DanS30

Soon everywhere

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@Gaurab @ycombinator Such privacy, much wow!

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@emollick Bring on the dark forests 🤘

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@arscontexta /vibe-sleeping

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@usewhawit on-call sanity. it's the "omelas child" of the cloud stack

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nothing is free.

turned the omelas economy idea into an interactive experience.
10 short chapters.
one question: who pays when life feels frictionless?

check it out below.

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link + context:
https://t.co/byGqs50c3F
interactive, scroll-based, 10 chapters.

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open it: https://t.co/byGqs50c3F

run one audit today:
what looked free?
who paid now?
who pays later?

quote-reply with your example and i’ll break down the mechanism.

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it moves room by room:
urban space.
platforms.
attention.
care.
ai.

same pattern every time:
price goes down for you.
cost moves somewhere else.

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@emollick Guk guk!

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@KobeissiLetter Bring it on

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@arscontexta Very cool

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@poetengineer__ Incredible stuff ❤️

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@RileyRalmuto Love the work!

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5/ in 2014, accepting the national book award, she said: "we live in capitalism. its power seems inescapable. so did the divine right of kings." she died in 2018. i wrote about her omelas as a business model this week. but she already wrote about everything i tried to say. she just did it in five pages.

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1/ ursula le guin wrote "the ones who walk away from omelas" in 1973. five pages. a perfect city powered by one child's suffering in a basement. it might be the most important piece of fiction written in the last century. but it's not even her most radical idea. a thread.

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4/ she spent fifty years asking the same question from every angle. what are you willing to not see so your world can keep working. earthsea asked it about power. the left hand of darkness asked it about gender. the word for world is forest asked it about colonialism. omelas just asked it the most directly.

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16/ reply with one hidden payer you found.
if the payer is hard to name, you are probably in omelas territory.

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nothing is free.
free shipping. not free social feeds. cheap ai. no such things.
we are living in an omelas economy where costs are hidden, not gone.
much is advertised as free, yet nothing really is.
new article.

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https://t.co/4RnpMHe7XQ

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15/ run this 4-question audit on one product you used today:
what looked free?
who paid now?
who pays later?
who can change the default?