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Re:Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:51PM (#23107417)
Thank you for the banal correction of Google vs Alphabet

And comparing website dev to community planning

And ignoring the argument that communities are stuck focusing on profit generation which is acting as a block on their agency to collectively improve their communities

Did you actually read the post or get stuck on the alphabet not google part and fill in the rest of the post with non sequitur?

Food delivery existed before “tech companies”

I’m not sure you are living on Earth. You do know society existed before the year 2000, yes?

We’re ridiculing tech companies for capturing our agency. It has nothing to do with their technology but the social aspects of curving the masses attention to profit generating fiefdom a minority control

Religion and monarchy before that operated on basically the same pattern in the abstract

We don’t talk of sky wizard but we do talk of appropriate behavior that aligns with economics models of men paid a lot to make those economics models. We rejected God but replaced him godly men of industry. Right back to literal fetishizing a minority of real men like they’re kings. Oh and look at what’s up in the Oval Office. Coincidence?

The bias is deep in the limbic brain which heavily influences our agency response

It’s why I don’t curate an online identity. I don’t need to fetishize some profile that goes away if the servers shut down

Stop importing other peoples semantic objects and applying your agency to their study and care. We still need tech but we don’t need Google

Invent your own