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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 15-Aug-2025 07:37:27 JST Adrianna Tan

   "Specifically, let’s talk about the soul of tech. And yes, I know industries don’t have souls, but honestly, neither do people. What they do have—or lack—is an ethical core. A way they want to interact with the world and the people that they come in contact with. For example, not too long ago, tech was seen as an industry of progress and innovation. Tech was a sector that made us think of humankind moving forward, possibly into some happy Star Trek like future where no one needed money and pie magically appeared in your wall if you said “Magic wall, pie me!” One might argue that not too long ago the soul of tech bent towards the positive. And, yes, people in the global South building your iPhones and mining the rare earth elements necessary to make a bunch of your tech shit work might very well argue with that assessment. They’d be right to do so. But the vibe, at least once you put the blinders on, was a positive one."

   https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-not-build-the-torment-nexus/

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     Jeff Miller (orange hatband) (jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 15-Aug-2025 09:13:40 JST Jeff Miller (orange hatband)

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     @skinnylatte "This is all just a long-winded way of saying that while your current job, and healthcare, depends on building the Torment Nexus, your best bet might be to start thinking of fields that don’t require building the Torment Nexus to earn a living."

     unfortunately my other field was astronomy