#teamhuman — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #teamhuman, aggregated by home.social.
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"Also, doing neighborhood work. Where we go into each community and help them map out their communication channels.
A lot of neighborhoods already have a WhatSapp group, or a FB group, or a text chain. Some of them are completely dark, so we help them set that up. The ones that are already established ... if anyone's getting left out, we make sure that they're included in one of these communication hubs."
#CharlotteBinns, 2026
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Douglas @rushkoff.com says it all, and it is #CollectiveShamanism. Let's do it:
"Those of us who've had the privilege of escaping that virtual reality for moments at a time, for moments long enough to navigate soulfully and somatically rather than selfishly or strategically, yes, we ought to do it because it's not even a personal activity. What you quickly realize is that we humans and other life forms are navigating this wave collectively. How well we do is dependent on how many of us can retrieve these more essential sensibilities, the ratio of free living people to captive or unconscious ones. We don't have to rely solely on propaganda to convince people to make appropriate choices. Not when we have effective memes. When we act with compassion and resonance in appreciative surrender to the way things are trying to unfold, we model something else, a #collectiveshamanism, a shared awe, a glimpse of what it feels like to live on #TeamHuman." #DouglasRushkoff
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Really enjoyed this monologue by @Rushkoff (sadly he's no longer posting on Mastodon) during today's dog walk.
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/345-cracks-in-the-pavement
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thanks to @librecomms for the hours of investigative research 😎 https://share.mayfirst.org/s/f2T48fmPfD7XmG9
#teamhuman #aifail #aislop #llm #aiResearch -
"If explaining the state of the world makes you feel like a conspiracy theorist, you aren't alone."
Douglas @Rushkoff, 2026
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/348-youre-not-crazy-reality-has-grown-absurd
Phew. I'd started to think it was just me. This also reminds me of @pluralistic's piece about how the swivel-eyed loons have a point;
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(* that's an em-dash, proudly reclaimed for #TeamHuman.)
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Douglas @Rushkoff speculates about a process where the wealthy sandbox themselves, employing Trained #MOLE workers, and pay them in crypto datacentre vouchers that can be redeemed for compute, memory, storage, and so on. The end of capitalism as the Rapture of the Nerds;
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/342-the-joy-of-being-worthless-except-to-each-other
Intriguing, but it reminds me of the IR realist friend who asked me "how many armoured divisions does BitCoin have?".
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I note that this interview is from Oct, so maybe @pluralistic has modified his view on this since then but ...
One of the few things I really dislike among Cory's regular talking points is the misrepresentation of Shoshana Zuboff and the makers of The Social Dilemma, as if they ascribe to DataFarmers the invention of a "mind control ray";
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/339-cory-doctorow-enshittification-is-not-inevitable
Some credulous, Kara Swisher style faux-critics may have made this claim, Zuboff and TSD didn't.
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"... if you're aiming all your energy toward bitterness, and jealously, and I want to take people down, what does that lead to?"
#ArdenLeigh, 2025
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/343-arden-leigh-chasing-the-hungry-ghosts
That's an insightful question.
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"... if you're aiming all your energy toward bitterness, and jealously, and I want to take people down, what does that lead to?"
#ArdenLeigh, 2025
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/343-arden-leigh-chasing-the-hungry-ghosts
That's an insightful question.
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"... if you're aiming all your energy toward bitterness, and jealously, and I want to take people down, what does that lead to?"
#ArdenLeigh, 2025
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/343-arden-leigh-chasing-the-hungry-ghosts
That's an insightful question.
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"... if you're aiming all your energy toward bitterness, and jealously, and I want to take people down, what does that lead to?"
#ArdenLeigh, 2025
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/343-arden-leigh-chasing-the-hungry-ghosts
That's an insightful question.
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Tech billionaires are *intentionally* dismantling our civilization, and @Rushkoff tells us why:
These people are stupid, powerful, and dangerous. But they are very few. Easy to deal with if #TeamHuman would only stick together, and not let them divide us ...
