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@nyx @lethargilistic you can very easily extend the idea of AI being stagnant and useless in its “proper” state to just about everything to do with computers that’s front-facing. i see a whole world of optimism and exploration from the 90s/early 2000s thats been completely smothered in order to bring computers “down to earth” so to speak, fragments of it only resurfacing as victims of the cultural-necromantic churn, if at all. you had your fun, now it’s time to come home; the neoliberal apparatus with all its discourse and slop and business “””intelligence””” is all there is and all there ever will be. it doesn’t seem like anyone building alternative infrastructure seems terribly interested in following any logic other than that which they claim to resist, either:

“Facebook can be repurposed to initiate an anti-Facebook movement, but by doing so, we still commit ourselves to the ontological and epistemological presuppositions of Facebook—for example, how it defines an individual and social relations. How else do we know what social relations are, or can be? Facebook is an application of internet technology, but Facebook is itself not technology per se, which consists of network protocols, programming languages, API libraries, etc. To reappropriate this would mean to create alternatives based on different ontologies and epistemologies, which is far beyond the scope of libertarian hackers.” (yuk hui, On Automation and Free Time)

also i am once again shilling HWBM