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@turblescelbor.bsky.social

It's easy (for me especially) to look back at the late 2000s and early 2010s as a really amazing time, both in terms technology and politics. We had smartphones maturing but not yet stagnated and evil, Obama was president, the Maker movement was in full swing, gay rights had major wins.

29/9/25, 12:20 am0 reposts1 like

TurblesCelbor

The thing about this era, and for those who were paying attention, is it was clear things were not ok, particularly after 2010. When Snowden leaked all that nsa shit I realized that any code I couldn't audit was probably being used to spy on my device one way or another.

But I also wasn't really politically aware until 2014/2015, my family was not particularly political, nor were we effected by 2008, so it's easy for me to look back it through overly rose tinted glasses.

But the way that personal dignity and liberty was at least in the abstract valued, and the way we hoped the democratization of technology would help us reach a more global, more equitable, and more free society just feels so incredibly dated and naive as our tech billionaires get richer...