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Desde una perspectiva filosófica y humanista, Hugo Chávez abordará los temas del creciente tecnofeudalismo que vivimos en línea, así como su relación a las "residualidades" de nuestra civilización, y las maneras en que podemos desarrollarnos con estas premisas en el futuro. #RHEDcon #tecnofeudalismo #teamhuman
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"... I keep coming back to this feeling that we're existing on this very thin membrane over ... just an ocean of tears. And, I've got more courage to go there and touch it, but it's ... there's so much grief!"
#DouglasRushkoff (@Rushkoff), 2025
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"By leaving politics out [of the psychedelics movement] we just got co-opted by the worst of the worst. Same with the net, it's like we followed John Barlow; 'governments stay away, we don't need you', and it's like 'oh no, the corporations took over'."
#DouglasRushkoff, 2025
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/331-liana-gillooly
Barlow was responding to the kind of wrongheaded attempts at net regulation we've seen so many times recently; link taxes, youth bans, etc.
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sanity lies in paying attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVcHsomf5DE
#HollyExley #artMaking #MakeArt #hope #courage #sanity #teamHuman
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sanity lies in paying attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVcHsomf5DE
#HollyExley #artMaking #MakeArt #hope #courage #sanity #teamHuman
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sanity lies in paying attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVcHsomf5DE
#HollyExley #artMaking #MakeArt #hope #courage #sanity #teamHuman
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sanity lies in paying attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVcHsomf5DE
#HollyExley #artMaking #MakeArt #hope #courage #sanity #teamHuman
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A good summary of the 1990s internet commons, and maybe a warning for the online commons of the 2020s?
"Well, the Market hadn't figured out how to monetize it yet, and the commoners, for their part, didn't preemptively devise ways to protect the value they were creating."
#DavidBollier, 2025
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Remember when Google’s motto was Don’t Be Evil aw that was so cute!
Fun story: Google shoving AI summaries of every single search result in your face before the actual content, so even if you’re fully committed to #TeamHuman, you’re already using AI instead of your own mind, is a quiet, uncaring, long-game evil of which the wildest & most cruel of SF dystopias dare not dream.
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Ditch #ChatGPT etc., Please. There is neither a short- nor a long- term advantage to be had from "using" it. It's a trap.
There's only #TeamHuman and #TeamDeathCult now.
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"What happened - and partly as a result of the marketing of identity politics, by people who were exploiting the gender problem and race problems and all that for political and capitalist ends... really consumerist ends - they've kind of bastardised self and community derived notions of identity.
It's led to... identity as a performance, rather than identity as a state of being. As your natural moment to moment expression."
#DouglasRushkoff, 2024
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"You don't have to know what's at the level beneath you all the time... Even the priesthoods each have to trust the priesthoods beneath them, that they're giving them all the options. Of what the chip can do, of what the OS can do, of what the program can do. So for me, media literacy is really understanding the level on which you are working."
https://shows.acast.com/teamhuman/episodes/58ad8901c3c0745f63b0e514 -
"*If* we only have 90 seconds, left that's still no reason not to celebrate the ecstasy of our collective existence."
#DouglasRushkoff, 2024
https://shows.acast.com/teamhuman/episodes/the-secret-history-and-unwritten-future-of-psychedelics-and- -
"Out of reading [The Dawn of Everything] a colleague and I, Federica Carugati who's a political scientist, started a project called Governance Archaeology. Where we started more systematically cataloguing diverse practices of self-government throughout history, around the world, and starting to develop partnerships with communities that are stewards of these practices."
https://shows.acast.com/teamhuman/episodes/nathan-schneider
#podcasts #TeamHuman #NathanSchneider #GovernanceArchaeology #TheDawnOfEverything
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"Out of reading [The Dawn of Everything] a colleague and I, Federica Carugati who's a political scientist, started a project called Governance Archaeology. Where we started more systematically cataloguing diverse practices of self-government throughout history, around the world, and starting to develop partnerships with communities that are stewards of these practices."
