“Deep in Mordor where the shadows lie: Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google”

> let’s talk about capitalism and anarchism, about the precariat and surveillance, plush dolls and churrascarias and gay argots; let us go back in time and space, and journey to tropical Brazil in the distant time of 2007…

https://wordsmith.social/elilla/deep-in-mordor-where-the-shadows-lie-dystopian-stories-of-my-time-as-a-googler

via @techtakes

Edit: if you’re reading this from Lemmy, use the original thread instead: https://awful.systems/post/4558700

  • swlabr
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    7 个月前

    No shade: was this post intentionally cross/reposted here? Original thread.

    E: ah, this is from mastodon. I don’t know how federation etc. works.

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      E: ah, this is from mastodon. I don’t know how federation etc. works.

      yep! any mastodon post whose first line looks like a subject line and which tags the community is treated by Lemmy as a new thread in that community. now, you might think that’s an awful mechanism in that it’s very hard to get right on purpose but very easy to accidentally activate if you’re linking and properly citing an article in the format that’s most natural on mastodon. and you’d be correct!

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        @self Argh! I had no idea! I do see my post there.
        Feel free to hide it or whatever you can do to remove the duplicate if that’s an issue.

        @swlabr

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          no problem at all! I don’t think the duplicate’s too much of an issue, and this way the article gets more circulation on both Mastodon and Lemmy.

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        Ah, I guess it just really do be like that sometimes!

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      @swlabr right, I was confused by your reply!

      I did find it on that thread, hence the *via*, (although a direct link would have been better) but decided to make a new post with an excerpt.