👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt

keeping around useless jobs just for the sake of "full employment" is how one kills an economy, slowly but surely strangles the capability for innovation out of it

we make better tools to multiply our reach, to do more with less, to climb up the ladder of technological progress

yeah yeah I get that y'all scared of the future and insecure about your ability to provide value to an organization but if this lil software tool can entirely replace you... mb your position didn't need to exist in the first place

gotta say it's highkey disappointing seeing purportedly smart people advocating against technological advancement on the grounds of job security

bruh if your job can be automated away why tf you gun force people to pay you? how bout you git gud instead huh?

who called it a polycule instead of a cluster bomb
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RT @PstafarianPrice
Who called it a "dangerous fringe sex cult with a stockpile of weapons" when they could have called it "polyarmory"?
https://twitter.com/PstafarianPrice/status/1409900823300120584

now take it a step further and realize that this is exactly the purpose (typically subconscious)
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RT @webdevMason
"Queer culture" has allowed a lot of otherwise racially and sexually uninteresting white dudes to get away with crying uncle and getting everyone else to suddenly care about them at peak weakness, and I honestly can't help but be interested in where this goes
https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1409758538029670400

pee zombie dating, 2021, colorized
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RT @weebertarian
@pee_zombie
https://twitter.com/weebertarian/status/1409897596097687554

"what's in your pants" triplestore backlinks
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RT @visakanv
“are you a man or a woman” I am a hypertext library
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1396432330781184001

posts to a niche facebook group to the effect of "how do we feel about this, ingroup?" drive me up the fuckin wall
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RT @finnitejest
Guy who doesn’t know how he feels about an issue and waits until people indicate it’s perceived as left wing or right wing but then immediately forms an unshakeable conviction on the subject and he can’t believe you’d disagree with him, you heartless monster
https://twitter.com/finnitejest/status/1409797685536722946

one who is led by their curiosity is capable of achieving anything, and it's the job of parents, and later teachers, to show kids how to connect with their drive to understand, to know the world. I hope to help build a society in which this is the norm, rather than the exception

it's a tragedy, imo, that not everyone grows up in an environment which fosters their curiosity and encourages them to question the world, and themselves; curiosity is a gift to a growing mind, a torch in the darkness. and yet, many seek to snuff that torch out, to control it

I would love to live in a world where it was considered perfectly acceptable to question everything, and conversely, to either have answers for why you do anything you do, or to straight up just say "I don't know", which is fine! but many seem utterly terrified of admitting this

I do sometimes find it hard to distinguish whether someone's being avoidant bc they don't trust my intentions, or bc they don't know the answer and are trying to hide behind the norms; this is important, bc the latter is not acceptable imo, especially at work. know thyself!

it's the same thing at work, altho this is somewhat complicated by professional norms and work culture. i strive to encourage my teammates to always be willing to question anything & to explain themselves without being defensive, but many are unwilling to "expose" themselves thus

when I see my roommate do a household task in a way which makes no sense to me, my automatic reaction is to ask why; I'm not necessarily implying it's wrong! it's entirely possible for it to be somehow better than my way, which is why I want to know! but I'm seldom believed

it took me a long time to understand how someone could think this; isn't curiosity universal? doesn't everyone want to UNDERSTAND? eventually I realized that, no, not really; most are content with not understanding many things, and hence don't trust those that aren't. it's tough

I run into this headfirst constantly; being a voraciously curious person, seeing something I don't understand, including human behavior, makes me want to dig into it until I do. some people don't believe my stated intentions, however, assuming I'm gearing up to harm them somehow

people really do be out here treating questions as attacks due to a cached trauma reaction to growing up embedded in an adversarial culture in which questioning was typically a prelude to a boundary violation

perhaps we should be a bit easier on those who find themselves deeply disoriented in the digital realm, feeling lost, confused, unable to find their bearings; all of their being was optimized for a lower dimensionality

minds suited for digital space are, in many ways, transhuman

scifi stories often ask us to imagine the protagonists suddenly thrust into 4D space, employing all sorts of linguistic contortions to convey the fundamental weirdness thereof

but we're already familiar with a higher dimensional space much closer to home, one we inhabit daily

in a wide open field, you have a few well-defined headings to monitor for threats; we instinctively know how to orient ourselves, subconsciously monitor our surroundings continuously

digital space breaks these assumptions; we need to learn how to orient & observe all over again