Thread by @JillianWeise

I'm doing something for my pleasure. But the computer is making it far more difficult than it should be?

"Computers force their will upon us." #Irigaray

Mostly I disagree with this. But a moment like now, which I will show you, makes me think: Truly, she's right.

@get_altText

And I already know somebody, probably Millennial (I'm Millennial) or Gen Z (adore you, Gen Z) is thinking:

You just need an app.

No. I do not want to download any apps in order to achieve what I wish to achieve. Apps ask way too much data of me. And I decline all that.

Now I am using an "app" insofar as this poem by Alyssa Moore is "the action of putting something into operation." This poem shows me how to do what I'm doing. This poem is a fkn revolution. And I mean that sincerely:

poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…

#WhatDoesYourPoetryDo #NotMuchHuh

Damn, my hashtags high rude today 😂

Ok but if my computer was a napkin. Let's just go with the thought experiment. If my computer was a napkin, I would just fold up the napkin and then cut along the folds. And then arrange the three squares as I want. And put them in the corner of my Tw (I view this on a laptop)

(I don't give Tw app permissions, and this explains why when E-Swan LeDusk bought Tw I did not really care bc I don't let Tw on my phone anyway. I don't let hardly any apps on my phone. My body is on my phone. Actual body. Cyborg. Leg. Etc)

So because "computers force their will upon us" (h/t Irigaray), I have had to move files and folders around. I did not want to. But I want the grid of the light on the ocean at this spot. I was there in 2018. And I want to be there in 2023. Five years have passed. But not really.

@get_altText

Ahhh, I'm thinking about how the computer just "force[d]" my attention to the panel of the screen where all the files and folders are. But what's happening over on the other side? Where none of the files and folders are?

@get_altText

Okay. Something is definitely shifting for me. It's like humor mixed with wonder mixed with : Wow. The tech really got us working for tech, such that we tweet things, and do not ever take photos of ourselves tweeting the things.

Why does tech prefer me to think about the thing I'm tweeting rather than the act of tweeting?

How does my inattention to this benefit tech?

What is tech doing to my brain when I am all-the-time not thinking of what I'm thinking as I am a tweeting-subject?

I have this impression that tech wants me to strive for "likes" and "follows." I have already fired that desire of techs for myself bc it is not my desire.

Now I'm with my desire. To get the pic in the three grids, as I want it, on Twitter, and to understand better tech's reach

None of this would be possible without my submissive who disdains tech entirely. Has no social media. My submissive is involved with my desire (stating the obvious) and my submissive is involved with social media by default of being anti-social.

You can't just say, "Oh I don't do social media," bc social media still does you. Social media "does" you by your not-doing-of-it.

#Lacan #LacanianCyborg #SocialMedia