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Ethan Marcotte

if you haven’t read @kissane’s latest, this is an especially good time to do so wrecka.ge/bad-shape/

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Ethan Marcotte

“So sure: Protocols over platforms. Then we have to actually do the inelegant, un-heroic, expensive work of rebuilding the essential structures of human civilization on top of the protocols, because it turns out we just have the one world, online or off, no way out.” — @kissane, wrecka.ge/bad-shape/

Ethan Marcotte

ps. erin thank you for the incredible essay however i am very cross with you for making me read whatever the tap-dancing [redacted] this is eff.org/cyberspace-independenc

inquiline

@beep Lol! So many problems with that, but a gold mine for "lookit where all our problems come from"

Luis Villa

@beep Wait had you really never read it?

Jessamyn

@luis_in_brief @beep Jealous that you hadn't (had to) read it before now.

Ingrid Burrington

@beep I make my CS ethics students read it and it's so funny how mad they get about it

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