#neoluddism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #neoluddism, aggregated by home.social.
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"Nitish Pahwa: What do you think is driving the surge of new interest in Cyberselfish?
Paulina Borsook: I always say, “I don’t know.” These kinds of reputational revivals, you hear them happening with novels or movies, but you don’t often hear it with nonfiction. I wondered if that’s because my book is not written journalistically. The facts are correct, but it was written in a literary and polemical way.
There was this guy, David Golumbia, who’s dead now, but he wrote Cyberlibertarianism a couple years ago. People told me he mentioned That Damned Book [Borsook’s nickname for Cyberselfish] in it, and that sparked some interest in academic circles. Then I found out that TDB was an underground thing people were talking about for years, and prices on used book platforms went way up from what they used to be. And I’d run into people who would tell me, “I read that in 2009.” How do I square that with how little attention was paid the first time?
TDB was well and widely reviewed at the time, but I think it didn’t register because the culture hadn’t caught up to it. It was this goofy, oddball thing. There really wasn’t a technology culture section in the bookstore. I was always going to bookstores and finding the book placed in the business section, next to some sort of Programming for Dummies volume."
https://slate.com/technology/2026/09/cyberselfish-come-back-paulina-borsook-silicon-valley.html
#TechnoLibertarianism #Neoluddites #Neoluddism #SiliconValley #CalifornianIdeology #BigTech
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"Nitish Pahwa: What do you think is driving the surge of new interest in Cyberselfish?
Paulina Borsook: I always say, “I don’t know.” These kinds of reputational revivals, you hear them happening with novels or movies, but you don’t often hear it with nonfiction. I wondered if that’s because my book is not written journalistically. The facts are correct, but it was written in a literary and polemical way.
There was this guy, David Golumbia, who’s dead now, but he wrote Cyberlibertarianism a couple years ago. People told me he mentioned That Damned Book [Borsook’s nickname for Cyberselfish] in it, and that sparked some interest in academic circles. Then I found out that TDB was an underground thing people were talking about for years, and prices on used book platforms went way up from what they used to be. And I’d run into people who would tell me, “I read that in 2009.” How do I square that with how little attention was paid the first time?
TDB was well and widely reviewed at the time, but I think it didn’t register because the culture hadn’t caught up to it. It was this goofy, oddball thing. There really wasn’t a technology culture section in the bookstore. I was always going to bookstores and finding the book placed in the business section, next to some sort of Programming for Dummies volume."
https://slate.com/technology/2026/09/cyberselfish-come-back-paulina-borsook-silicon-valley.html
#TechnoLibertarianism #Neoluddites #Neoluddism #SiliconValley #CalifornianIdeology #BigTech
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"Nitish Pahwa: What do you think is driving the surge of new interest in Cyberselfish?
Paulina Borsook: I always say, “I don’t know.” These kinds of reputational revivals, you hear them happening with novels or movies, but you don’t often hear it with nonfiction. I wondered if that’s because my book is not written journalistically. The facts are correct, but it was written in a literary and polemical way.
There was this guy, David Golumbia, who’s dead now, but he wrote Cyberlibertarianism a couple years ago. People told me he mentioned That Damned Book [Borsook’s nickname for Cyberselfish] in it, and that sparked some interest in academic circles. Then I found out that TDB was an underground thing people were talking about for years, and prices on used book platforms went way up from what they used to be. And I’d run into people who would tell me, “I read that in 2009.” How do I square that with how little attention was paid the first time?
TDB was well and widely reviewed at the time, but I think it didn’t register because the culture hadn’t caught up to it. It was this goofy, oddball thing. There really wasn’t a technology culture section in the bookstore. I was always going to bookstores and finding the book placed in the business section, next to some sort of Programming for Dummies volume."
https://slate.com/technology/2026/09/cyberselfish-come-back-paulina-borsook-silicon-valley.html
#TechnoLibertarianism #Neoluddites #Neoluddism #SiliconValley #CalifornianIdeology #BigTech
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"Nitish Pahwa: What do you think is driving the surge of new interest in Cyberselfish?
Paulina Borsook: I always say, “I don’t know.” These kinds of reputational revivals, you hear them happening with novels or movies, but you don’t often hear it with nonfiction. I wondered if that’s because my book is not written journalistically. The facts are correct, but it was written in a literary and polemical way.
There was this guy, David Golumbia, who’s dead now, but he wrote Cyberlibertarianism a couple years ago. People told me he mentioned That Damned Book [Borsook’s nickname for Cyberselfish] in it, and that sparked some interest in academic circles. Then I found out that TDB was an underground thing people were talking about for years, and prices on used book platforms went way up from what they used to be. And I’d run into people who would tell me, “I read that in 2009.” How do I square that with how little attention was paid the first time?
