Essential essay by @beccalew.bsky.social about how Silicon Valley’s flirtations with fascism and defense of white male power are nothing new — but a return to what many of the industry’s current leaders would’ve learned in the 1990s when right-wing figures warned of the “pussification” of tech.
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I wrote this in 2018. Not sure if you ever saw it.
“If you will forgive me this general observation, the internet & present societal norms & expectations concerning internet conduct are built on a very male model in which consent is assumed.”
https://medium.com/@nturkewitz_56674/sati-marks-handprints-left-by-the-wives-of-the-maharaja-before-they-immolated-themselves-on-his-f430c6bf6ad6