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# Tech continues to be political
- URL: https://werd.io/tech-continues-to-be-political/
- Published: 2025-02-16T13:52:47.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-16T13:52:47.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Technology, Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Miriam Eric Suzanne](https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2025/02/12/tech-ai-wtf/)\]

Every single word of this piece resonated for me, from the underlying discomfort to the realization that AI as it currently manifests reflects a kind of fascist mindset in itself: an enclosure movement of culture and diversity that concentrates power into a handful of vendors.

This is true of me too:

> "Based on every conference I’ve attended over the last year, I can absolutely say we’re a fringe minority. And it’s wearing me out. I don’t know how to participate in a community that so eagerly brushes aside the active and intentional/foundational harms of a technology. In return for what? Faster copypasta? Automation tools being rebranded as an “agentic” web? Assurance that we won’t be left behind?"

I think drawing the line between "tech" and "the web" is important, and this piece captures *exactly* how I've been feeling about it:

> "“Tech” was always a vague and hand-waving field – a way to side-step regulations while starting an unlicensed taxi company or hotel chain. That was never my interest.  
>  
> But I got curious about the web, a weird little project built for sharing research between scientists. And I still think this web could be pretty cool, actually, if it wasn’t trapped in the clutches of big tech. If we can focus on the bits that make it special – the bits that make it unwieldy for capitalism."

So this post made me (1) feel less alone (2) like I want to be friends with its author. This *is* a fringe feeling, unfortunately, but if enough of us stick together, maybe we can manifest an alternative.

[#Technology](https://werd.io/tag/Technology)

\[[Link](https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2025/02/12/tech-ai-wtf/)\]