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Kill the "user": Musings of a disillusioned technologist

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That this is a house of cards and that user grievance spread by word of mouth can ultimately bite the corporate personhood in the proverbial buttocks is of little matter to the average executive, given typically precarious leadership tenures and of course the wad of fuck-you money hidden under the mattress, no doubt some of it due to self-dealing and a little bit of securities fraud on the side, as a treat. Meanwhile “Experience” implies something sterile and dead, a curated natural history museum filled with captured specimens and the nauseating smell of formaldehyde, aimed at “delight” (titillation), instead of a deeper, more respectful relationship with the people that are living through the numbered days of the torment nexus. Because in a world delineated by the overreaching ambitions of those building everything apps, and the walled gardens, and the tasteless, soul devoid wastelands populated by AI ghouls and hungry content juggernauts, there is something refreshing about the idea of people making small, meaningful things for one other.

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