Irenes (many)You are all dreams and we are happy to know you, as you are nice dreams. We are an asexual autistic trans-feminine plural system with a label collection.
We compromise with legibility only so far as to say the following: Technology Director at Internet Safety Labs; ex-Google information privacy expert. 🏳️⚧️
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Irenes (many)it's been a while since we've said this and we suspect it has not yet reached everyone it needs to, so we'll say it again just on general principles
activists should study how movements fail, for the same reason that architects study how buildings fall down
Irenes (many)if your reason for trying to imagine the future is, at least in part, to invent it
then you cannot afford to imagine a future that simply ignores bad things in the present
because these problems require actual solutions, and naive approaches are likely to make them worse
myrmepropagandistCats keep trying to start a union— but it’s too easy to attract scabs with offers of scritches and greenies. And every single cat thinks they are “union leadership” — add to that their intractable negotiation skills and the problems are obvious.
Irenes (many)@futurebird@sauropods.win they say that managing programmers is like herding cats
unionizing programmers is like, well, convincing cats they should be working together. we continue to believe that it is possible and necessary, it's just important to understand the nature of the problem.
Irenes (many)just pre-registering our intent here
if you ever see our account be, like, entirely memes and reshares and no conversation or substance of our own
that's not us, and we want you to question us on it
Irenes (many)@cstross@wandering.shop yeah. somebody in corporate PR seems to have noticed that the public is finally starting to notice resource usage by data centers, and gone out of their way to invent an individualist non-solution
Irenes (many)@cstross@wandering.shop like... it's bullshit, but don't make the mistake of thinking it's accidental bullshit. it inverts responsibility too directly for that, and it falls into that sweet spot where even attempting to rebut it seems to legitimize it. accidental bullshit would be less well-crafted.
we've personally met the people who come up with this kind of thing, and we can attest that yes, companies do this stuff deliberately.
Irenes (many)@skyfaller@jawns.club @atax1a@infosec.exchange since we weren't raised in it, curses are most of it, but we also try to notice when we're using heaven or hell in our metaphors and do, uh, anything else
Irenes (many)@skyfaller@jawns.club @atax1a@infosec.exchange and original sin is a really big one that comes up in a lot of contexts and has profoundly awful social effects when taken seriously. a lot of common metaphors are drawing on that and we have been working on avoiding that, as well
Irenes (many)something just clicked for us
when someone we don't know says "how are you doing?" as a greeting
they are asking us to lie
Irenes (many)@atax1a@infosec.exchange damn right we do
Irenes (many)@atax1a@infosec.exchange wait, sorry, we're attempting to de-Christianize our language
fuck yeah we do
Irenes (many)just pre-registering our intent here
if you ever see our account be, like, entirely memes and reshares and no conversation or substance of our own
that's not us, and we want you to question us on it
Irenes (many)if your reason for trying to imagine the future is, at least in part, to invent it
then you cannot afford to imagine a future that simply ignores bad things in the present
because these problems require actual solutions, and naive approaches are likely to make them worse
Irenes (many)it's been a while since we've said this and we suspect it has not yet reached everyone it needs to, so we'll say it again just on general principles
activists should study how movements fail, for the same reason that architects study how buildings fall down