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Most of them treat interaction design and software architecture as advice, and their programmers and engineers always have the last word. None of those companies' CEOs has any clue as to what is really going on in the engineers' cubicles, so they squeeze the schedule without reason.
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Alan Cooper
Capital is posited as the future through the coercive presence of the future in the present, which demands it be realised through the activity of living beings. Whether those beings are furnished by the trappings of a strong welfare state, or any other such variation, before being marched into its jaws is ephemeral to the cult, for it is capital that grants it its purpose for existing; and it is this purpose which austerity and privatization,which converts public institutions into sites of capital extraction, can execute by consigning them to destruction.
Simulation of the Antichrist
splintermag.com
Facebook is one of the companies that degraded the internet so that it consists of “five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four.”
“Metaverse” Means “Pivot to Video”
Cory Doctorow
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