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Anil Dash
@anildash.com

This is true, but the larger scam pattern (web3/metaverse/crypto/etc) is what many of us are trying to give voice to — folks have to recognize that letting those bad actors define "tech" is just like media letting bad actors frame every other "debate". It's losing before we even start.

Tom Scocca@tomscocca.bsky.social

Trying to think of any previous technology that needed this many people out there telling everyone that they're wrong about how it stinks and it is very good and helpfully actually

Matt Britt
@knows.cloud

It’s actually not very true. If you take the position on the right, they’ve been dismissing solar saying it’s not reliable, doesn’t carry „base load“ etc while the other side has had to advertise for it all the time yet we know now it’s amazing technology.

Matt Britt
@knows.cloud

The base argument is actually very silly, claiming if something was objectively good you wouldn’t have to advertise it. Just look at how people had to fight for women suffrage or to end apartheid.

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Matt Britt
@knows.cloud

That’s true but doesn’t make it a better argument. I think it is a good argument to say they have to push the technology bc they’re so deeply invested in this tech bro fever dream that there’s no turning back for them. Heck, some of them went as far as aiding a hostile takeover of the government…