Post #1237498
2026-03-12 14:15 UTC
@shibacomputer @Mer__edith 1/
I lived this.
I would not call it angry, sibling... I call it defiance.
I participated at the wsis twice trying to influence policy in a forum the tech leaders avoided.
I helped build what would have been twitter before twitter, a full year earlier, focused on emergency communication. The Alert Retrieval Cache. I halted work because of the 'trusted sources' problem.
Silicon Valley did not care about trusted sources.
And it accelerated.
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@knowprose@mastodon.social 2026-03-12 14:19
@shibacomputer @Mer__edith 2/ Most days I feel that defiance lurking, entire generations having been raised with this normalized stew, never having heard of Barlow. His name once shouted is barely whispered now. Here we are, decades later. My defiance remains. Thank you for reflecting the same defiance. Memory is written by the survivors. History too. This defiance must survive. To be human. ////