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2026-05-29 02:32:37 UTC

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The quote is taken from the title of an essay, so that's not a great surprise it's the only text people repeat.
“Lorde’s message is clear: in order to create real change, we must reject the systems and structures that uphold power imbalances and instead create our own tools and methods for dismantling them. This requires a deep understanding of the ways in which power operates and a commitment to challenging and transforming it.”
https://literarysum.com/deconstructing-power-analyzing-audre-lordes-the-masters-tools-will-never-dismantle-the-masters-house/
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2026-05-29 02:31:09 UTC

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As so often, @npub1764…nuj0, this historical quote taken out of its historical context does not completely encapsulate the meaning.
A more complete quotation of Audre Lorde's words:
“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.”
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2025-05-22 02:05:22 UTC

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> Microsoft did something weird and now emails can give you a virus.
This whiplash struck me in the late 1990s, yeah. Had to revise the advice I was giving to loved ones.
What an obviously stupid decision by MS, surely everyone who says they want security will abandon this single program that makes them uniquely vulnerable, and use any of the others that don't have this flaw.
The growing horror as I observed exactly the opposite trend, has never left me.

2025-03-04 22:34:41 UTC

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It seems clear to me that the embarrassment lands squarely on the tech media, who should be far better at communicating "#OpenOffice is not what you're looking for, use #LibreOffice @npub1tgg…qwzh instead". That's firmly within the tech media's job.
The job of @npub1lpa…q3qx lies primarily in maintaining software. Let them maintain whatever software, for as long as people want it maintained.

2024-12-09 00:53:29 UTC

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The message was successful, then! That's exactly what the Zoom CEO says he wants to happen:
“All of us, we will have our own LLM. Essentially, that’s the foundation for the digital twin. Then I can count on my digital twin. Sometimes I want to join, so I join. If I do not want to join, I can send a digital twin to join. That’s the future.”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24168733/zoom-ceo-ai-clones-digital-twins-videoconferencing-decoder-interview
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#GenAI #LLM #TechBro #Dystopia #Delusion

2024-08-20 22:58:27 UTC

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The what?
@npub1764…nuj0 maybe edit the post, link to the logo so we can see it for the poll?

2024-08-07 01:13:58 UTC

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Provided we understand "human flourishing" as incompatible with "endless growth of the human species".
We live on a finite planet [0], and human flourishing *requires* that we live bounded within the finite capacities of our environment.
[0] And no, there is currently no workable prospect of interplanetary colonies. The technologies that would be required to make them habitable can be applied *here*, to help our *only living planet* avoid environmental catastrophe.