On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 01:51:48PM -0700, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 7:25 PM Tomasz Rola via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > Well, if you are into this kind of stuff (I am)... Stross is an s-f > > author, formerly a programmer (ages ago but I think it still shows - > > perhaps he secretly writes his own tools in Perl) and he has a > > blog. This time, he explores the idea that internet "bub" delivered on > > its promises, rather than sucking investors up. [...] > I stopped reading when I got to this part: "...and it's clearly being > pumped up by fascist-adjacent straight white males with an unadmitted > political agenda, namely to shore up the structures of privilege and > entitlement that keep them wealthy." > > Seems like a hormonal problem.
Oh? Maybe. The thing is, I may read Stross (and other people) to feed my own opinion making machine but I do not necessarily endorse all of theirs. In a "good old bad times" I was growing up with agitprop coming at me in full spectrum - from things which were obvious manipulation to subtle, gentle pulling of strings with one or two words. I guess my brain learned to notice what was transparent enough to be noticed, mark it with red circle and move on - thus I noticed the words you mentioned and moved on to his remarks about OS/2, Linux and Newton (because my brain found those to be more interesting). As of his mentioning of fas*-leaning groups who want to use AI (and other modern tech) in order to propel themselves, I am not sure if you agree that such groups exist or not. Myself, I am willing to believe that yes, humans have wast potential to misuse any good invention... and while some humans may think it is good to screw some "others", I believe it all comes back to them, only later and no matter if they want it or allow it, they still receive it. Probably. I do not mean some higher being and legendary Judgement, I only mean laws of physics, psychology and other such things (kind of, if one shits too much into a river, because it all flows down to other guy, one may finally notice that rain became somewhat smelly - as it becomes obvious when watching the news nowadays). Looking back, what seemed great around 1995, like certain Manifestos from that time, nowadays seem to me as very naive, now that I grew older and learned a bit about ways of the world (i.e. ways of the people). -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **
