Jim quietly smiled in response while looking away from the young software engineer, “You know what I did before this? Before coding?”
“No.”
“I was a chemical plant operator. You can’t just restart one of those. The fire, the spark, the pressurization, the catalyzation, it has to keep running. Has to be tended at all times. You walk the jungles of process lines at 4AM and feel their swirling and vibration and heat. They are a physical thing. An obligation. They are more a child than the thing back there will ever be, John. You drop them and they break forever. You talk about your fear of machines. But I know someone killed by a machine.”
John started to talk, but was gently preempted in a rumbly voice.
“A human decided that. Not the braided stainless steel hose rotting away. A human decided it could last longer, to save money. That machine was just a messenger for the choice of a man.”
npub1d4…7kpws
2024-01-10 02:07:48
Author Public Key
npub1d432c5fu63d6x29823n45mw2ff5yyfh8u4mc03yxmgxtjrq6rfgqh7kpwsPublished at
2024-01-10 02:07:48Event JSON
{
"id": "206a87137c3ba24350d9a9d58aeeb79dde3db06a0605b37720afd62bfcdc8247",
"pubkey": "6d62ac513cd45ba328a754675a6dca4a684226e7e57787c486da0cb90c1a1a50",
"created_at": 1704848868,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://infosec.exchange/users/SwiftOnSecurity/statuses/111728975448591370",
"activitypub"
]
],
"content": "Jim quietly smiled in response while looking away from the young software engineer, “You know what I did before this? Before coding?”\n“No.”\n“I was a chemical plant operator. You can’t just restart one of those. The fire, the spark, the pressurization, the catalyzation, it has to keep running. Has to be tended at all times. You walk the jungles of process lines at 4AM and feel their swirling and vibration and heat. They are a physical thing. An obligation. They are more a child than the thing back there will ever be, John. You drop them and they break forever. You talk about your fear of machines. But I know someone killed by a machine.”\nJohn started to talk, but was gently preempted in a rumbly voice.\n“A human decided that. Not the braided stainless steel hose rotting away. A human decided it could last longer, to save money. That machine was just a messenger for the choice of a man.”",
"sig": "9c667c623b4f9d22bf4f7866a2e01a0258672706ea3e31c8fb9bbb08c6e2f74d02f2387ff18ef49d9766f9044279f2eefbf6e19b116c0eef4b4724faaf296a2e"
}