Hell yeah bro.

George called me on the Joe Pesci line to say this is fucked up.

Zed! Fastest GUI editor out there other than Sublime Text.

I get what you're saying, and you're right that a lot of early tech was janky. But it was also built to solve problems for the user, not to self destruct within 5 years so they buy another one. Engineers and experts in companies used to have more sway when they put their hand up, now there are professionally designed mechanisms in companies to silence and undermine them.

I grew up in the 1990s, and there genuinely was a shared belief that technology could make life better, that systems could become more humane, more efficient, and more empowering over time. Even when the solutions were rough, they were often built by people who cared deeply about understanding the problem and improving things incrementally. Not to boost their share price or go viral on social media.

What feels different now isn't that the tech is imperfect, but that large parts of the tech industry have deprioritised understanding and craftsmanship in favour of growth, optics, and financial engineering. The jank used to come from constraints; today it often comes from misaligned incentives. I am weary of attending 'tech' events because the focus isn't science, innovation or improving peoples lives - it's about fundraising and networking.

It feels like we're at the endgame of the corporate mentality in technology. "Tech" used to imply expertise, craft, and a commitment to quality; now it's mostly a buzzword for raising capital and PR.

Real progress these days mostly comes from enthusiasts and small teams, not hierarchical, ego-driven organisations that prioritise the share price over their human talent. Not "startup bros" racing to get another Node.js app funded, but the freaks and weirdoes staying up until sunrise reading obscure 1990s whitepapers and translating them into Python to fix a random Blender ticket because they actually care.

I often wonder what would happen if we funded those passionate weirdoes who just want to help. Pay them an income to go around the neighbourhood, setting up cloud backups for everyone, organising systems, and building solutions that actually work. This rigid adherence to a classist, centralised society built around wealth isn't just obscene and inhuman, it's making us dumber and blocking the kinds of solutions that should already exist.

Is that why the company is becoming more thuggish? Desperately searching for scapegoats?

Go back to IBM OS/2 Warp 4! Back when there was still actual choices in desktop computing...

Correct. Even if the guillotine took out every billionaire tonight the next lot would pop up and and carry on the same evil work unless we fix the system.

The way we think about economics and finance is completely rotten from the inside - notably the two speed economy that separates the "investor" class from the "worker" class.

In Australia we spend more on tax breaks for land lords than all government programs for affordable housing combined.

It was never about efficiency or merit, the financial system has had enough to cater for everyone's needs through much of the 20th century, let alone the 21st. Now we just need people to wake up and fight back. Change one problem at a time.

It's gonna take generations to fix.

Here in Australia we measure the flow of electricity in Kangaroo Hops per Hour.

Oh no, exploitative capitalists don't wanna fuck over Canadians. Must suck for them....

To fascists there's no weapon more frightening than the truth itself.

The worst part is all our data is stored on American servers run by megacorpos. ID information scanned by venue terminals is one, but even private health records and sensitive government documents are being chucked into Amazon S3, Azure/OneDrive and Dropbox.

The government should be prioritising secure, independent digital infrastructure but they're too busy giving our tax dollars to foreign consulting firms so they can build bad websites.