TDB was well and widely reviewed at the time, but I think it didn’t register because the culture hadn’t caught up to it. It was this goofy, oddball thing. There really wasn’t a technology culture section in the bookstore. I was always going to bookstores and finding the book placed in the business section, next to some sort of Programming for Dummies volume."
https://slate.com/technology/2026/09/cyberselfish-come-back-paulina-borsook-silicon-valley.html
#TechnoLibertarianism #Neoluddites #Neoluddism #SiliconValley #CalifornianIdeology #BigTech
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"Nitish Pahwa: What do you think is driving the surge of new interest in Cyberselfish?
Paulina Borsook: I always say, “I don’t know.” These kinds of reputational revivals, you hear them happening with novels or movies, but you don’t often hear it with nonfiction. I wondered if that’s because my book is not written journalistically. The facts are correct, but it was written in a literary and polemical way.
There was this guy, David Golumbia, who’s dead now, but he wrote Cyberlibertarianism a couple years ago. People told me he mentioned That Damned Book [Borsook’s nickname for Cyberselfish] in it, and that sparked some interest in academic circles. Then I found out that TDB was an underground thing people were talking about for years, and prices on used book platforms went way up from what they used to be. And I’d run into people who would tell me, “I read that in 2009.” How do I square that with how little attention was paid the first time?
TDB was well and widely reviewed at the time, but I think it didn’t register because the culture hadn’t caught up to it. It was this goofy, oddball thing. There really wasn’t a technology culture section in the bookstore. I was always going to bookstores and finding the book placed in the business section, next to some sort of Programming for Dummies volume."
https://slate.com/technology/2026/09/cyberselfish-come-back-paulina-borsook-silicon-valley.html
#TechnoLibertarianism #Neoluddites #Neoluddism #SiliconValley #CalifornianIdeology #BigTech
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Critical thinking has left the building. Is everyone in the U.S. going mad? It seems to me, judging by this whole hysteria anti-AI and pro-AI. I'm just tired of it. Just use the tools that you think work best for you but just don't be judgemental. Human output is also full of slop. Just because it was created by a human being, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be reviewed in the sense of improving it. The exact same thing is valid for any AI output!! Just don't use lame excuses to justify a reactionary and conservative position towards technology. Being anti-AI is not progressive nor emancipatory if you just avoid all the time getting your feet wet by using the tools and experimenting a lot. It just shows you lack the exact same critical thinking you accuse pro-AI people of lacking.
"Having heard an increasing number of anecdotal stories over the last year or so of people finding weird, wild and defiant ways to avoid using AI in their professional lives, tales I've seen told in fragments across social media and platforms like Linkedin, I decided to speak directly with as many workers as I could to hear their stories in full.
What I found particularly interesting was that while some employees are able to duck out from using the technology altogether, a surprising number of people without that luxury are still finding ways to minimise, misdirect or even sabotage their company's AI mandates by using the technology against itself.
Given everyone I spoke to was still employed at the place they're talking about, they've requested their names and employers be withheld. And while (since this is a video games website) there are some video game industry workers featured below, I also ended up speaking with many affected employees across a range of other industries, from utilities to finance to cloud hosting."
https://aftermath.site/ai-resistance-tips-workforce-llm-workers/
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Automation #Productivity #Neoluddites #ReactionaryThought #Conservatism #Neoluddism
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Critical thinking has left the building. Is everyone in the U.S. going mad? It seems to me, judging by this whole hysteria anti-AI and pro-AI. I'm just tired of it. Just use the tools that you think work best for you but just don't be judgemental. Human output is also full of slop. Just because it was created by a human being, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be reviewed in the sense of improving it. The exact same thing is valid for any AI output!! Just don't use lame excuses to justify a reactionary and conservative position towards technology. Being anti-AI is not progressive nor emancipatory if you just avoid all the time getting your feet wet by using the tools and experimenting a lot. It just shows you lack the exact same critical thinking you accuse pro-AI people of lacking.
"Having heard an increasing number of anecdotal stories over the last year or so of people finding weird, wild and defiant ways to avoid using AI in their professional lives, tales I've seen told in fragments across social media and platforms like Linkedin, I decided to speak directly with as many workers as I could to hear their stories in full.
What I found particularly interesting was that while some employees are able to duck out from using the technology altogether, a surprising number of people without that luxury are still finding ways to minimise, misdirect or even sabotage their company's AI mandates by using the technology against itself.
Given everyone I spoke to was still employed at the place they're talking about, they've requested their names and employers be withheld. And while (since this is a video games website) there are some video game industry workers featured below, I also ended up speaking with many affected employees across a range of other industries, from utilities to finance to cloud hosting."
https://aftermath.site/ai-resistance-tips-workforce-llm-workers/
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Automation #Productivity #Neoluddites #ReactionaryThought #Conservatism #Neoluddism
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Critical thinking has left the building. Is everyone in the U.S. going mad? It seems to me, judging by this whole hysteria anti-AI and pro-AI. I'm just tired of it. Just use the tools that you think work best for you but just don't be judgemental. Human output is also full of slop. Just because it was created by a human being, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be reviewed in the sense of improving it. The exact same thing is valid for any AI output!! Just don't use lame excuses to justify a reactionary and conservative position towards technology. Being anti-AI is not progressive nor emancipatory if you just avoid all the time getting your feet wet by using the tools and experimenting a lot. It just shows you lack the exact same critical thinking you accuse pro-AI people of lacking.
