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In this paper the author highlights how both engineers and social scientists misinterpret the relationship between technology and society. In particular he attacks the narrative, widespread among engineers, that technological artifacts, such as software, have no political properties in themselves and that function or efficiency are the only drivers of technological design and implementation.

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[-] refalo@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago

And what exactly do you call navigating different opinions and proposals for actions in a community setting? That is LITERALLY politics.

I call it yet another opinion. Like I said, I don't think there is a point in trying to tell people how they should define things.

What's considered politics to you is not the same for everyone, and there's nothing you can do about it.

[-] fr0g@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

Just because politics the phenomenon involves subjective opinions doesn't mean the definition of the term is somehow subjective, or at least not any more or less subjective than any other term.
Opinions are subjective, but we still all pretty much agree what an opinion is and what isn't. Because while opinions are subjective, the term "opinion" isn't.

This is literally the basis of human communication. If things and terms didn't more or less mean the same thing for different speakers, we would be unable to communicate with each other.

If terms were generally completely subjective and up to the individual, there would be no point in you talking with me, or anyone else, because you could never be sure if who you are talking to even remotely means the thing that you think they mean.

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