Was talking to someone about how we're on the verge of losing the internet to corporate interests forever and find myself incredibly angry at how even the smartest technologists I know are content to just roll over and take it

The future where our corporate masters control our very ability to communicate and share information broadly is not an inevitable outcome. It is completely avoidable. And yet, here we are.

I'm not going to bother writing a soliloquy because I truly don't think people care, but all of this is to say I think I'm going to go read the ActivityPub and AT protocols this weekend with my extra days off

I'll leave with this: As designers (in technology), our job has very little to do with icons and buttons and the endless pursuit of beautiful things. Our job is to understand all of the possible futures that exist and shepherd people to the right one through things they can see

I also ponder a lot on how the rise of the cloud and development frameworks and no code has been a false democratization of tech. It's made "creating" more accessible, but in exchange has created a rather insidious reliance on a few large tech companies.