Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

I love crystal gems but this sucks.

The miners are usually paid between 17 and 23 cents per kilogram for rose quartz

Labor exploitation.

I know the instinct is strong to try to twist everything around in our heads to not have to face these problems, to kid ourselves into thinking “it’s good actually”, that “our current society is just an accurate and optimized expression of how people prefer to live their lives within the limits of what they deserve”, but that’s why thinking and meta-thinking is so important: so we can rise above these hangups and these unshakable conclusions off of faulty premises and see the world not as a granite sculpture of blind justice, but as it really is: a tangled web of emergent systems created from interdependent processes, that we could’ve and should’ve changed before it wrecked the atmosphere. Now it might be too late but let’s try anyway.

Tesla is trying undermine workers rights in Sweden. 💔

Ayn Rand wrote a guide that Hollywood needed to conform to exactly. All in the name of individuality and free will 🤦🏻‍♀️

New study finds that in Sweden, anyone from the richest 1% emits at least ten times the CO2e as anyone from the poorest 50%.

Time to nosh on the posh.

Come on, darling, eat! 🍽️🤑🍽️

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