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Users don’t experience systems as implementations. They experience them as continuity.

leaflet.pub: UI Is a Conservation Layer

I think we wrote a brilliant critique of ideology. We should have completely blown [techno-optimist capitalism] out the water, but it of course just carried on. … material reality is more important if it offers to triple your wages. Co-option is easy. … Critique is important. I’m not dissing it. We should do it. But we shouldn’t have any illusions that it will make any diffe...

As much as I fear the fallout of this technology, I fear the fallout of ideological purity even more. Time and again, people fall victim to the transformation of a stance on an issue into a holy cause, a flag to rally behind, a group from which to exclude The Other. Purity is a dangerous idea—historically, more dangerous than technology’s capacity to change labor.

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the markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

Gil Duran: Attack of the Trillionaire

The fifth obstacle is us. Our cynicism, our exhaustion, our tendency to scroll past the policy debate and doom-post about the inevitable robot apocalypse. Doomerism is a form of political paralysis. If you believe the future is already determined, you don’t organize, you don’t vote, you don’t fight. You wait for the catastrophe and feel validated when it arrives.

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