(1/6) Absolutely love how nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqhykucplphuhelaxutcw4jw3vuu7gcg42czhqmk7jhchs8vdga4fschugpy (nprofile…ugpy) finds time for a huge lesson in a celebratory anniversary post (congrats, btw).
We make tech good by "liberating [it] from its monstrous forebears."
This evokes the spirit of Karl Polanyi's double movement. When I started my own blog a year ago, one of the questions that drove me was: How do externalities happen, and how can we prevent them? And I kept coming back to this idea.
https://misaligned.markets/glossary/#double-movement
quotingThat's how we make good tech: not by insisting all its inputs be free from sin, but by purging that wickedness by *liberating* the technology from its monstrous forebears and making free and open versions of it:
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https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/contesting-popularity/#everybody-samba
Purity culture is such an obvious trap, an artifact of the neoliberal ideology that insists that the solution to all our problems is to shop very carefully, thus reducing all politics to personal consumption choices:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems
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