Comments on: “Notification” is a dishonest euphemism https://www.isegoria.net/2022/07/notification-is-a-dishonest-euphemism/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:13:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Pseudo-Chrysostom https://www.isegoria.net/2022/07/notification-is-a-dishonest-euphemism/comment-page-1/#comment-3556067 Pseudo-Chrysostom Fri, 22 Jul 2022 17:08:08 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49107#comment-3556067 You can see it in Windows 10 too, where any ‘settings’ you make in configuration will just undo themselves with the next ‘update’, so users just give up and become increasingly bovinized.

The ‘user disempowerment’ trend in software is just one more of innumerable vectors through which the fall-out of the American Empire’s officially unofficial state religion expresses itself; of life under a gnostic theocracy; which vacillates between atomized faithlessness at best, and consciously validated antagonism to the good, true, or beautiful at worst.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y

Quality is ultimately a spiritual factor; appliances today – like many things today – are shitty not merely because of lacking in any instrumental means, but because of lacking in mindset that sees any value in pursuing such ends in the first place.

Folk everywhere look for nourishing bread of spirit, but their jailors offer only stones. And many will take those stones anyways, and choke on them, as many all around are choking, choking each other, for there is nothing else for them.

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