https://shows.acast.com/teamhuman/episodes/nathan-schneider
#podcasts #TeamHuman #NathanSchneider #GovernanceArchaeology #TheDawnOfEverything
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"Out of reading [The Dawn of Everything] a colleague and I, Federica Carugati who's a political scientist, started a project called Governance Archaeology. Where we started more systematically cataloguing diverse practices of self-government throughout history, around the world, and starting to develop partnerships with communities that are stewards of these practices."
https://shows.acast.com/teamhuman/episodes/nathan-schneider
#podcasts #TeamHuman #NathanSchneider #GovernanceArchaeology #TheDawnOfEverything
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"Out of reading [The Dawn of Everything] a colleague and I, Federica Carugati who's a political scientist, started a project called Governance Archaeology. Where we started more systematically cataloguing diverse practices of self-government throughout history, around the world, and starting to develop partnerships with communities that are stewards of these practices."
https://shows.acast.com/teamhuman/episodes/nathan-schneider
#podcasts #TeamHuman #NathanSchneider #GovernanceArchaeology #TheDawnOfEverything
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To paraphrase and build upon something Mushon Zer-Aviv said on the most recent #TeamHuman: If your empathy for a subject or cause, removes your ability to see the opposition's perspective, you're not showing empathy, but a psychosis and likely are in someone else's dominance algorithm.
That podcast is here: https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/285-mushon-zer-aviv
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#Listening to Micro Biome, the title track of the 2023 album by Formidable Vegetable, produced, mixed & mastered by Spoonbill ;
"Micro Biome,
Oh, what have you done to me?
We’re all entangled together,
In one living community"https://formidablevegetable.bandcamp.com/track/micro-biome
#HatTip to Douglas @Rushkoff for featuring this at the end of a recent monologue on the Team Human podcast.
https://shows.acast.com/teamhuman/episodes/transcendence-is-for-losers
#music #Funk #Swing #Permaculture #FormidableVegetable #Spoonbill #podcast #TeamHuman
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"In all of [#AynRand's] books there are only 2 pages that mention children, that mention human reproduction. None of her uber-lord characters reproduce... What a sterile, lifeless world!
But she had to do that. Because if there are children, then she's cornered by the fact that these super-duper uber-lords will have brats that have not earned their place in the world but inherit everything, and all she's done is re create feudalism."
#DavidBrin, 2024
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@Rushkoff I'd love to hear #TeamHuman interviews with Yanis Varoufakis about his Technofeudalism thesis;
... and David Chapman about Meaningness and his proposition (as a former AI researcher) that we're Better Without AI;
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"The oligarchs are trying to destroy our Enlightenment experiment by destroying politics. Politics in the USA has been destroyed."
#DavidBrin, 2023
"Right and without the politics, you can't define the arenas in which the competition is happening. You can't create the rules sets..."
#DouglasRushkoff, 2023
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"We need a new discussion in society about; what is a solidarity-based politics for an age of collapse?"
#JemBendell, 2023
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"It is corrosive and it is *decadent*, in the truest sense of the word. Decadent is not drinking champaign, right, or sushi, it's decay. It is decay of the values and morals on which a society depends."
