Fantasy-themed silver and helenite jewelry from the 1980s by Monica Roi Saxon / MRS Sunshine Enterprises Inc (ad in Dragon magazine #62, June 1982). Helenite is an artificial glass made by fusing ash from the 1980 Mount St Helens eruption. oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/702386345…
Viet Cong Repression and Its Implications for the Future (1970)
This is a RAND Corporation report and “Viet Cong repression” means acts committed by the Viet Cong (like “repressing a collaborator who spots for USAF forward air controllers” boohoo) jellobiafrasays.tumblr.com/post/702365427…
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The original sin of tech boosters and critics is an undue focus on what a technology *does*, rather than who it does it *to* and who it does it *for*. When it comes to technology's effect on our daily lives, the social arrangements matter much more than the feature-sets. 1/
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This is the premise behind my idea of the #ShittyTechnologyAdoptionCurve: if you want to do something horrible to people with technology, you must first inflict it on people without social power. 3/