"Having heard an increasing number of anecdotal stories over the last year or so of people finding weird, wild and defiant ways to avoid using AI in their professional lives, tales I've seen told in fragments across social media and platforms like Linkedin, I decided to speak directly with as many workers as I could to hear their stories in full.
What I found particularly interesting was that while some employees are able to duck out from using the technology altogether, a surprising number of people without that luxury are still finding ways to minimise, misdirect or even sabotage their company's AI mandates by using the technology against itself.
Given everyone I spoke to was still employed at the place they're talking about, they've requested their names and employers be withheld. And while (since this is a video games website) there are some video game industry workers featured below, I also ended up speaking with many affected employees across a range of other industries, from utilities to finance to cloud hosting."
https://aftermath.site/ai-resistance-tips-workforce-llm-workers/
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Automation #Productivity #Neoluddites #ReactionaryThought #Conservatism #Neoluddism
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Critical thinking has left the building. Is everyone in the U.S. going mad? It seems to me, judging by this whole hysteria anti-AI and pro-AI. I'm just tired of it. Just use the tools that you think work best for you but just don't be judgemental. Human output is also full of slop. Just because it was created by a human being, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be reviewed in the sense of improving it. The exact same thing is valid for any AI output!! Just don't use lame excuses to justify a reactionary and conservative position towards technology. Being anti-AI is not progressive nor emancipatory if you just avoid all the time getting your feet wet by using the tools and experimenting a lot. It just shows you lack the exact same critical thinking you accuse pro-AI people of lacking.
"Having heard an increasing number of anecdotal stories over the last year or so of people finding weird, wild and defiant ways to avoid using AI in their professional lives, tales I've seen told in fragments across social media and platforms like Linkedin, I decided to speak directly with as many workers as I could to hear their stories in full.
What I found particularly interesting was that while some employees are able to duck out from using the technology altogether, a surprising number of people without that luxury are still finding ways to minimise, misdirect or even sabotage their company's AI mandates by using the technology against itself.
Given everyone I spoke to was still employed at the place they're talking about, they've requested their names and employers be withheld. And while (since this is a video games website) there are some video game industry workers featured below, I also ended up speaking with many affected employees across a range of other industries, from utilities to finance to cloud hosting."
https://aftermath.site/ai-resistance-tips-workforce-llm-workers/
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Automation #Productivity #Neoluddites #ReactionaryThought #Conservatism #Neoluddism
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Critical thinking has left the building. Is everyone in the U.S. going mad? It seems to me, judging by this whole hysteria anti-AI and pro-AI. I'm just tired of it. Just use the tools that you think work best for you but just don't be judgemental. Human output is also full of slop. Just because it was created by a human being, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be reviewed in the sense of improving it. The exact same thing is valid for any AI output!! Just don't use lame excuses to justify a reactionary and conservative position towards technology. Being anti-AI is not progressive nor emancipatory if you just avoid all the time getting your feet wet by using the tools and experimenting a lot. It just shows you lack the exact same critical thinking you accuse pro-AI people of lacking.
"Having heard an increasing number of anecdotal stories over the last year or so of people finding weird, wild and defiant ways to avoid using AI in their professional lives, tales I've seen told in fragments across social media and platforms like Linkedin, I decided to speak directly with as many workers as I could to hear their stories in full.
What I found particularly interesting was that while some employees are able to duck out from using the technology altogether, a surprising number of people without that luxury are still finding ways to minimise, misdirect or even sabotage their company's AI mandates by using the technology against itself.
Given everyone I spoke to was still employed at the place they're talking about, they've requested their names and employers be withheld. And while (since this is a video games website) there are some video game industry workers featured below, I also ended up speaking with many affected employees across a range of other industries, from utilities to finance to cloud hosting."
https://aftermath.site/ai-resistance-tips-workforce-llm-workers/
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Automation #Productivity #Neoluddites #ReactionaryThought #Conservatism #Neoluddism
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The Luddite Club, The Documentary:
A film teacher and her high school student take stock of a post-COVID landscape, where tech-addled teens are experiencing a public mental health crisis and New York City is suing Meta for fueling the flames. Amid the chaos are The New York Times-profiled Luddites, teens who are rejecting smartphones and social media in order to rediscover the value of IRL connections.
https://www.ludditeclubdoc.com #Luddite #neoLuddism -
The Luddite Club, The Documentary:
A film teacher and her high school student take stock of a post-COVID landscape, where tech-addled teens are experiencing a public mental health crisis and New York City is suing Meta for fueling the flames. Amid the chaos are The New York Times-profiled Luddites, teens who are rejecting smartphones and social media in order to rediscover the value of IRL connections.
