"Fascism ... is committed to a play of power and aesthetics that regards a desire for truthfulness as an admission of weakness. It loves a bullshit generator, because it cannot conceive of a debate as anything but a fight for power..."
“We are up against an ideology that has given up … on the livability of our shared world …. The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.” – Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein
„This is because the conviction that #technology is neutral is not itself neutral; it paradoxically functions as the conviction that this #neutrality is itself a good thing, so as to sanction the technological development of more neutral tools.“ – Anton Barba-Kay, @HedgehogReview
We know that #BigTech consumes tons of energy & water. What was missed is that they are also attempting to control ecological transition paths turning govs & societies even more dependent on them
Hi @nafeez.bsky.social I am reading Alt Reich & it is fantastic. I‘ve been reading Susanne Kaisers Backlash parallel. Another book of her Political Masculinity is out in English. If you haven’t heard about her work, please check her out. Best regards! www.politybooks.com/search?s=Pol...
Today the OpenAI Nonprofit Commission released a report asserting OpenAI is ‘positioned to be a force of good in this Age of Intelligence’. The report also claims that AI Now was among the orgs participating in the listening process that led to this report. We did not.
If we are to effectively combat the AI industry’s accelerating push to build digital gods in the form of AGI, we have to understand the ideological underpinnings of the antihumanist project, writes Dr. Émile P. Torres.
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
Answer: You want to use AI avatars to control the way refugees are represented, to further dehumanize them, and to render real refugees invisible as well as to gamify reality and truth.
I have read many texts by this author. His imagination is completely captured by neoliberal market fundamentalism. His responses often reveal that he doesn’t understand how big tech and silicon valley operate. His writings on tech are often lack context. Still good you get to say something here.
Right wing ideas are totally mainstream now. They are the new norm. They need a group to point fingers to. The shame they feel, if they would face reality, is to much of a burden.
The staging of the interview as a BBQ is especially relevant here.
"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."
„Die fossile Brennstoffindustrie ist nicht nur ein wirtschaftlich-technisches System. Sie ist Teil eines umfassenden Geflechts von Privilegien und Hierarchien, das seit Jahrzehnten kulturelle Bedeutung prägt. Geschlecht und Energietechnologien bedingen sich gegenseitig.“ – CND
