@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
@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.
@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
@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
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
@atax1a@infosec.exchange damn right we do
@atax1a@infosec.exchange wait, sorry, we're attempting to de-Christianize our language
fuck yeah we do
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
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
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
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