https://www.ludditeclubdoc.com #Luddite #neoLuddism -
The Luddite Club, The Documentary:
A film teacher and her high school student take stock of a post-COVID landscape, where tech-addled teens are experiencing a public mental health crisis and New York City is suing Meta for fueling the flames. Amid the chaos are The New York Times-profiled Luddites, teens who are rejecting smartphones and social media in order to rediscover the value of IRL connections.
https://www.ludditeclubdoc.com #Luddite #neoLuddism -
The Luddite Club, The Documentary:
A film teacher and her high school student take stock of a post-COVID landscape, where tech-addled teens are experiencing a public mental health crisis and New York City is suing Meta for fueling the flames. Amid the chaos are The New York Times-profiled Luddites, teens who are rejecting smartphones and social media in order to rediscover the value of IRL connections.
https://www.ludditeclubdoc.com #Luddite #neoLuddism -
As AI gets more life-like, a new #Luddite movement is taking root https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/08/business/ai-luddite-movement-screens
#neoLuddism -
As AI gets more life-like, a new #Luddite movement is taking root https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/08/business/ai-luddite-movement-screens
#neoLuddism -
As AI gets more life-like, a new #Luddite movement is taking root https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/08/business/ai-luddite-movement-screens
#neoLuddism -
As AI gets more life-like, a new #Luddite movement is taking root https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/08/business/ai-luddite-movement-screens
#neoLuddism -
As AI gets more life-like, a new #Luddite movement is taking root https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/08/business/ai-luddite-movement-screens
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"Around the world, governments are going hard to present themselves as AI leaders willing to do whatever the industry wants to attract investment.
Last month, I spoke to Will Dunn on Tech Won’t Save Us about how this is playing out in the UK, where the government has gone so far as to use chatbots to drafts laws. France has gone all in too, presenting itself as the third pole of AI leadership between the United States and China. Now, my own country is making its bid to join the fray.
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney rolled out his government’s AI strategy earlier this month, annoyingly titled “AI for All.” But in it, I saw something novel: not just the aggressive pursuit of AI dollars by giving industry what it wants, but also reframing opposition to AI and hyperscale data centers as the product of a lack of AI “literacy.” If only the Canadian public was taught to use AI tools, the strategy suggests, they’ll come around to backing them.
As you won’t be surprised to hear, I think that’s a poor judgement that misunderstands why people have turned against AI so aggressively. I wrote up my thoughts recently for The Tyee, a fantastic progressive publication based in British Columbia. They’ve been kind enough to let me share them with Disconnect subscribers."
https://disconnect.blog/ai-opposition-isnt-the-product-of-a-lack-of-literacy/
#Canada #AI #GenerativeAI #BigTech #AntiAI #Neoluddism #Neoluddites
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"Around the world, governments are going hard to present themselves as AI leaders willing to do whatever the industry wants to attract investment.
Last month, I spoke to Will Dunn on Tech Won’t Save Us about how this is playing out in the UK, where the government has gone so far as to use chatbots to drafts laws. France has gone all in too, presenting itself as the third pole of AI leadership between the United States and China. Now, my own country is making its bid to join the fray.
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney rolled out his government’s AI strategy earlier this month, annoyingly titled “AI for All.” But in it, I saw something novel: not just the aggressive pursuit of AI dollars by giving industry what it wants, but also reframing opposition to AI and hyperscale data centers as the product of a lack of AI “literacy.” If only the Canadian public was taught to use AI tools, the strategy suggests, they’ll come around to backing them.
As you won’t be surprised to hear, I think that’s a poor judgement that misunderstands why people have turned against AI so aggressively. I wrote up my thoughts recently for The Tyee, a fantastic progressive publication based in British Columbia. They’ve been kind enough to let me share them with Disconnect subscribers."
https://disconnect.blog/ai-opposition-isnt-the-product-of-a-lack-of-literacy/
#Canada #AI #GenerativeAI #BigTech #AntiAI #Neoluddism #Neoluddites
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"Around the world, governments are going hard to present themselves as AI leaders willing to do whatever the industry wants to attract investment.
Last month, I spoke to Will Dunn on Tech Won’t Save Us about how this is playing out in the UK, where the government has gone so far as to use chatbots to drafts laws. France has gone all in too, presenting itself as the third pole of AI leadership between the United States and China. Now, my own country is making its bid to join the fray.
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney rolled out his government’s AI strategy earlier this month, annoyingly titled “AI for All.” But in it, I saw something novel: not just the aggressive pursuit of AI dollars by giving industry what it wants, but also reframing opposition to AI and hyperscale data centers as the product of a lack of AI “literacy.” If only the Canadian public was taught to use AI tools, the strategy suggests, they’ll come around to backing them.
