Not Much of Consequence

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

This is the jumping spider Neobrettus tibialis photographed in Indonesia by wildsumatra on iNaturalist.

[“She tells us to watch for rattlesnakes and that when we encounter an animal that can hurt us, our options are: fight, flight, or freeze. Apex predators are omnivores and have lots of options. If they surmise you’ll put up a fight, they’ll likely opt for smaller prey. But if you encounter a black bear, don’t look it in the eye. Just back away slowly. If you encounter a brown bear, roll up in a ball. Either way, don’t be afraid, our mother says. Be competent. I think of the way Mother freezes around Dad, acting confident and unaffected when his anger flares. When the predator is significantly bigger than we are, we know not to fight or run. This will reduce the severity of injury. What she teaches her daughters is different from what boys are taught at the Field, so we’re not allowed to talk about what we know.”]

Tenellia yamasui