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Misanthropic

@techanthropy.bsky.social

PhD in media studies. Researching tech policy and human rights. Anon for now.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"We are in a world where an enormous amount is up for grabs. Muskism, across its various dimensions, is a project for grabbing as much as possible before anyone else figures out how to push back." www.programmablemutter.com/p/what-would...

What would Muskism be without Musk?

The mode of production behind the man

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Misanthropic @techanthropy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Controversies over public issues are rarely about--or resolved by--what "the evidence says." Reframing the data center backlash as a technocratic issue of "evidence" prescribes a specific kind conflict, one that depoliticizes a site of democratic struggle btwn local communities & corporate power.

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The data center backlash feels like the fake news/social media moral panic we just lived through - so many claims of widespread harm are being made with little or no convincing evidence to back them up blog.andymasley.com/p/why-i-thin.... @andymasley.bsky.social brings receipts - see all his posts

Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar highlights the AI Resist List: a global database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry. From legal challenges and worker organizing to artistic interventions, the project seeks to challenge the “scale at all costs” development of AI.

The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It.

Petra Molnar spotlights the launch of the AI Resist List, documenting global challenges to AI expansion.

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Misanthropic @techanthropy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul" - Lewis Mumford (1970)

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The reason people like the Pope’s AI missive is because there is simply no other institution has taken the side of humanity in the humanities sense. I’m not Catholic, but I am a human who cares about the human mind and the poetics Catholics call a soul.

Misanthropic @techanthropy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Lewis Mumford was right.

Lewis Mumford in The Myth of the Machine wrote: For its effective salvation mankind will need to undergo something like a spontaneous religious conversion: one that will replace the mechanical world picture with an organic world picture, and give to the human personality, as the highest known manifestation of life, the precedence it now gives to its machines and computers. This order of change is as hard for most people to conceive as was the change from the classic power complex of Imperial Rome to that of Christianity, or, later, from super nature medieval Christianity to the machine-modeled ideology of the seventeenth century. But such changes have repeatedly occurred all through history; and under catastrophic pressure they may occur again. Of only one thing we may be confident. If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul.

Misanthropic @techanthropy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Reclaiming Tolkien from the tech bros is a long overdue corrective.

Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · 2mo ago

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

213. The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”