As you won’t be surprised to hear, I think that’s a poor judgement that misunderstands why people have turned against AI so aggressively. I wrote up my thoughts recently for The Tyee, a fantastic progressive publication based in British Columbia. They’ve been kind enough to let me share them with Disconnect subscribers."
https://disconnect.blog/ai-opposition-isnt-the-product-of-a-lack-of-literacy/
#Canada #AI #GenerativeAI #BigTech #AntiAI #Neoluddism #Neoluddites
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"Around the world, governments are going hard to present themselves as AI leaders willing to do whatever the industry wants to attract investment.
Last month, I spoke to Will Dunn on Tech Won’t Save Us about how this is playing out in the UK, where the government has gone so far as to use chatbots to drafts laws. France has gone all in too, presenting itself as the third pole of AI leadership between the United States and China. Now, my own country is making its bid to join the fray.
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney rolled out his government’s AI strategy earlier this month, annoyingly titled “AI for All.” But in it, I saw something novel: not just the aggressive pursuit of AI dollars by giving industry what it wants, but also reframing opposition to AI and hyperscale data centers as the product of a lack of AI “literacy.” If only the Canadian public was taught to use AI tools, the strategy suggests, they’ll come around to backing them.
As you won’t be surprised to hear, I think that’s a poor judgement that misunderstands why people have turned against AI so aggressively. I wrote up my thoughts recently for The Tyee, a fantastic progressive publication based in British Columbia. They’ve been kind enough to let me share them with Disconnect subscribers."
https://disconnect.blog/ai-opposition-isnt-the-product-of-a-lack-of-literacy/
#Canada #AI #GenerativeAI #BigTech #AntiAI #Neoluddism #Neoluddites
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"Around the world, governments are going hard to present themselves as AI leaders willing to do whatever the industry wants to attract investment.
Last month, I spoke to Will Dunn on Tech Won’t Save Us about how this is playing out in the UK, where the government has gone so far as to use chatbots to drafts laws. France has gone all in too, presenting itself as the third pole of AI leadership between the United States and China. Now, my own country is making its bid to join the fray.
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney rolled out his government’s AI strategy earlier this month, annoyingly titled “AI for All.” But in it, I saw something novel: not just the aggressive pursuit of AI dollars by giving industry what it wants, but also reframing opposition to AI and hyperscale data centers as the product of a lack of AI “literacy.” If only the Canadian public was taught to use AI tools, the strategy suggests, they’ll come around to backing them.
As you won’t be surprised to hear, I think that’s a poor judgement that misunderstands why people have turned against AI so aggressively. I wrote up my thoughts recently for The Tyee, a fantastic progressive publication based in British Columbia. They’ve been kind enough to let me share them with Disconnect subscribers."
https://disconnect.blog/ai-opposition-isnt-the-product-of-a-lack-of-literacy/
#Canada #AI #GenerativeAI #BigTech #AntiAI #Neoluddism #Neoluddites
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RE: https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/
A powerful essay, regardless of how you personally might feel about the #AI, #techfascism or #neoLuddism.
I have multiple points to debate there, but that is exactly what qualifies it as a good read in my book.
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RE: https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/
A powerful essay, regardless of how you personally might feel about the #AI, #techfascism or #neoLuddism.
I have multiple points to debate there, but that is exactly what qualifies it as a good read in my book.
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RE: https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/
A powerful essay, regardless of how you personally might feel about the #AI, #techfascism or #neoLuddism.
I have multiple points to debate there, but that is exactly what qualifies it as a good read in my book.
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RE: https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/
A powerful essay, regardless of how you personally might feel about the #AI, #techfascism or #neoLuddism.
I have multiple points to debate there, but that is exactly what qualifies it as a good read in my book.
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RE: https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/
A powerful essay, regardless of how you personally might feel about the #AI, #techfascism or #neoLuddism.
I have multiple points to debate there, but that is exactly what qualifies it as a good read in my book.
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"AI models have one undeniable virtue: the increase in speed and efficiency with which they can carry out tasks that were once the province of human beings. Language models can produce functional text for a wide range of contexts, while image generation models are giving us the capability to render into existence whatever image or video takes our fancy. This is widely taken as clear evidence of the benefits of AI. For Mumford, this type of thinking is precisely the problem. The myth of the machine is dehumanizing because it subordinates human values to machine values: speed and efficiency.
The most striking evidence of the myth’s cultural pervasiveness is that many avid accelerationists do not deny that AI could mean the end of humanity. They merely differ from the doomers in believing that this risk is necessary—even desirable—to achieve the spectacular increases in efficiency and productivity promised by AGI. Mumford foresaw this extreme endpoint. “The myth of the machine,” he wrote, “the basic religion of our present culture, has so captured the modern mind that no human sacrifice seems too great provided it is offered up to the insolent Marduks and Molochs of science and technology.”
