We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need? This is a sign for how fucking atrophied our mental muscles are. How limited our space for thinking about how things should be. You want to democratize "going to therapy"? Make it "free" as in paid by socialized healthcare. You want to democratize "making art"? Give people money and free time to express themselves. None of these things are meaningfully addressed through tech. It's always about the political struggle to give people what they need and deserve.

Never cared much for Omarchy: It's being made by a right-wing dipshit with no experience with Linux and distributions who's whole "Opinion" seems to be that "90ies Hacker movie look" is what makes a good operating system. But when I read this actual review

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A Word on Omarchy

An in-depth look at the currently trending Arch Linux configuration that is Omarchy.

I was shocked by how bad it actually is: Technologically but also as an "opinionated Linux distribution". Sad to see that @npub15f7r...m7wr tanked their reputation within their target audience in support of this underbaked Linux-Hacker-Cosplay thing.

I do think that this framing isn't fully correct. "Open Source" often has a libertarian (and therefore explicitly non-left) bend. It can be put into left thinking and politics but it works just as well in more right-wing logics. (See Golumbia, Cyberlibertarianism)

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Philip Mallegol-Hansen (@philip@mallegolhansen.com)

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the very idea of Open Source was always a radical left leaning ideological stance. You're GIVING AWAY lab...