Oddbean new post about login | logout I see the “what’s so bad about spy cops anyway?” neoliberal Twitter tech crowd have made it to Mastodon. Guys, I gotta say, I hadn’t missed you one bit.
@022a7c10 We have a gadget spy cop archetype in our modern collective unconscious. I'm thinking of Q in James Bond films, Lucius Fox in Batman, and Marshall Flinkman in Alias. Any of these characters would love to work with mondo microcontrollers for spy purposes. I think there is something here, a key to the "neoliberal twitter crowd" as you call it. We all have our unexamined archetypes, right? Does it work to shine a light on it by shouting, "Thunderbirds are go!"??