Those branded as skeptics or doomers also still accept the premises of the myth of the machine. The stated aim of many organizations concerned with avoiding the worst AI outcomes is that we should “realize the benefits while mitigating the risks” of the technology. Mumford would argue the first half of this statement concedes too much, accepting the basic premise of the myth of the machine while presenting the task as removing the obstacles to realize its benefits. Many skeptics also share a basic misanthropic premise of machine superiority, focusing as they do on the biased, irrational, and flawed nature of human beings that needs machinic augmentation."
https://www.compactmag.com/article/ai-and-the-myth-of-the-machine/
#AI #Neoluddism #AIBoosters #AIHype #AIDoomers #GenerativeAI #Mumford #STS #MediaEcology
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"AI models have one undeniable virtue: the increase in speed and efficiency with which they can carry out tasks that were once the province of human beings. Language models can produce functional text for a wide range of contexts, while image generation models are giving us the capability to render into existence whatever image or video takes our fancy. This is widely taken as clear evidence of the benefits of AI. For Mumford, this type of thinking is precisely the problem. The myth of the machine is dehumanizing because it subordinates human values to machine values: speed and efficiency.
The most striking evidence of the myth’s cultural pervasiveness is that many avid accelerationists do not deny that AI could mean the end of humanity. They merely differ from the doomers in believing that this risk is necessary—even desirable—to achieve the spectacular increases in efficiency and productivity promised by AGI. Mumford foresaw this extreme endpoint. “The myth of the machine,” he wrote, “the basic religion of our present culture, has so captured the modern mind that no human sacrifice seems too great provided it is offered up to the insolent Marduks and Molochs of science and technology.”
Those branded as skeptics or doomers also still accept the premises of the myth of the machine. The stated aim of many organizations concerned with avoiding the worst AI outcomes is that we should “realize the benefits while mitigating the risks” of the technology. Mumford would argue the first half of this statement concedes too much, accepting the basic premise of the myth of the machine while presenting the task as removing the obstacles to realize its benefits. Many skeptics also share a basic misanthropic premise of machine superiority, focusing as they do on the biased, irrational, and flawed nature of human beings that needs machinic augmentation."
https://www.compactmag.com/article/ai-and-the-myth-of-the-machine/
#AI #Neoluddism #AIBoosters #AIHype #AIDoomers #GenerativeAI #Mumford #STS #MediaEcology
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"AI models have one undeniable virtue: the increase in speed and efficiency with which they can carry out tasks that were once the province of human beings. Language models can produce functional text for a wide range of contexts, while image generation models are giving us the capability to render into existence whatever image or video takes our fancy. This is widely taken as clear evidence of the benefits of AI. For Mumford, this type of thinking is precisely the problem. The myth of the machine is dehumanizing because it subordinates human values to machine values: speed and efficiency.
The most striking evidence of the myth’s cultural pervasiveness is that many avid accelerationists do not deny that AI could mean the end of humanity. They merely differ from the doomers in believing that this risk is necessary—even desirable—to achieve the spectacular increases in efficiency and productivity promised by AGI. Mumford foresaw this extreme endpoint. “The myth of the machine,” he wrote, “the basic religion of our present culture, has so captured the modern mind that no human sacrifice seems too great provided it is offered up to the insolent Marduks and Molochs of science and technology.”
Those branded as skeptics or doomers also still accept the premises of the myth of the machine. The stated aim of many organizations concerned with avoiding the worst AI outcomes is that we should “realize the benefits while mitigating the risks” of the technology. Mumford would argue the first half of this statement concedes too much, accepting the basic premise of the myth of the machine while presenting the task as removing the obstacles to realize its benefits. Many skeptics also share a basic misanthropic premise of machine superiority, focusing as they do on the biased, irrational, and flawed nature of human beings that needs machinic augmentation."
https://www.compactmag.com/article/ai-and-the-myth-of-the-machine/
#AI #Neoluddism #AIBoosters #AIHype #AIDoomers #GenerativeAI #Mumford #STS #MediaEcology
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"AI models have one undeniable virtue: the increase in speed and efficiency with which they can carry out tasks that were once the province of human beings. Language models can produce functional text for a wide range of contexts, while image generation models are giving us the capability to render into existence whatever image or video takes our fancy. This is widely taken as clear evidence of the benefits of AI. For Mumford, this type of thinking is precisely the problem. The myth of the machine is dehumanizing because it subordinates human values to machine values: speed and efficiency.
The most striking evidence of the myth’s cultural pervasiveness is that many avid accelerationists do not deny that AI could mean the end of humanity. They merely differ from the doomers in believing that this risk is necessary—even desirable—to achieve the spectacular increases in efficiency and productivity promised by AGI. Mumford foresaw this extreme endpoint. “The myth of the machine,” he wrote, “the basic religion of our present culture, has so captured the modern mind that no human sacrifice seems too great provided it is offered up to the insolent Marduks and Molochs of science and technology.”
