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"the high-tech future will have to be built in a way that blends church, state and market, to the benefit of those most able to seize public resources and turn them to private profit.

...that fusion is the essence of the Texan Ideology"

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The Texan Ideology | Fred Turner
The Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
uppy-hacker.bsky.social
How Networked Neighbourhoods can make innovation work for everyone

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Inclusive Innovation: From Hype to Hope Green Paper — Careful Industries
To be effective, innovation must work for everyone. Yet, more than three decades into the digital revolution, the opportunities and benefits that technologies bring are still not equitably shared. Thi...
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February 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Ah, I should know better, but accidental lunchtime newsletter from me arriving in inboxes right now. On why the words used to describe technologies are more important than they might seem. buttondown.com/justenoughin...
Words Matter
The words used to describe digital technologies might not seem important, but they matter very much. On Pat McFadden's recent speech and the general trend towards technology heroism.
buttondown.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
This is *really* interesting for anyone following the energy demand of AI - the point about localised impact rather than global particularly so. (Also, side point, I wonder what this says about distribution of data centres and wondering what the implications of that might be.)
hetanshah.bsky.social Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Nov 18
I have been waiting for @hannahritchie.bsky.social to run the numbers on this question:

What’s the impact of artificial intelligence on energy demand?

www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ai-energy-...
IEA projections for slower and faster growth of data centre use shown as relatively small in context of world energy uses
November 18, 2024 at 8:10 AM
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rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Ah yes! Have been working with others to get the field of "community tech" of the ground in the UK as an alt www.promisingtrouble.net/blog/innovat...
What good is innovation if it doesn’t work for everyone?  — Promising Trouble
Towards community-driven technologies and inclusive growth. An open invitation to a thinking party.
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November 16, 2024 at 8:21 AM
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merbroussard.bsky.social
I made a starter pack for public interest technology, critical data studies, and related fields. LMK who else I should add, please. #PublicInterestTech #PublicInterestTechnology #DataforSocialGood go.bsky.app/He8HTaC
November 10, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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ashleyshoo.bsky.social
If you are invested in #PhilTech and would like to be added to this list, please chat me and give me your handle + the handle of another person from an underrepresented group in our field or adjacent field who should also be on this list. Thanks!

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November 16, 2024 at 2:12 PM
uppy-hacker.bsky.social
"the only way to store data long term, like proper long term, is in intergenerational relationships, where data is stored in narratives, intergenerational narratives. That can last for forty, fifty, sixty thousand years."

- Tyson Yunkaporta

emergencemagazine.org/interview/de...
Deep Time Diligence – with Tyson Yunkaporta
Aboriginal scholar and author Tyson Yunkaporta illustrates how deep time thinking, born of an intimate relationship between a place and its community, can radically reshape our relationship to the cos...
emergencemagazine.org
November 16, 2024 at 1:01 AM
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rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Newsletter from me on the democratic implications of Labour's desperation for Big Tech investment, the chilling effects of message discipline, and why the UK needs a progressive tech movement (clue: it's to balance out the fascists)
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November 14, 2024 Let's make technology work for 8 billion people not 8 billionaires The case for progressive tech policy in the UK If technologies are going to help us shape our futures, more of us need to be a part of creating and steering them. A more diverse technology landscape will increase our democratic, economic and social resilience – and that’s far too important to leave up to a handful of billionaires. Let’s build it together. And while Lisa Nandy has warmly welcomed civil society into DCMS, Peter Kyle has taken the new economic focus of DSIT to heart and turned towards business to shape the brief – so much so that The Times has reported he has promoted the very biggest of the tech companies to nation status: “I’m probably the first secretary of state that is dealing with companies which are outspending our entire British state when it comes to investment in innovation. So let’s just act with a bit of sense of humility. We are having to apply a sense of statecraft to working with companies that we’ve in the past reserved for dealing with other states.” It’s fairly shocking Kyle said this out loud to a national newspaper.
November 14, 2024 at 8:05 AM