NireBryce

reality is the battlefield

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🐥 I am not embroiled in any legal battle
🐦 other than battles that are legal 🎮

I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.

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I live on the northeast coast of the US.

'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

conceptual midwife.

https://cohost.org/NireBryce/post/4929459-here-s-my-five-minut

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it's pithy, it gets the point across succinctly, and in my opinion, it lets people then move on, because the system is meant to do that.

instead of realizing most of these systems are not meant to do that, and specific, conscious choices from a handful of people made it that way, a minority of a minority of the organizations building them.

and there's your problem, along with an intentionally undereducated populace that's kept in fear of saying no to the boss because you can't afford to find another job


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in reply to @NireBryce's post:

Like a lot of concise ways of trying to sum up a concept it cuts both ways, right? Like the intention of POSIWID is trying to get across the idea that it's not just a case of a mistake or twiddling a few knobs, these systems were built this way to do the things they do, but people will use it the way you're describing. It's like "No ethical consumption under capitalism" which is intended to convey that survival under capitalism always requires tradeoffs and there's no way to avoid that without ripping capitalism out by the roots, but is often twisted to mean "I can do whatever I want with no moral or ethical valence". It's hard to create concise statements like that that aren't amenable to being twisted one way or another.

I dunno, every time I deploy this one it’s followed up with “for example, homelessness is an integral part of capitalism, not an unfortunate side effect”.

Sure, specific people can be blamed. But: if you took those people out and selected someone else that the system would let you install there… you’d probably get the same outcomes. It points to how incrementalism is unlikely to make substantial change and that the system must be dragged, kicking and screaming, in the one direction it doesn’t want to go.