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It’s time for something new. So: what do you think I should do next? I want to be of service. https://anildash.com/2025/06/11/time-for-something-new/
@anildash Your head's in the right place, but if I were still in tech, my priority would be: how is my work harming the Facebook/Google hegemony specifically, and the surveillance-industrial complex generally?
Framing it reactively might not sit well, but we are in a war and we are losing. A positive spin like "building community" risks being a platitude like "don't be evil".
The priority for anyone with ethics in tech must be to destroy advertising, AI and crypto. All else is wainscoting.
@jwz I don’t disagree. I’m not averse to antagonistic framing, I’m just generally trying to think affirmatively about what I’m moving *toward* first. That might reveal what I have to destroy if there’s something in my way.
@anildash @jwz having a clear direction with a positive outcome in mind can go arm in arm with a negative one towards things hostile to wellbeing and safety.
I'm not even against the boilerplate ideas of advertising, AI, or crypto, but I'm vehemently against their currently unregulated, mendaciously applied opportunistic carnival barkery, and spitefully so. The LeCarre grade deceit that now permeates every nook of the industry is goddamn infuriating.
@anildash @jwz You are moving towards the general increase of the agency of those with the least. Your are destroying the power of those with the most power who do no otherwise increase the agency of those with the least.
I don't know exactly how to do this without increasing my own power but what I won't do myself is assume that I need more power to effect this.
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Just sent you an overview of our cooperative, Socialroots, in a dm (we’re in private beta) but pinging here because yes, the way we make and fund technology needs to change.