Post #1893842
2023-11-05 19:22 UTC
Replies (12)
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@gilmae@aus.social 2023-11-05 21:32
@chrisisgr8 it’d help if so many tech people’s goals weren’t secretly to join the coked up fascists. I wish more people wanted to become thousandaires instead.
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@canteen@cijber.social 2023-11-05 21:34
@chrisisgr8 I think the central allure of "look you could be lesser nobility if we, the actual nobility, think you have something we want" is quite strong for most people. It's basically what everyone calls the american dream, which is extra ironic because a lot of folks in the US hate nobility (even though their entire upper class *is* nobility in all but name) Edit: You are absolutely right. Should have led with that
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@Matt5sean3@rva.party 2023-11-05 21:53
@chrisisgr8 There was that time the government just gave money to scientists and engineers hand over fist at NASA which gave us people on the moon, space blankets, the microwave, better computers, and a lot of other things. And then we stopped giving them so much money for ... reasons?
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@Ghostpaw@meow.social 2023-11-05 22:19
@chrisisgr8 This would be so much easier if anyone but the coked up fascists had any money
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@jeremy_list@hachyderm.io 2023-11-05 22:40
@chrisisgr8 I am already working on cool shit but the problem is only one person gives me money because of it and he's broke too.
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@arcade@commune.anarchist.gay 2023-11-05 23:37
@chrisisgr8 i wish more tech people got funding from arts departments
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@crzwdjk@mastodon.social 2023-11-06 00:12
@chrisisgr8 you could also just... make stuff. Retvrn to the days of making stuff in your garage, the tools are more accessible than ever.
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@faoluin@chitter.xyz 2023-11-06 21:33
@chrisisgr8 I read a thing somewhere once about how our greatest minds are just working on how to get people to click ads. That really put things in perspective.
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@afhill@mstdn.ca 2023-11-07 02:18
@chrisisgr8 was at a session at a conference with @pahlkadot today where she mentioned shes not too concerned about govt not being able to attract digital talent. There is so much important, impactful work to be done in the public sector.
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@EveOfTheFuture@lgbt.io 2023-11-07 12:07
@chrisisgr8 HCombinator (we pull heists and funnel the money into mutual aid and tech development to meet people's needs)
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@kim@social.gfsc.studio 2023-11-07 15:25
@chrisisgr8 this is litearlly my life and it burns how hard it is to get people to realise (a) most people spend almost all day on the computer (b) the charity/community sector spends almost no money or energy working on how to make this somewhat better, its so grim
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@hoco@tribe.net 2023-11-28 02:12
@chrisisgr8 Most of the good apps have already been written. They aren't looking for apps to help people, they're looking for large demographics to disrupt and take the money that's there. It's a morality-free act of domestic imperialism that makes the railroad land barons seem merely opportunistic.