I know I’ve written a lot, at length, about politics and lessons learned. My most recent post is inherently political.
I thought maybe white supremacy would be extinquished. I thought extensive antitrust enforcement would change company behavior. I thought maybe, just maybe, customer sentiment would get companies to back off on shoving more ads, tracking, genAI, down our throats. I thought maybe a collective upset would make companies see we don’t want the death of generalized, cheap computing.
None of that seems to have happened, or worked.
None of this is a matter of progression, or evolution, or people learning. The information is there. People were loud about it. Those who we keep thinking we can “change their mind” or change their behavior, don’t.
We keep giving chances, and exceptions, and trust to those who have literally abused every opportunity they’ve been given. Companies, republicans, anyone with power – they take the stance of “fuck you, I do what I want.”
So what are we to do?
At some point, any person needs to be told “no.” If corporations-are-people (ugh), then we need to tell corporations, government, anybody who’s starting down the path of ruining what’s good for the rest of us the full and complete sentence:
No.