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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/08/2026

Threatening people with inevitability doesn't work anymore. Overemphasizing the benefits and minimizing the risks doesn't work anymore. Dismissing peoples concerns because they aren't deeply rooted in the technical details doesn't work anymore. The days of steamrolling hesitancy are gone.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/08/2026

If you want people to engage with a technology you care about, you have to find ways to frame it around providing them with some agency. You also have to be ready for people to just say "fuck you, no" and be OK with that. You have to learn to center people and not the technology itself.

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Emotional Support Reply Guy @jacobecon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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Part of it seems to be at this point we've created a tech industry culture that isn't used to selling to consumers. Investors? Oh they're great at selling to those. But customers? They're kinda assumed if you toss it out there.

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Semi-feral Post Monger @dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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Hello, my name is "fuck you, no"

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booond @booond.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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Like cigarettes. They will kill you but you'll look cool. AI is going to steal your water and electricity but look at these great spreadsheets.

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B @bryyyyguy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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Many recent tech "innovations" revolving around enabling scams at scale and shoving ads and underlying surveillance into everything is not helping.

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Raging Spirit @ragingspirit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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That's the crucial difference between the Jobs-era innovation and today: Jobs used his manipulative talents to understand what customers want and sell it to them, the current tech industry uses its manipulative tactics to just extract more while giving worse products.

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öx45tallboy @ox45tallboy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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What these AI people don't understand is that first and foremost, the technology can never do what they claim in its current form. It's a text prediction algorithm, not a thinking machine. And secondly, people don't even want the things they say it will be able to do.

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Thomas Lavoy @thomaslavoy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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I work on Windows. Long before AI that resulted in immediate "fuck yous" from half the internet and yeah, I just kinda have to learn to take it. And if someone is complaining about something they don't like I've learned to respond by figuring out how to help them instead of being defense.

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Hap @hapchem.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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the problem is that tech seems to have shifted from "we do useful things for people for money" to "we get useful things (money, saleable information) from people who can't say no and can't leave and use it to do evil" and remarkably enough, this does not lend to being viewed positively.

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Tree man: Aotearoa @dfromaotearoa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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(Trying to turn off my lane departure notifications)

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 21/08/2026

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I think a lot of times with AI they do think they are centering people. You are missing out if you’re not using it and they’re here to help you make your life better.

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eevee @eev.ee · 22/08/2026

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oh damn "don't center the technology" sure crystallizes a lot of this

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