#tescreal — Public Fediverse posts

Naomi Klein's new #book "End Times Fascism. And The Fight For The Living World" is out, here's an adapted #essay giving #hope and inspirations for resistance. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/13/end-times-fascists-essay

A "post-capitalist and pro- (all of) life fight. Deeply democratic, socialist, feminist, multiracial, multispecies, internationalist, generous, courageous and animate. Embodied and sensory, proudly earthbound."

#resistance #future #longreads #TESCREAL #DemocracyMatters #democracy #bookstodon #solarpunk

@masek Please never compare fascist and/or irresponsible actions to #neurodivergent people or, as it often happens, too, with mental illness.
This damages seriously the situation of these people in society! And is often #ableism.

Name what it is: fascism, greed, corruption, power lust. A president with more and more control/thought deficits (let him forget his wars). But he is not the only one, the rest of his fascists are even worse! It's a cult, not an illness, not diversity.

#TESCREAL

👆 #AIpsychosis "… [is] thought to arise from a perfect storm of trends in chatbot design. One is excessive sycophancy, a byproduct of the way models are trained, which leads them to prioritise giving pleasing answers over telling users they are wrong or need to log off or seek professional help. Another is their limited memories: as conversations extend into hundreds of thousands of words, chatbots can lose sight of their safety instructions & embark on dangerous spirals … "
#noAI #TESCREAL

👆 #AIpsychosis "… [is] thought to arise from a perfect storm of trends in chatbot design. One is excessive sycophancy, a byproduct of the way models are trained, which leads them to prioritise giving pleasing answers over telling users they are wrong or need to log off or seek professional help. Another is their limited memories: as conversations extend into hundreds of thousands of words, chatbots can lose sight of their safety instructions & embark on dangerous spirals … "
#noAI #TESCREAL

👆 #AIpsychosis "… [is] thought to arise from a perfect storm of trends in chatbot design. One is excessive sycophancy, a byproduct of the way models are trained, which leads them to prioritise giving pleasing answers over telling users they are wrong or need to log off or seek professional help. Another is their limited memories: as conversations extend into hundreds of thousands of words, chatbots can lose sight of their safety instructions & embark on dangerous spirals … "
#noAI #TESCREAL

👆 #AIpsychosis "… [is] thought to arise from a perfect storm of trends in chatbot design. One is excessive sycophancy, a byproduct of the way models are trained, which leads them to prioritise giving pleasing answers over telling users they are wrong or need to log off or seek professional help. Another is their limited memories: as conversations extend into hundreds of thousands of words, chatbots can lose sight of their safety instructions & embark on dangerous spirals … "
#noAI #TESCREAL

👆 #AIpsychosis "… [is] thought to arise from a perfect storm of trends in chatbot design. One is excessive sycophancy, a byproduct of the way models are trained, which leads them to prioritise giving pleasing answers over telling users they are wrong or need to log off or seek professional help. Another is their limited memories: as conversations extend into hundreds of thousands of words, chatbots can lose sight of their safety instructions & embark on dangerous spirals … "
#noAI #TESCREAL

@diemkay Especially about the fascist cults of the techbros' #TESCREAL, @timnitGebru has not only coined the term and written a paper (with a colleague), but she has also written a book now: Deep Unlearning. I further recommend @emilymbender with a new book The AI Con (and a podcast). Both books are also helping to resist.

#racism #SabineHossenfelder #NathanCofnas #PeterThiel #TESCREAL adjacent

Sabine Hossenfelder: More Exposed Than Ever! (Racism Edition) - Professor Dave
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BdB79BUcLV0&is=F5vXiiYV-h9W9xRV

#racism #SabineHossenfelder #NathanCofnas #PeterThiel #TESCREAL adjacent

Sabine Hossenfelder: More Exposed Than Ever! (Racism Edition) - Professor Dave
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BdB79BUcLV0&is=F5vXiiYV-h9W9xRV

In the summer of 2024, in Europe, there was this petition to #TaxTheRich that needed to get 1 million signatures. Had this number been reached, the EU politicians would *have* to discuss the topic.

We had a year to get the 1 million signatures, but even after 10 months we still had only 250,000 signatures.

No sane working-class person can be against #TaxTheRich, so I figured it's only because nobody even hears of the existence of this petitition that it never took off.

As the deadline came closer and closer, I saw the petitition shared more and more on Mastodon. But Mastodon is a tiny network. With our cozy little bubble we would never find 750,000 signatures in less than two months. What we needed was a person with a massive reach to boost the initiative. A single "influencer" with a few million followers could get us the 750,000 missing signatures within a day.

So I figured a promising winning strategy is to write to a few YouTubers with large followings. You can imagine how that went, but I thought it worth a try, and then I could at least say I didn't leave a single stone unturned.

I wrote to Ali Abdaal, since he had already mentioned (and made a few videos about) the "10% Pledge", about donating to charities for the rest of his life.

https://aliabdaal.com/giving-what-we-can/

At the time, in the summer of 2024, he also flew his entire team to Turkey for some "off-site"/"workcation". He apparently ran out of ideas for videos to create to keep the needy YouTube algorithm happy, so he just filmed himself and his crew having a holiday in a rented mansion with a swimming pool, masquerading as work and planning quarterly goals or whatever. Imagine the CO2 emissions of flying 15 people or so to an "off-site"/vacation.

Of course I never received an answer from Ali Abdaal, who was portraying himself being serious about giving away 10% of the money he makes. Of course I foresaw that beforehand but thought it worth a try. The deadline passed and #TaxTheRich didn't even come close to the necessary number of signatures.

