when i was a kid they told me metadata was bad and that’s why i don’t know how to check a book out of the library
@Satsuma are you too young to remember the snowden leaks
@Lady no i remember them i’m just not sure why yr bringing this up
@Satsuma oh i was in a discord chat with someone and the conversation went
me: love metadata stuff
friend: gotta have it!
which still gives me minor cognitive dissonance after being bombarded constantly with news about how the government was keeping track of metadata and that’s bad or facebook has all your metadata and that’s bad or your metadata is being used to determine whether or not you can get on a plane and that’s bad
@Satsuma right but nobody ever talks about the good uses, like, finding a book in a library