Those branded as skeptics or doomers also still accept the premises of the myth of the machine. The stated aim of many organizations concerned with avoiding the worst AI outcomes is that we should “realize the benefits while mitigating the risks” of the technology. Mumford would argue the first half of this statement concedes too much, accepting the basic premise of the myth of the machine while presenting the task as removing the obstacles to realize its benefits. Many skeptics also share a basic misanthropic premise of machine superiority, focusing as they do on the biased, irrational, and flawed nature of human beings that needs machinic augmentation."
https://www.compactmag.com/article/ai-and-the-myth-of-the-machine/
#AI #Neoluddism #AIBoosters #AIHype #AIDoomers #GenerativeAI #Mumford #STS #MediaEcology
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"AI models have one undeniable virtue: the increase in speed and efficiency with which they can carry out tasks that were once the province of human beings. Language models can produce functional text for a wide range of contexts, while image generation models are giving us the capability to render into existence whatever image or video takes our fancy. This is widely taken as clear evidence of the benefits of AI. For Mumford, this type of thinking is precisely the problem. The myth of the machine is dehumanizing because it subordinates human values to machine values: speed and efficiency.
The most striking evidence of the myth’s cultural pervasiveness is that many avid accelerationists do not deny that AI could mean the end of humanity. They merely differ from the doomers in believing that this risk is necessary—even desirable—to achieve the spectacular increases in efficiency and productivity promised by AGI. Mumford foresaw this extreme endpoint. “The myth of the machine,” he wrote, “the basic religion of our present culture, has so captured the modern mind that no human sacrifice seems too great provided it is offered up to the insolent Marduks and Molochs of science and technology.”
Those branded as skeptics or doomers also still accept the premises of the myth of the machine. The stated aim of many organizations concerned with avoiding the worst AI outcomes is that we should “realize the benefits while mitigating the risks” of the technology. Mumford would argue the first half of this statement concedes too much, accepting the basic premise of the myth of the machine while presenting the task as removing the obstacles to realize its benefits. Many skeptics also share a basic misanthropic premise of machine superiority, focusing as they do on the biased, irrational, and flawed nature of human beings that needs machinic augmentation."
https://www.compactmag.com/article/ai-and-the-myth-of-the-machine/
#AI #Neoluddism #AIBoosters #AIHype #AIDoomers #GenerativeAI #Mumford #STS #MediaEcology
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Looks interesting. A week-long session in Latvia.
Circle 9: Degrowth and Exnovation – NORDIC SUMMER UNIVERSITY
https://www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-degrowth-and-exnovation/ -
Looks interesting. A week-long session in Latvia.
Circle 9: Degrowth and Exnovation – NORDIC SUMMER UNIVERSITY
https://www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-degrowth-and-exnovation/ -
Looks interesting. A week-long session in Latvia.
Circle 9: Degrowth and Exnovation – NORDIC SUMMER UNIVERSITY
https://www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-degrowth-and-exnovation/ -
Looks interesting. A week-long session in Latvia.
Circle 9: Degrowth and Exnovation – NORDIC SUMMER UNIVERSITY
https://www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-degrowth-and-exnovation/ -
Looks interesting. A week-long session in Latvia.
Circle 9: Degrowth and Exnovation – NORDIC SUMMER UNIVERSITY
https://www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-degrowth-and-exnovation/ -
Has anyone noticed that image captchas will often accept incorrect answers? I've been trying to do my bit for the Resistance by just clicking randomly on them until I get bored, whereas previously I used to sweat about whether the one pixel of traffic light in a particular square was counted or not. I guess the algorithm decides a right answer is one that falls within a certain standard deviation from the mean results.
TL;DR you can be super sloppy with those annoying bois.
#ShowerThoughts #MyHobby #neoLuddism -
Has anyone noticed that image captchas will often accept incorrect answers? I've been trying to do my bit for the Resistance by just clicking randomly on them until I get bored, whereas previously I used to sweat about whether the one pixel of traffic light in a particular square was counted or not. I guess the algorithm decides a right answer is one that falls within a certain standard deviation from the mean results.
TL;DR you can be super sloppy with those annoying bois.
#ShowerThoughts #MyHobby #neoLuddism -
Has anyone noticed that image captchas will often accept incorrect answers? I've been trying to do my bit for the Resistance by just clicking randomly on them until I get bored, whereas previously I used to sweat about whether the one pixel of traffic light in a particular square was counted or not. I guess the algorithm decides a right answer is one that falls within a certain standard deviation from the mean results.
TL;DR you can be super sloppy with those annoying bois.
#ShowerThoughts #MyHobby #neoLuddism -
Has anyone noticed that image captchas will often accept incorrect answers? I've been trying to do my bit for the Resistance by just clicking randomly on them until I get bored, whereas previously I used to sweat about whether the one pixel of traffic light in a particular square was counted or not. I guess the algorithm decides a right answer is one that falls within a certain standard deviation from the mean results.
TL;DR you can be super sloppy with those annoying bois.
