Rosano / Journal

3 entries for Wednesday, December 17, 2025

How to free your mind from BIG TECH propaganda

[Techno-optimists promote the idea of progress as a high score that constantly accumulates (often conveniently through their platforms); this masks the way new technologies commodify and become baseline needs, their absence leaving us not simply with 'less', but an incapacity to function in society that expects it everywhere.]

[I appreciate that they shared this in a public space and not via direct message or email because it enables others who might find the information useful to discover it.]

[With direct messages, you may contribute but the risk is higher that no one will see it.]

Destigmatize being dumb

Any system that rewards finding flaws will improve. Apple, Google, etc will pay you a lot of money if you can find a security flaw in any of their systems. The military does this with matters of life & death (if admitting failure is punished, people hide failure). If you find an inefficiency in the economy, you can make a lot of money fixing it (through betting on the stock market, or starting a business).