Hi, I'm Eric.
I’m an avid world traveler, photographer, software developer, and digital storyteller.
I help implement the Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe.
Hi, I'm Eric.
I’m an avid world traveler, photographer, software developer, and digital storyteller.
I help implement the Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe.
Found on 16 October 2024 via Mastodon 548
via Matt Weagle (@mweagle@hachyderm.io): “Mmmmmmmm, others. The ones who have always stood a little bit outside the system. Who could never quite adjust themselves to the right configuration to fit into the workings. Who have always felt a bit out of place. Who look at the systems, all of them, and wonder, Is this really the best we can do? “
Annie Mueller on how the systems we build to serve a goal eventually grow into mutant beasts whose only real purpose is their own survival — until the people no longer serve the goal, they serve the system. The sharpest part is her taxonomy of how people react when a system is threatened: those who can’t see the system as a system fight for it as if reality itself were crumbling, while those who recognize it as a structure imposed on reality are the only ones with the power to change it.
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