@mhoye I'm re-reading "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" and nodding so hard that my neck is starting to hurt.

"At issue is the claim that the machines, structures, and systems of modern material culture can be accurately judged not only for their contributions of efficiency and productivity, not merely for their positive and negative environmental side effects, but also for the ways in which they can embody specific forms of power and authority."

That's only the opening paragraph.

@mhoye Barrel laugh of the day for "by verifying the kernel worked" without specifying what extremely limited interpretation of "works" they were using.

@mhoye "This was a clean-room implementation" 🤔
(that was trained on the whole internet, presumably including GCC).

Great news everyone thanks to my significant advances in modern algorithmic analysis I am personally able to outperform a warehouse full of specialized GPUs by five orders of magnitude with a single ARM core for one one-millionth the cost in 0.1% of the time by training the "cp" command on only the GCC source and then compiling the output of that program with GCC.

The resulting compiler - which I'm calling "mhoyecc", or as I've taken to calling it, mhoye plus cc, passes 100% of GCC's tests.