#ShowerThoughts #MyHobby #neoLuddism -
Has anyone noticed that image captchas will often accept incorrect answers? I've been trying to do my bit for the Resistance by just clicking randomly on them until I get bored, whereas previously I used to sweat about whether the one pixel of traffic light in a particular square was counted or not. I guess the algorithm decides a right answer is one that falls within a certain standard deviation from the mean results.
TL;DR you can be super sloppy with those annoying bois.
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RE: https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/116115090523828826
Acrobat reader offered an "AI summary" of an etymological dictionary. It made it crash.
Ah, that gives me ideas 😉
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RE: https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/116115090523828826
Acrobat reader offered an "AI summary" of an etymological dictionary. It made it crash.
Ah, that gives me ideas 😉
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RE: https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/116115090523828826
Acrobat reader offered an "AI summary" of an etymological dictionary. It made it crash.
Ah, that gives me ideas 😉
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RE: https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/116115090523828826
Acrobat reader offered an "AI summary" of an etymological dictionary. It made it crash.
Ah, that gives me ideas 😉
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RE: https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/116115090523828826
Acrobat reader offered an "AI summary" of an etymological dictionary. It made it crash.
Ah, that gives me ideas 😉
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"More than two-thirds of residents agreed in a 2024 poll that the tech companies have partially or completely misplaced their moral compass. And that was before so many in tech embraced the Trump administration.
Some of those who believe tech lost its way are finding explanations in a book published a quarter century ago.
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish” saw the seeds of disaster in the late-1990s dot-com boom, which, she argued, transformed a community that was previously sober, civic-minded and egalitarian into something toxic.
Silicon Valley, Ms. Borsook wrote, hated governments, rules and regulations. It believed if you were rich, you were smart. It thought people could be, and indeed should be, programmed just like a computer. “Techno-libertarianism,” as she labeled it, had no time for the messy realities of being human.
At the time, Silicon Valley was just a bunch of young people boasting and hyping. But Ms. Borsook predicted that when the tech world had amassed sufficient money and power, it would start imposing its beliefs on everyone outside the valley.
“If empathy has now become a distasteful personal failing; if surveillance capitalism has become the default shrugged-off business practice; if the environmental impacts of A.I. are waved away: then we are alas living in the tech-driven culture I saw headed our way 30 years ago,” Ms. Borsook said in an interview. “It’s terrible that I was right.”"
#SiliconValley #TechnoLibertarianism #CalifornianIdeology #Neoluddism
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"More than two-thirds of residents agreed in a 2024 poll that the tech companies have partially or completely misplaced their moral compass. And that was before so many in tech embraced the Trump administration.
Some of those who believe tech lost its way are finding explanations in a book published a quarter century ago.
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish” saw the seeds of disaster in the late-1990s dot-com boom, which, she argued, transformed a community that was previously sober, civic-minded and egalitarian into something toxic.
Silicon Valley, Ms. Borsook wrote, hated governments, rules and regulations. It believed if you were rich, you were smart. It thought people could be, and indeed should be, programmed just like a computer. “Techno-libertarianism,” as she labeled it, had no time for the messy realities of being human.
At the time, Silicon Valley was just a bunch of young people boasting and hyping. But Ms. Borsook predicted that when the tech world had amassed sufficient money and power, it would start imposing its beliefs on everyone outside the valley.
“If empathy has now become a distasteful personal failing; if surveillance capitalism has become the default shrugged-off business practice; if the environmental impacts of A.I. are waved away: then we are alas living in the tech-driven culture I saw headed our way 30 years ago,” Ms. Borsook said in an interview. “It’s terrible that I was right.”"
#SiliconValley #TechnoLibertarianism #CalifornianIdeology #Neoluddism
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"More than two-thirds of residents agreed in a 2024 poll that the tech companies have partially or completely misplaced their moral compass. And that was before so many in tech embraced the Trump administration.
Some of those who believe tech lost its way are finding explanations in a book published a quarter century ago.
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish” saw the seeds of disaster in the late-1990s dot-com boom, which, she argued, transformed a community that was previously sober, civic-minded and egalitarian into something toxic.
Silicon Valley, Ms. Borsook wrote, hated governments, rules and regulations. It believed if you were rich, you were smart. It thought people could be, and indeed should be, programmed just like a computer. “Techno-libertarianism,” as she labeled it, had no time for the messy realities of being human.
At the time, Silicon Valley was just a bunch of young people boasting and hyping. But Ms. Borsook predicted that when the tech world had amassed sufficient money and power, it would start imposing its beliefs on everyone outside the valley.
“If empathy has now become a distasteful personal failing; if surveillance capitalism has become the default shrugged-off business practice; if the environmental impacts of A.I. are waved away: then we are alas living in the tech-driven culture I saw headed our way 30 years ago,” Ms. Borsook said in an interview. “It’s terrible that I was right.”"
#SiliconValley #TechnoLibertarianism #CalifornianIdeology #Neoluddism
