Eugen Rochko
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog. Luddite.
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog. Luddite.
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#Mastodon (the band) - The Vanishing, from their new album that was released yesterday.
I hesitate to say this bluntly, because I know a whole lot of folks on here are actively involved in technical development of one sort or another, and derive both pleasure and a significant part of their identity from that fact. There’s something I think we all need to get clear on, though, and it’s something I myself had to learn the hard way: no tool will liberate us. The achievement of justice cannot be automated, or otherwise outsourced to a technical apparatus of any sort.
You work on tools because that’s what you’re good at, because that’s the way your brain works, because that’s what you enjoy or can get compensated for doing. That’s all as may be. But please, please do not make the mistake of thinking that the tool – any tool, of any sort whatever – will produce “progress.” There is and can be no technical fix for the social-psychological, existential or ontological predicaments that confront us. In the end there is only us, staring back at us from whatever mirror we’ve built.
New article: this time, we use Heidegger to explain why the "it's just a tool" line that often comes up in tech is so very silly:
https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such-thing-as-just-a-tool
A visiting friend once called me over, saying:
'Hester, I think your cat is broken!'
I sprinted to the kitchen, worried something was very, very wrong. When I came into the room, I started laughing and told my friend that Joris is just an idiot and doesn't know how to drink like a normal cat.
(I've tried different sized bowls, dishes, locations and heights. Sometimes he drinks 'normally', he just prefers to do it this way.)
My wife and I are both retired. To us, every day is #Caturday!
Mostly because of these goofballs.
hello! i'm vonnie, an #artist + #illustrator from the netherlands and this is my first post on mastodon art! 🌈 i love making art and illustrations! i also sell colourful prints, stationery, stickers and other fun things! #introduction #newhere
