Christie Koehler

It’s so depressing how quickly as a society we crossed the Rubicon from “plagiarism is bad” to “mass everyday use of the plagiarism machine is good and inevitable and if you don’t get with the program you’re worthless.”

It’s so hard to be a person attempting to live with integrity in this world at this time. The grind is just constant.

Mar 4 at 7:56pmWeb
Show threadweird hermMar 4
@christi3k your last couple sentences express things so perfectly.
Show threadJan Lehnardt Mar 4
@christi3k you’re not alone <3
Show threadkolyaMar 4
@christi3k no no, plagiarism is still bad, if you do it.
Show threadAki the Conqueror 🦓Mar 4
@christi3k while i enthusiastically agree with your entire point, the comment about living with integrity has been on my mind about so very much of life for the past few years
Show threadJayMar 5
@christi3k
I have largely stopped fighting it.
It would mean losing my job for a start.
Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesMar 5

@christi3k

Not so long ago #hackers and #progressives
battle cry was "Information wants to be free!"

Pirating movies and books and filling their hard-drives with #Napster and #p2p tools with #mp3

#Kevin_Mitnick, one of the protohackers got years of jailtime for "PIRATING MANUALS OFF THE SYSTEM HE HACKED!!!"

Its only when the #oligarchs joined the fun and started ingesting their furry yiffing star-trek fanfiction blogs when they became champions of #copyright protection 😑

If you live long enough, you see your heroes become villains and vice versa.

Show threadBatsifyMar 5
@christi3k This is what happens when a society rewards success, which is necessarily synonymous with personal wealth, at the expense of the interests of society as a whole - which is no longer a value.
Show threadTheriacMar 5
@christi3k

The roots for where we are were set by court cases against OneClick collecting and collating user data in the late 90s early 2000s.
Show threadmillennial fulcrumMar 6

@christi3k what's hard about integrity?

it is not as though using the plagiarism ecological destruction scam tool could ever help me with my work.