Thread · 4 tweets · 6 Mar 2020

"Allowing people who share responsibility for our tech dystopia to keep control of the narrative means we never get to the bottom of how and why we got here, and we artificially narrow the possibilities for where we go next."

"The prodigal tech bro doesn’t want structural change. He is reassurance, not revolution. He’s invested in the status quo, if we can only restore the founders’ purity of intent. (…) Those others who said years ago what he’s telling you right now? They’re troublemakers."

"These ‘I was lost but now I’m found, please come to my TED talk’ accounts typically miss most of the actual journey, yet claim the moral authority of one who’s ‘been there’ but came back. It’s a teleportation machine, but for ethics."

I could keep on quoting but just reading the original from beginning to end is *way* better: "The Prodigal Techbro", one more excellent piece from @mariafarrell. conversationalist.org/2020/03/05/the…