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This is terrible. This is nerds having a tantrum because they can’t just play with their tech toys without having to behave like adults. That ship has sailed. Y
by camillomiller 8mo ago
This is terrible.
This is nerds having a tantrum because they can’t just play with their tech toys without having to behave like adults.
That ship has sailed. Your nerdy toys are not just the pure intellectual pursuits, and puzzles, and enigmas devoid of effects on reality you would like them to be.
If you don’t recognize that your penchant for solving software and hardware problems is used by the owner class to promote concentration of wealth and gain power, then you will stay forever a useful
idiot to their cause.
Demanding that tech discussion should stay apolitical nowadays only serves the purpose of the powerful billionaires that control you.
- appreciatorBus 8mo ago[flagged]
- camillomiller 8mo agoCop out. Your contribution to big tech is not apolitical. Go be a monk if apolitical is what you want (and even then, that wouldn’t be fully apolitical). Men are political animals. If you say you want to be apolitical, you are already making a political choice, i.e. deferring your choices to established power. Doing the ostrich is a political choice.
- appreciatorBus 8mo ago[flagged]
- camillomiller 8mo ago[flagged]
- archagon 8mo agoA fool said a foolish thing! Gottem!
- xigoi 8mo agoI research numeration systems. How exactly is my research used to “promote concentration of wealth and gain power”?
- camillomiller 8mo agoDo you research that for any big tech company? Are the system you research key to some AI development by Anthropic, OpenAI or similar? Etc. Also you are more of a scientist in this case so that applies to an extent. What we’re talking about here is people that would just want to discuss blockchain and bitcoin and request that those should stay apolitical
- mrguyorama 8mo agoHow do you pay for your food and home?
- xigoi 8mo agoI’m still a student, so I’m partially supported by parents, but I get money for teaching.
- solid_fuel 8mo agoDidn’t the sugar industry spend decades funding research designed to push the blame for obesity onto fat and carbs instead of sugar? That is politics, and opposing it is ALSO politics. The sad truth is you don’t get to choose what will be considered political and what won’t. Trying to be distanced from politics instead of engaged and aware just makes it easier for bad actors to manipulate you.