In that passage, Lorde is simultaneously “far smarter than I am about nearly everything” and also wrong about the thing that matters for the argument at hand. The invocation and the dismissal occur in the same breath.

This is, structurally, a version of what Lorde was diagnosing in 1979.

On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: “The Master’s Tools” in Tech Discourse

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the thought “coffee is tea” entered my head unbidden and i had to make the whole alignment chart in order to banish it — @▽ some dragns (@chr@scalie.business)

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the thought “coffee is tea” entered my head unbidden and i had to make the whole alignment chart in order to banish it — @▽ some dragns (@chr@scalie.business)

What’s something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a “hot take” among the general public?

If something has an 80% chance of succeeding, it should succeed about 80% of the time, give or take.

Mike Cook (@mtrc.bsky.social)

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whatever man Sure let me login with wetdry world who gives a shit — Niko (@gayfamicom.lol)

whatever man Sure let me login with wetdry world who gives a shit — Niko (@gayfamicom.lol)

My new hobby: operating half a dozen fake github repos full of textbook heisenbug implementations in popular languages and not opting out of their compulsory code theft @Rob Isaac (@rmi@cloudisland.nz)

if we found the smallest possible gay man who wouldn’t be considered a twink, that man would be the bear minimum Sable, Final Girl 🏳️‍⚧️ (@ghostlysable.bsky.social)

made a cheat sheet for the three types of people who play marathon.
please share this with your friends. — Harris “Sekiguchi Mane” Foster (@harris.zone)

made a cheat sheet for the three types of people who play marathon.

please share this with your friends. — Harris “Sekiguchi Mane” Foster (@harris.zone)

Made very few changes to the latest build and was thinking maybe I’ll be able to ship this one without incrementing the shame version (last number in a version number) and 2 minutes into testing, it’s already getting bumped. — Moo Yu (Mythmatch Out...

Made very few changes to the latest build and was thinking maybe I’ll be able to ship this one without incrementing the shame version (last number in a version number) and 2 minutes into testing, it’s already getting bumped. — Moo Yu (Mythmatch Out Now!) (@oneofmoo.bsky.social)

men in their 40s used to have cool midlife crisis but now they just have agentic workflows pedram.md (@pdrmnvd)

Chicken caeser…but does chicken …hear her?….does chicken understand her?….does chicken tender….? Big Ol’ Aba🪴 (@theabaverse)

Meanwhile bike fuel prices have not changed at Costco. — Denver is too damn high 🚲 (@yodelinghippie.bsky.social)

Meanwhile bike fuel prices have not changed at Costco. — Denver is too damn high 🚲 (@yodelinghippie.bsky.social)

“ Everybody’s trying to be Fortnite and if you don’t make a Fortnite then everybody gets laid off, but it ends up even if you do make a Fortnite then everybody gets laid off
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— Will Borger @ PAX East (@edgarallanbro.bsky.social)

Everybody’s trying to be Fortnite and if you don’t make a Fortnite then everybody gets laid off, but it ends up even if you do make a Fortnite then everybody gets laid off

Will Borger @ PAX East (@edgarallanbro.bsky.social)