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People are endlessly surprised when ideology prevents folks from "getting" the obvious point of a work of art because we've been taught that art exists in a separate world and has magical powers that beam the "message" into people's brains. But just as ideology conditions your interpretation of political events, it conditions your interpretation of everything else. If you already think real rich people aren't parasites, you're not gonna think the rich people in movies are either.
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Let's talk about user interface design. This is my parents' microwave. The task is to warn up food. How?
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Yep, best of both worlds
word processors are useless 🤷
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Another reason to love the Dutch: they call café au lait (coffee with milk) "koffie verkeerd" which literally means "incorrect coffee".
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a note I wrote down at the Telekommunist workshop at #transmediale
@thenewoil but yeah, showing a flow chart at the end of the guide that leads nowhere sounds like the best plot twist to a tutorial ever!
@thenewoil maybe it can be written in dialectic, IDK Oliver Thorn's latest video on data and privacy seems to be super fixated on asking rather than doing.
I think he's right. In a way building fast leads to breaking things, aka facebook's motto. We probably need to build less and analyze more.
Its like silicon valley took Marx quote on philosophy vs action too seriously. We would probably benefit from non-answers.
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i watched My Neighbour Totoro. it was uwu.
@swirlz Woah, that's hot
@thenewoil I think the ideal guide should make you doubt the idea that binary ideas (totally private / totally survaled) and technological growth for the sake of it are viable to begin with.
Like an anti guide that only asks further questions and never answers firefox or brave.
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I dislike the TOR browser
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To not follow a guide 100% is not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of autonomy and freedom. We ought not to be ashamed of not living in the TOR network.
Privacy can mean different things to different people, a one size fits all guide is as totalizing as the social media algorithms privacy advocates claim to get away from.
/rant
@thenewoil I honesty think following guides for privacy is super strange.
To me privacy is something very personal, my desire to be private is not logical at all. I just *feel* weird being watched. To then have a 1 2 3 guide to solving ones personal privacy runs contrary (in my eyes) to the idea that privacy is subjective and not set in stone.
Like, maybe leaving facebook is good enough for you. That should not be something to be ashamed of...
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Your Phone is Not Your Friend — by The New Oil
https://write.as/thenewoil/your-phone-is-not-your-friend
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