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software is a mirror that reflects the times and the environment it was created in.
this is why much software created in the 1970s counterculture was joyful and humanistic, and why much software created in the 2020s capitalistic hellscape is soul-crushing malware (adware, spyware).
#retrocomputing can mean celebrating hardware limitations and creative coding, but it can also mean celebrating personal computing - computers that are tools for liberation - bicycles for the mind, not cattle trains to the slop farm.
"The US alone has already spent more money on this conflict in the last two and a half weeks than the $23bn (€19.9bn) I need to save 87 million lives this year," said Tom Fletcher, a senior official at the United Nations.
https://euobserver.com/207273/us-war-spending-in-iran-could-have-saved-87-million-lives-says-un/
Parliament must ban Canadian firms from doing business with ICE
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/parliament-must-ban-canadian-firms-from-doing-business-with-ice/
Morning File by @TimBousquet
A New Online Archive Lets You Read the Whole Earth Catalog and Other Whole Earth Publications, Taking You from 1970 to 2002

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