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”The distinction between programmer and user is reinforced and maintained by a tech industry that benefits from a population rendered computationally passive. If we accept and adopt the role of less agency, we then make it harder for ourselves to come into more agency.”

stealing the shit out of that (and acknowledging you in the acknowledgments section, i'm not an animal)

please acknowledge Melanie Hoff, I didn't write this!

Care to expand a bit? Are you explicitly defining software user agency? Or is this broader agency of the individual in general?

if there's a difference, i guess i was referring to software. was at the end of a long week of seeing handwavey liberatory language used to sell rent-seeking hostage-taking digital handcuffs.