if a project is small - has a small codebase, or a small userbase, whatever - that doesn't mean it is somehow incomplete or unsuccessful because it hasn't gotten big.

kill the capitalist in your head.

endless growth is unsustainable.

we could, like, have offline computers sometimes. not only as a treat. as a regular way of doing things.

everything doesn't have to be connected to the internet all the time. for real. I've seen it with my own two eyes. it's pretty cool.

What unique problems exist for the ordinary people of your world? What extraordinary coping mechanisms do they feel are perfectly normal?

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Tim Berners-Lee on the Web: "The system is failing"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/15/tim-berners-lee-world-wide-web-net-neutrality?CMP=twt_a-technology_b-gdntech

<<“I’m still an optimist, but an optimist standing at the top of the hill with a nasty storm blowing in my face, hanging on to a fence,” said the British computer scientist.

“We have to grit our teeth and hang on to the fence and not take it for granted that the web will lead us to wonderful things,” he said.>>
<<“People are being distorted by very finely trained AIs that figure out how to distract them,”>>