"There is no innocent ground for the machine to stand on [...] A cleaner mine, an open licence, a machine built to last twenty years instead of two, all of it can be real and the thing is still not decolonial if the people whose land and water it runs on cannot make it stop."
What a beautiful, strong essay. How much (and what kind of) technology is compatible with egalitarian and post-capitalist societies? The question really is at the heart of all struggle for better (digital) futures.
Tara Tarakiyee@tarakiyee@mastodon.onlineNew on the blog. At Cables of Resistance, I ran a workshop asking if we can build hardware without capitalism. I was grieving what AI is doing to open source. Technologists need to see there's no innocent ground under the machine. It was always someone's land.