I don't miss Clippy, per se, but I miss the era when helpful little things had faces. Alexa is a faceless void, like a Shit Janet that spies on you. "Hey, Google" is like being in the future without the dignity of saying, "Computer: Tea, Earl Grey, hot." Where's the soul of any of these things? Where's the joy?

Not only is a robot vacuum helpful in keeping my living space clean, he's also a dumb robot I can personify and his fuck ups are very low stakes.

Behold my son Sevenger Jr getting stuck in the cat food tray again!

I am now obligated to share First Mate Gusty, my air purifier

This guy just fuckin came with the house. His name is House.

"The act of epistemicide is part of genocide: it includes not only the destruction of existing knowledge as part of an “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part,” but the ability of a population to produce new knowledge. Thus, South Africa’s petition against Israel in the International Court of Justice alleged not just that “Israel has left Gaza City’s main public library in ruins,” had “damaged or destroyed countless bookshops, publishing houses and libraries and hundreds of educational facilities” and bombed “every one of Gaza’s four universities.” It also noted how “Israel has killed leading Palestinian academics” and that “Palestinian journalists are being killed at a rate significantly higher than has occurred in any conflict in the past 100 years.”

Palestinians are being deprived of not just what journalists immediately share with them, but of the possibility of building new knowledge and political realities which might flow from journalism. It may be happening through different and far less lethal means in the United States, but the closure of our libraries and the demise of alt-weekly newspapers and indie publications are also foreclosing the ability for many Americans to produce new knowledge and political realities in the metropole."

~As Journalists Are Murdered in Gaza Their Counterparts Lose Jobs in America by Steven W. Thrasher

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