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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by fasterandworse@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

I don’t really have much to say… it kind of speaks for itself. I do appreciate the table of contents so you don’t get lost in the short paragraphs though

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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago

I figured out this manifesto exists because somebody from the EFF posted: "Nothing depresses me like the knowledge that I am going to have to spend some of my precious workday reading a manifesto." So expect a lot of sanity damage.

(Read the opening, yep, got 1d8 from that already. I'm raising the 'the invention of letters was a mistake' flag).

[-] cstross@wandering.shop 7 points 1 year ago

@Soyweiser Has he been huffing Marinetti's exhaust fumes again?

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yep, it's in there

To paraphrase a manifesto of a different time and place: “Beauty exists only in struggle. There is no masterpiece that has not an aggressive character. Technology must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force them to bow before man.”

[-] maol@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

He's quoting the futurists? Didn't half of them go fascist?

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

just making sure everyone knows who he looks up to, telling everyone who it is that inspires him! you know how people gush about their role models

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry I have no idea who you are talking about here. I was referring to Eva. (I saw her post and went 'wonder what that could be about' and then I saw this here and everything fell into place).

Anyway, more ontopic, I wonder if this a sign our '20th century 2.0' replay has arrived at the futurist art movement? Or if that ship has long sailed and was more started by Land in the 90's.

This time the art sucks.

(Edit: Guess you were talking about Marc)

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