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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 05:20:49 JST Paul Cantrell

   • David Smith
   • 🔏 Matthias Wiesmann

   @jrose @Catfish_Man @thias @quephird
   Yes, exactly all this! This aspect of software is — full-throated, no irony — something that gives me deep optimism about the world. Our power structures may be broken, our systems may be broken…but yes, it really is possible for humans to build things together that are bigger than any one of us and that •work•.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 05:23:49 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • David Smith
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     • Deb Chachra

     @Catfish_Man @jrose @thias @quephird
     You probably already know of it, but just in case: this is very much what @debcha’s “How Infrastructure Works” is all about.

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     David Smith (catfish_man@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 05:23:50 JST David Smith

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     • 🔏 Matthias Wiesmann

     @inthehands @jrose @thias @quephird I have a similar thought exercise that I do when I'm feeling down, which is look at a city skyline at night, and then attempt to trace everything that had to happen to get all those little points of light there