By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/06/2026But the *only* way to make that change in a software system that has been programmed to treat the "gender" field as immutable is to *change society itself*. 47/ 1122 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/06/2026In this way, computers are machines for teaching us what we don't know about ourselves. They require that we interrogate and faithfully recreate our personal tacit knowledge, and they require that our *societies* interrogate their tacit presumptions as well. 48/ 2240 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/06/2026When you are forced to turn your tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge, you're also forced to confront how many broken assumptions lurk inside your reasoning. At best, it's a clarifying process. 49/ 2193 0
Rick @rickdaly.bsky.social · 06/06/2026 Early yet, spent a winter with Windows 2000, used the chess master program to deconstruct the e-2 to e-4 opening...glorious draws are probably the future...? (also the typing tutor) 000 0
