I’m putting pieces of the picture together in my head and I’m just increasingly horrified by HandUp
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well, sold you a sandwich
okay, they made you a smartphone app in order to connect you with other users looking to get rid of their excess sandwiches
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@sarahjeong i agree with most of this. i think handup itself is nobly intended, but its existence highlights a shameful effect of the tech -
@sarahjeong so handup can both be a thing that's not inherently bad but an indicator of a larger & much awfuller context in which it thrives -
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@sarahjeong but absent a fix for the moral crevasse into which handup operates, is it socially deleterious for it to prosper? -
@crulge I think things can come out ahead on net social utility and still be objectionable on other grounds
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@sarahjeong The world is better with Uber and Lyft than without, but all the proprietary walled-garden shit is still pretty horrifying.Merci. Twitter en tiendra compte pour améliorer votre fil. SupprimerSupprimer
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@sarahjeong also, the history on using "crowds" to drive social policy is mixed. -
@sarahjeong & if it were used to illuminate a problem and create support for actual solutions, cool. but it's a rejection of those solutions
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@sarahjeong Twitter's "X more replies" made me think Handup was a sandwich app and that made it much more appealing.#sandwichesaregoodMerci. Twitter en tiendra compte pour améliorer votre fil. SupprimerSupprimer
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