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“It has long been clear to researchers that #socialmedia #platforms don’t simply reflect existing preferences. They actively generate them.” - #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by #BenTarnoff and #QuinnSlobodian

I’m reading Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by #QuinnSlobodian and #BenTarnoff.
#books #BookSky

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Part 2 of Long Reads' discussion with #BenTarnoff and #QuinnSlobodian, authors of #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/long-reads-trillion-dollar-baby-w-quinn-slobodian-and/id791564318?i=1000775222782

for Part 1 v. https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/long-reads-trillion-dollar-baby-w-quinn-slobodian-and/id791564318?i=1000773249464

#Musk #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #techCriticism #techOligarchs #SiliconValleyRight #books @bookstodon

' #Musk’s fixation on what he calls the “woke mind virus” suggests both an understanding of humans as machines and an obsession with the threat of left-wing contagion: a conviction that people can be hacked like software and that progressive ideas—cultural Marxism, gender ideology, and so forth—act on the system as a kind of intellectual malware.'

Mark O'Connell reviews #BenTarnoff's & #QuinnSlobodian's #Muskism

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/07/23/space-oddity-muskism-slobodian-tarnoff/
https://archive.ph/STOGJ
#tech #books @bookstodon

"While #Musk was looking to the stars, the people of Belfast were still reeling from several days of racist violence. The Belfast pogrom drew strength from the #farRight ecosystem that Musk has nurtured with the money from #SpaceX, #Tesla and other companies."

Long Reads talks w/ #BenTarnoff and #QuinnSlobodian, authors of #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Pt 1 of 2
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/long-reads-trillion-dollar-baby-w-quinn-slobodian-and/id791564318?i=1000773249464

#ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #techCriticism #techOligarchs #SiliconValleyRight #books @bookstodon

"To build a better internet, we need to change how its is owned and organized. What is at stake is nothing less than the possibility of democracy - a possibility that an internet organizes by the profit motive precludes."

#BenTarnoff, Internet for the People, 2022

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2674-internet-for-the-people

Quoted by #NaomiKlein in Doppelganger, 2023

(8/8)

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #QuinnSlobodian & #BenTarnoff to talk about their book #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.

'We see a mind that is profoundly troubled by any contagion spreading into seemingly closed systems—it can take the form of racial others, transpeople, “woke” populations, or most generally and dismissively, “Non-Player-Characters.” '

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19188391-muskism-its-roots-nature-and-how-to-fight-it-a-conversation-with-quinn-slobodian-and-ben-tarnoff

#Musk #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs #books @bookstodon

Doug Henwood welcomes #QuinnSlobodian and #BenTarnoff, authors of #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, to discuss "Elon’s world and what he wants to do to ours."

https://kpfa.org/episode/behind-the-news-april-23-2026/
#Musk #ElonMusk #AI #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techOligarchs #techFutures #Tesla #Neuralink #books @bookstodon

"On the operating system of the 21st century.

Historian #QuinnSlobodian and tech writer #BenTarnoff talk to Alex Hochuli and Alex Gourevitch about their new book, "#Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed", and why we should ask "what is #Musk a symptom of?"

Who is the real Musk, that of vehicles, energy, infrastructure, or that of the post-industrial stuff of social media, finance, AI?"

https://pca.st/episode/e84d38e5-eb3e-48a8-97b4-195c24afce3c

#BenTarnoff’s review of #WalterIsaacson’s #ElonMusk follows the advice about writing from Aristotle that he mentions within: the last sentence is predictable yet surprising. And sooo sooo good. Bravo.

No gift links, unfortunately.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/01/18/ultra-hardcore-elon-musk-walter-isaacson/

unhappy internet at the centenary of the Frankfurt School, the year of Musk
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/12-oct-23-moira-weigel-elon-musks-unhappy-internet

#OrdinaryUnhappiness #Parapraxis #ParapraxisMagazine #MoiraWeigel #BenTarnoff #publicInternet #twitter #ElonMusk

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