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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic/statuses/113613845454065370">Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 07:15:05 JST</a><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" title="pluralistic@mamot.fr"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/1478-48-20250910232529.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Cory Doctorow" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Cory Doctorow</a><div><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113613843130509458" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>No, "convenience" isn't the problem</p><p>It's stupidly, unnecessarily hard to find hi-rez scans of Rube Goldberg cartoons online, but this one is perfect and it was a delight to lovingly crop out all its little details. Throw in Cryteria's HAL 9000 and a Matrix code waterfall and you've got a perfect image of the complex, hostile traps of digital systems.</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/12/give-me-convenience/#or-give-me-death" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/12/give-me-convenience/#or-give-me-death</a></p><p>40/</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4143449#notice-8098000">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-12-08T07:15:05+09:00" title="Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 07:15:05 JST">Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 07:15:05 JST</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113613845454065370" rel="external" title="Sent from mamot.fr via ActivityPub">mamot.fr</a></span></span><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113613845454065370">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3652514">
A Rube Goldberg drawing of a man using an elaborate automatic napkin, a contraption that integrates a wall-clock, a parrot, a pop-up toaster and other contrivances. The background has been replaced with the 'code waterfall' effect seen in the credits of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movie. The fact of the wall-clock has been replaced with the staring eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.'Image:
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Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 07:15:05 JST Cory Doctorow
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No, "convenience" isn't the problem
It's stupidly, unnecessarily hard to find hi-rez scans of Rube Goldberg cartoons online, but this one is perfect and it was a delight to lovingly crop out all its little details. Throw in Cryteria's HAL 9000 and a Matrix code waterfall and you've got a perfect image of the complex, hostile traps of digital systems.
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