This is a huge •culture shift•, because it non-trivially coïncides with an astonishing level of video literacy.
Photography & filmmaking skill at a level that only a handful of professionals could do a generation ago is ordinary among teenagers today. I am illiterate.
Via @kevinriggle, who for good reasons sees this as a demonstration of anarchist principle … thought of course I see it as making a case for socialism with dignified universal basic income, and for geek pride
Observers outside the culture of “tech” development tend to read geeks as shortsighted about the impacts of what they make (which is largely true) and as agents of ruthless exploitive capitalism (which is more complicated)
Dec 7, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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We have three to six times the vehicular death rate of our European counterparts because we insist that the relationship between design and behavior flows in one direction and not the other
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A city without traffic signals is a city where most of us arrive at our destinations sooner and all of us travel safer.
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Once upon a time I had occasion to visit the main data center for a big bank.
I went on a long drive. An hour after I was clearly Outside The City, I left the interstate. Then off the four-lane blacktop for a two-lane road. Then literally off the map to a road with no sign.
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Sep 27, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In this world talented women and people of color have something to prove and mediocre white men have something to DISprove
"To call Epstein a grifter is to assume he circumvented some genuine meritocratic world order.
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The truth is that the elite world [has] hordes of loathsome, boring, untalented people.
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He earned it the same way they all did, which is to say precisely not at all."
If you are one of those people who says that fascism is not fascism until it arrives at authoritarian political repression through the prevention of free elections and terrorizing the citizenry with state agents and civilian brown shirts, HERE WE ARE
