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2026-10-27 02:43:32 GMT

Note from Oct 26, 2026
🔄 Reposted:
https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/slouching-to-bethlehem
And yet, you can see things falling apart at the edges. It’s been years, possibly even a full decade, since a new technological fad was meaningfully good: since it offered something to make our lives unambiguously better, even if it came with a cost. Existing technology has become increasingly extractive: Facebook and Twitter have both become primarily outlets for far-right propaganda, with any actual use they have being purely incidental. Windows now serves you advertising in the start bar. Altman’s chatbots are causing people to lose touch with reality entirely, and between all these things the very ways in which we make meaning and determine quality are disintegrating: everything solid melts into air. And because history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce, there’s not even the basic good faith that we had to fall back on the first time around: we’ve been here before, we’ve seen how it goes. As always, the first people suggest that things might be going wrong, back in the 90s, were called paranoid, slandered and ignored.
We’re forced, in the end, to reckon with the obscene.
The obscene is categorically different from the merely evil or intolerable. Bill Gates being the richest man in the world as a result of building Microsoft can fairly be described as evil and intolerable, but we can fit it into our system of the world. Elon Musk being the richest man in the world after having profited from child labour in his father’s emerald mine, then buying Twitter and turning into a propaganda channel for the far-right, attempting to have as many children as possible via artificial insemination, begging to be invited to Jeffrey Epstein’s island and building an LLM which regularly calls itself mecha-Hitler is an obscenity. There’s no real system of the world that can appropriately contextualise the fact that people like this both exist and that they have a lot of power over us.
Finally, in times like these, one of the best things we can do is witness and record it. Make records of what’s happening, write, above all, keep what’s happening now in memory. We may well not be able to make sense of it now at all, but should a revelation come, we or those who come after us may be able to put things into place. We can preserve what we’re dealing with now and integrate the obscenity that we see later, and those who come after may benefit from our work in recording what we live through as we live it.
And so, we wait and watch, as the world falls apart around us, writing down the names, the deeds and the dates.
https://aman.bh/notes/2026/10/26/a6b32
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