Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort
Do people really measure berries by “gallons”?
What technology takes from us – and how to take it back
Submitted 6 days ago by HailSeitan@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
HailSeitan@lemmy.world 5 days ago
If you’re picking them, you’re probably paid by the gallon
nyan@lemmy.cafe 5 days ago
Only in the US. But they do tend to be measured and sold by volume (rather than weight) in contexts like farmer’s markets and pick-your-own operations.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
It is not technology that takes away from us, it is the people behind that decide how they are deployed. Stop moving the blame to the tech, blame the people.
HailSeitan@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Why not both? We can oppose both Gemini and Pichai
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Because technology isn’t to blame. Technology doesn’t have any agenda or intrinsic capacity for malice…the people behind it do. The people who decide to use the capabilities of technology with malicious intent are to blame, they should be blamed for all of it. Do not let technology share the load of that blame, it is only the people behind that should that, they er personally to blame because they actively chose to use technology maliciously when they could just have chosen not to.