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   Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Sep-2026 01:11:14 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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   • Theodora Ward

   @theodoraward did you put the nail in the wall if you used a nail gun? Did you write the thing on paper if you used a typewriter? Auto-complete?

   Technology is shit that allows people to do shit quicker. Irrelevant if it is good or bad. Technology has no morals or ethics.

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     Theodora Ward (theodoraward@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Sep-2026 01:11:18 JST Theodora Ward

     https://www.theverge.com/podcast/986661/ny-gov-kathy-hochul-ai-data-centers-ban-3d-printed-guns-flock-cameras

     if technology is something which expands one's agency -- which allows you to say, meaningfully, that "I" put that nail in the wall (with a hammer), "I" wrote that letter (with pen and paper), "I" engineered a piece of software (with a computer) -- hochul's casual manager-politician substitution of "I" for "we" reveals something we've known since before AI, but which AI has laid bare: to the technocrats and capitalists, workers are *literally* technical apparatuses