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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/jplebreton/statuses/113933097982015092">JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 20:47:40 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton" title="jplebreton@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/34233-48-20240312212956.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="JP" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">JP</a></section><article><p>final para of that Defector piece goes especially hard<br><a href="https://defector.com/the-future-is-too-easy" rel="nofollow">https://defector.com/the-future-is-too-easy</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4494419#notice-8799748">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-02-02T20:47:40+09:00" title="Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 20:47:40 JST">about 20 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/113933097982015092" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/113933097982015092">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4067073">There is another way to read this, though, which is as a tapped-out super-class attempting to rush its preferred future into existence in the absence of any broader justification or appetite for any of it. It is rich cynics trying to make something lifeless grow in the way that living things do, and lock the dying present they rule in for the foreseeable future by effectively removing everyone from it but them. They are impatient not just because they are high-handed and avaricious, but because they know that the only future they can rule in the way they want is one that is passive, stupid, small and shrinking. There is in this morbid turning inward a latent and terribly sad admission of defeat—it is a future you'd accept only if you had given up on every other richer and more human and more generous one. The only people who've actually chosen it, so far, are the ones insisting that there's no other future to choose.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/933/095/956/996/129/original/54dd39964d6e4332.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/933/095/956/996/129/original/54dd39964d6e4332.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: lede-admin.defector.com</div><h5><a href="https://defector.com/the-future-is-too-easy">The Future Is Too Easy | Defector</a></h5><div></div></header><div>LAS VEGAS — There is something unstable at the most basic level about any space with too much capitalism happening in it. The air is all wrong, there’s simultaneously too much in it and not enough of it. Everyone I spoke to about the Consumer Electronics Show before I went to it earlier this month […]</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 20:47:40 JST JP
final para of that Defector piece goes especially hard
https://defector.com/the-future-is-too-easy
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1. There is another way to read this, though, which is as a tapped-out super-class attempting to rush its preferred future into existence in the absence of any broader justification or appetite for any of it. It is rich cynics trying to make something lifeless grow in the way that living things do, and lock the dying present they rule in for the foreseeable future by effectively removing everyone from it but them. They are impatient not just because they are high-handed and avaricious, but because they know that the only future they can rule in the way they want is one that is passive, stupid, small and shrinking. There is in this morbid turning inward a latent and terribly sad admission of defeat—it is a future you'd accept only if you had given up on every other richer and more human and more generous one. The only people who've actually chosen it, so far, are the ones insisting that there's no other future to choose.
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  LAS VEGAS — There is something unstable at the most basic level about any space with too much capitalism happening in it. The air is all wrong, there’s simultaneously too much in it and not enough of it. Everyone I spoke to about the Consumer Electronics Show before I went to it earlier this month […]

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