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Designing tools for the social Internet. Currently working on augmented browsing utility.

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I agree. That has always been a matter of corporate principal for SHOP. Now, they are leaning even more into their "free speech" farse, allowing almost anyone and anything that may generate sales. Partly because they know that political and public opinion recently leans towards less oversight, less moral scrutiny, and less enforcement.

That's true. "Woke" has become a catch-all for logical, moral reasoning and behavior that in any way contradicts pure profit motive. I misused the term. And SHOP definitely was never a haven of actual woke corporate policy. But even slightly leaning towards woke = big trouble in the current political environment, even if it means condoning sale of hate speech or related goods.

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Don't wanna attract the anti-woke police. All of SV appears to be behaving like good little Andreesen/Trump/Musk sheople.

Interestingly, as the breadth and complexity of Google product grows, the need for true customer service grows, disproportionately. Very few of us needed "customer support" for Google Search, but for many of their newer, more complex products, it's a must. Google either missed this need altogether, or they decided that even with crappy/no CS, they could still make a killing with half-assed products/support. Thoughts?

The collection is beautiful. Making these works available to the whole world, in an online searchable format is very valuable.

The search facet designations offered by Freer Sackler are useful. It would be cool if visitors/users could generate their own facet designations to allow for user-derived contextual value and meaning related to attributes of each work. Hashtag-enabled comments and meta-collections would be a good first step.

Do you think this would be useful?