mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Public interest technologist in Berlin. Free software, digital autonomy, internet governance. Working at the Sovereign Tech Agency. Blogging about what technology does to people, institutions, and power structures at tarakiyee.com. another internet is possible.
Audre Lorde's "master's tools" speech was not about tech platforms. So why does tech discourse keep citing it as if it were? I write about what happens when a Black feminist theorist's words get borrowed, stripped of context, and made to do work they were never meant to do.
https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/ #enshittification #AudreLorde #techpolicy
Putting the fundamental issues with GenAI aside for a second, I think I see a lot of parallels between self-driving cars and AI-generated programming. People are mostly okay drivers and okay programmers.
But a machine is always going to be faster and more precise in highly controlled enviroments. Except we don't live in highly controlled environments.
The political risk I see is that we start heading towards a world that's a highly controlled environment, a world built for LLMs not humans.
Wrote about oiling doors at FOSDEM: https://tarakiyee.com/oiling-the-doors-at-fosdem/ #FOSDEM #FOSS #OpenSource
The more I learn about the economy the more I question whether it's real or not.
I'm surprised not to see technical solutions be centered at the anti-techsolutionist conference. #cablesofresistance
RE: @evemassacre@mastodon.social
Who is in charge of our Research Queue and how can I get in touch with him.
Boom and bust sounds way too sexy for what it is actually referring to, economists control yourselves.
