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   nota (nota@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 06:50:16 JST nota

   I boredly clicked a MKBHD video a while back where he unboxes a sealed original iphone. I keep thinking about it, because he talks up how it was "never gazed upon nor touched by human hands".

   What do you mean Marquess, "no human" 🧐

   Of course if he'd have thought about it for a second he'd have realized that it had been through dozens of hands and seen by hundreds of people. But he didn't, they just left it in. It's so mundane in it's detachment from reality and somehow that really tickles me.

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     nota (nota@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 06:50:49 JST nota

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     It just feels like the sort of contrived seeming line you'd make someone say in a novel after the chapter that details the oppression of the people making the widgets, in order to set up the class conflict the book centers around.

     And yeah, tech media at large does really just act like if these devices just appeared on shelves out of the æther and that explains a lot, I ever thought about that.

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