#DouglasRushkoff, Leaving X and Social Media Behind, 2023
https://shows.acast.com/teamhuman/episodes/leaving-x-and-social-media-behind -
TLDW of #FoldingIdeas' #Gamestock / #MemeStocks video https://youtu.be/5pYeoZaoWrA?t=8826 😔 "No one deserves" to:
1> be exploited like this
2> get shaken down [so] they have no other choice but to become #grifters themselves […]
3> have their ego and security ground down to the point that there’s no escape, no reason to step back and admit defeat, no reason to reflectEmpathy, sufficiency & community (#GameB #SolarPunk #TeamHuman) are antidotes to greed & despair of #VampireCapitalism! 🌞 vs. 🧛
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TLDW of #FoldingIdeas' #Gamestock / #MemeStocks video https://youtu.be/5pYeoZaoWrA?t=8826 😔 "No one deserves" to:
1> be exploited like this
2> get shaken down [so] they have no other choice but to become #grifters themselves […]
3> have their ego and security ground down to the point that there’s no escape, no reason to step back and admit defeat, no reason to reflectEmpathy, sufficiency & community (#GameB #SolarPunk #TeamHuman) are antidotes to greed & despair of #VampireCapitalism! 🌞 vs. 🧛
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TLDW of #FoldingIdeas' #Gamestock / #MemeStocks video https://youtu.be/5pYeoZaoWrA?t=8826 😔 "No one deserves" to:
1> be exploited like this
2> get shaken down [so] they have no other choice but to become #grifters themselves […]
3> have their ego and security ground down to the point that there’s no escape, no reason to step back and admit defeat, no reason to reflectEmpathy, sufficiency & community (#GameB #SolarPunk #TeamHuman) are antidotes to greed & despair of #VampireCapitalism! 🌞 vs. 🧛
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TLDW of #FoldingIdeas' #Gamestock / #MemeStocks video https://youtu.be/5pYeoZaoWrA?t=8826 😔 "No one deserves" to:
1> be exploited like this
2> get shaken down [so] they have no other choice but to become #grifters themselves […]
3> have their ego and security ground down to the point that there’s no escape, no reason to step back and admit defeat, no reason to reflectEmpathy, sufficiency & community (#GameB #SolarPunk #TeamHuman) are antidotes to greed & despair of #VampireCapitalism! 🌞 vs. 🧛
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TLDW of #FoldingIdeas' #Gamestock / #MemeStocks video https://youtu.be/5pYeoZaoWrA?t=8826 😔 "No one deserves" to:
1> be exploited like this
2> get shaken down [so] they have no other choice but to become #grifters themselves […]
3> have their ego and security ground down to the point that there’s no escape, no reason to step back and admit defeat, no reason to reflectEmpathy, sufficiency & community (#GameB #SolarPunk #TeamHuman) are antidotes to greed & despair of #VampireCapitalism! 🌞 vs. 🧛
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"In a world where tech has become a transcendent force, people are always looking for guidance."
by @gepstein
"Techno-solutionism and related ideas can function as a kind of theology, justifying harm in the here and now with the promise of a sweet technological hereafter."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/15/1077369/tech-ethics-congregation/
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Currently listening to Douglas Rushkoff talking to Gabriel Kennedy about his upcoming book Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson.
#DouglasRushkoff #TeamHuman #RobertAntonWilson #Podcasts #CurrentlyListening
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/265-gabriel-kennedy-life-thought-crimes-robert-anton-wilson
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"I just read Anand's new book The Persuaders [Anand Giridharadas: https://thepersuadersbook.com/]. He evinces or quotes a theory of messaging that says; you should start with an appeal to shared values, then identify a problem... then identify a villain."
#CoryDoctorow, 2022
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/229-cory-doctorow
Huh?
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@Rushkoff and @msifry not only talking smart #TeamHuman stuff, but nice shout-out to #PeteSeeger's #SloopClearwater campaign to clean-up the Hudson, starting some 50 years ago. Does activism need more #singing and #banjos? https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/237-micah-sifry
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@Rushkoff and @msifry not only talking smart #TeamHuman stuff, but nice shout-out to #PeteSeeger's #SloopClearwater campaign to clean-up the Hudson, starting some 50 years ago. Does activism need more #singing and #banjos? https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/237-micah-sifry
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@Rushkoff and @msifry not only talking smart #TeamHuman stuff, but nice shout-out to #PeteSeeger's #SloopClearwater campaign to clean-up the Hudson, starting some 50 years ago. Does activism need more #singing and #banjos? https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/237-micah-sifry
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What a company like Uber is doing is not some kind of creative destruction, but just destructive destruction.
-- Douglas Rushkoff, Team Human
#Quotes #TeamHuman #CreativeDestruction #DestructiveDestruction #DouglasRushkoff
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What a company like Uber is doing is not some kind of creative destruction, but just destructive destruction.
-- Douglas Rushkoff, Team Human
#Quotes #TeamHuman #CreativeDestruction #DestructiveDestruction #DouglasRushkoff