@xenophora @tante See https://explaininghistory.org/2025/09/30/ibm-and-the-holocaust-technology-as-a-force-multiplier-for-genocide/ for a description of genocidal early database use. Lorde's assertion is also about destructive (house-dismantling) tool use. It's harder across the board to use tools constructively than destructively, but that's an eventuality of the 2nd law of thermodynamics, not any given political stance. Again, subversion will most often be unanticipated, not prescribe-able.
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Sasha Akhavi
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Audre Lorde's "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." -
Audre Lorde's "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."@tante In the conflict between Lorde's quote and Ani Difranco's "Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right," Difranco's insight wins every time. If UX has taught nothing else throughout its history, it has taught that users always subvert tools in ways their developers could never expect. This goes double for digital tools given their abstraction: E.g. databases have a horrible, genocidal early history, but most liberatory projects use them today.
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We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running.@briankrebs "Written comments and/or suggestions regarding the item(s) contained in this notice must include the OMB Control Number 1651–0111 in the subject line and the agency name. Please submit written comments and/or suggestions in English. Please use the following method to submit comments:
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When I was in middle school this girl, Cricket was always talking about her "boyfriend from Canada"@futurebird Kyle is real; Canada is fake