Mallory's Musings & Mischief
It's important to have a good understanding of how technology works.
Not because getting a STEM job is valuable, or because technical knowledge is somehow more important than other types of knowledge.
It's because the powerful will use your ignorance of technology against you.
Systems are designed — out of necessity and intentionally — to constrain your choices. It's important to understand which constraints are technically necessary, and which are just there to exploit or control you.
Mallory's Musings & Mischief
The more you are ignorant of those design choices in a system, the easier it is for those in power to launder justifications for their actions with those systems.
Suddenly it's the system's "fault" for why something happened the way it did. You hear people say things like, "I'm sorry, the computer won't let me do that," as if what's possible is defined by the limitations of the system, not the choices of the designer(s).
A machine cannot be held accountable, only people.
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