Aral Balkan<p>Folks working in tech, ask yourselves:</p><p>“Am I making tools or am I making traps?”</p><p>If you’re doing the latter (and, let’s face it, if you work in Big Tech, you’re 99% doing the latter), maybe you should think about where and how you can do the former instead.</p><p>Y’know, ’cos democracy and even the future of the species might depend on it.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/tools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tools</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/traps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>traps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a></p>