Hot take:

Humane technology is a useful descriptor because it's not a given. Like, try to find it in "move fast and break things."

But people-centric feels increasingly confused to me. More often than not, you can replace it with 'retvrn' without loss of meaning.
Technology changes the way we relate to each other.

And with it, our aspirations, institutions and mediators.

It expands some things, but contracts others.

But some states aren't really accessible anymore.
I quote this every day.

Except, well, I don't -- a cron job does.

And I'm okay with that.

Just like I'm okay with algorithmic curation. https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1345414557913632768
Mostly, I want my environment to better fit me.

That doesn't mean I want to do more of the work myself.

Like, heirloom thinking or something.

That doesn't even exist!

Hell, even books make that impossible.
I'm already (willfully) maxed out, cognitively.

I just want better tools.
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