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   Joan Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 14:58:35 JST Joan Westenberg

   1/10 Every tech visionary wants to be Galileo, you notice that? They want to be that lone genius standing up to the forces of ignorance, “questioning dogma” in the name of Science. 🧵

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     Joan Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 14:58:33 JST Joan Westenberg

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     8/10 They’re doing what Galileo actually did: they’re making everyone uncomfortable by suggesting, hey, maybe our understanding of reality isn’t complete yet, maybe there’s more to the universe than a rigid little belief system.

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     Joan Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 14:58:33 JST Joan Westenberg

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     9/10 Meanwhile, tech’s rationalist LARPers just keep clutching their pearls, citing “immutable truths” like they’re reading off a papal decree. They claim to be free thinkers, but they’re really just defending the same boring old hierarchy in slightly shinier packaging.

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 14:58:33 JST jwz

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     @Daojoan I read papal decree as PayPal decree and I'm not sure it changes the meaning.

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     Joan Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 14:58:34 JST Joan Westenberg

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     5/10 These are the people who wear “Question Everything” T-shirts but can’t fathom questioning their idea of gender because it’s “basic biology” or whatever flimsy excuse they found in a freshman textbook fifteen years ago.

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     Joan Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 14:58:34 JST Joan Westenberg

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     6/10 We’re in this bizarre situation where the people actually challenging norms—trans people, queer folks, anyone even slightly outside the “normal” box—are the ones facing down all the backlash.

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     Joan Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 14:58:34 JST Joan Westenberg

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     7/10 They’re the ones putting themselves on the line to expand how we see each other, pushing for a future that doesn’t have a place in the tech intellectuals’ flowcharts.

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     Joan Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 14:58:35 JST Joan Westenberg

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     2/10 They imagine themselves staring down the Catholic Church, the mob with their pitchforks, all because they’re too brave, too logical, too truthful for this world. They’re ready to risk it all just to tell you the sun doesn’t spin around the earth.

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     Joan Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 14:58:35 JST Joan Westenberg

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     3/10 But half of these Galileos turn into righteous inquisitors the second anyone brings up trans rights. Suddenly, their “bold science” becomes a couple of Biology 101 slogans stapled to a tired, thousand-year-old, deeply religious Catholic ideology.

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     Joan Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 14:58:35 JST Joan Westenberg

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     4/10 Their “critical thinking” snaps right into alignment with every crusty institution they swore they were too smart to follow.

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 15:01:31 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     @jwz @Daojoan A PayPal Bull(shit) - Whenever they change the terms of service and it's like 142 pages of legalese.

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 13:56:08 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     sex is hardware, gender is software. software is eating the world, and software must be free.
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