the dominant position. people think tech = progress now
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 05:12:19 JST iced depresso

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     @sun @ryancoordinator @rysiek eh that could be true if they were still technologists but they aren't. these are just line go uppers anymore.