Only later (after the deadline had passed) did I learn that "Giving What We Can" is founded by Toby Ord, William MacAskill, and Bernadette Young. It's Effective Altruism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giving_What_We_Can

#TESCREAL #EffectiveAltruism

@alineblankertz The connections between “AI” boosters, “AI” doomers, #EffectiveAltruism and other #TESCREAL ideologies are explained quite clearly in @RainerMuehlhoff’s little book “AI and the New Fascism” which will appear in November. (I read the German original edition.)

https://rainermuehlhoff.de/en/KI-und-der-neue-Faschismus-Reclam-Buch/

#TIL what #TESCREAL means. I'm impressed by the explanatory power of conceiving of this cluster of #ideologies as an #interconnected #aggregate which then get used to justify #harm

I feel like a lightbulb went on and that I understand the current state we're all in a bit better now.

Highly recommend starting with the @wikipedia article, which covers the #concept and some of the #criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL

Thanks go to #Bhante #Sujato (https://sujato.me/) for making me aware of the term.

#transhumanism #extropianism #singularitarianism #singularity #cosmism #rationalism #effectiveAltruism #longtermism #transhumanist #transhuman #longnow #eugenics #AGI #utopia #utopianism #bigtech

@mhpotter I gave you a lot of justification: the works by Timnit Gebru and Emile Torres. That I even summarized and linked for you. You just ignored it.

The University of Oxford, and especially their philosophy department is highly problematic. They also employ Nick Bostrom and other highly problematic professors who are all in one way or another connected to billionaires and eugenicists, and they "criti-hype" AI for billionaires by describing doomsday scenarios.

As long as the University of Oxford doesn't cut ties with these philosophy professors, the University of Oxford is itself problematic. So are think tanks coming out of it.

The University of Oxford also employs Israeli professors (for example, in their computer science department) who are openly zionist and genocidal.

#TESCREAL #EffectiveAltruism

@[email protected] Genocide is defined as any of certain acts that are committed with the _intent_ to destroy, in whole or just parts, a specific group. You don't even have to succeed in your attempts to destroy, you just have to have had the intention to destroy. If you can't see that J. K. Rowling is doing exactly that, then you have a pretty limited imagination.

It doesn't require gas chambers or machetes or missiles to commit genocide.

Whether it actually is genocide is up for debate, but denying it up front with the words "ridiculous" and "any stretch of the imagination" makes you look like an absolute asshole.

Defending J. K. Rowling _and_ Effective Altruism, I wonder why I don't simply block you.

Maybe you're just a lost young person who listened to the wrong people. But now that I explained both to you, you know better, so don't continue arguing or I'll block you.

Edit: Fixed typo in altruism.

#HarryPotter #TESCREAL #EffectiveAltruism

Eliezer Yudkowsky is the guy who coined the term Effective Altruism, the toxic ideology that billionaires and capitalism-brained aspiring millionaires use to excuse their greed.

They tell themselves, for example, that it's good to work at awful companies such as Facebook/Meta to make ungodly amounts of money because, "look at all the good things I could do with all that money," while ignoring all the awful consequences of them working for these companies.

Eliezer Yudkowsky is in large parts responsible for introducing and turning billionaires to this toxic ideology. He's also responsbile for another toxic ideology called Rationalism where they suppress all their feelings, and its communities such as LessWrong or Slate Star Codex.

He apparently also wrote a fan-fiction book for Harry Potter, called "Harry Potter and the Method of Rationality". Its premise is that Harry Potter was raised by scientists and University of Oxford professors (🙄), and at the age of 10 having already received a rigorous scientific education, before being sent to Hogwarts, where he then examines the magic through the lens of science.

"Productivity YouTuber" Ali Abdaal who has millions of uneducated gullible followers, is now promoting that book with a video literally titled, "I am begging you to read [this book]."

Promoting Harry Potter in 2026 is definitely a choice. J. K. Rowling is doing her best to ensure the death of all transgender people. What Rowling is doing literally falls under the definition of genocide.

Promoting the works of Effective Altruists in 2026 is definitely a choice.

Ali Abdaal represents everything that is wrong with Gen Z aspiring to become millionaires by way of becoming YouTubers. Please stop watching him.

I discovered his channel in 2018 or so, when he showed his viewers the flashcard app Anki. And I learned how to study effectively thanks to him, something school or my parents never taught me. But I quickly got turned off by his channel around 2019 or so when he started pivoting to iPad reviews like every other tech channel. And especially when his popularity exploded in 2020 with everyone stuck at home due to the pandemic.

Please stop watching him if you do.

#EffectiveAltruism #TESCREAL #HarryPotter

#TIL (Today I Learned) that "Aella", the sex worker who poses as data scientist by sending people questionaires asking about their sex life and who was platformed by Lex Fridman, is running a cult where they preach that AI will kill us all and that doomsday is near … unless, of course, we redirect all our money into "AI Safety startups" to prevent that from happening.

It's all a marketing plot for the most disgusting companies of our time.

Aella is a good friend of Grimes, felon Musk's long-term partner. And that's how Lex Fridman and Aella were introduced to each other.

At Aella's cult named "plzdontkillus", influencers chasing fame and money are first lured in by promises of heaploads of money and then made to crank out one video a day to their followers. Attendants are even subjected to "voluntary" torture methods such as waterboarding.

How is this different from Charles Manson's cult?

The Effective Altruists financing all this also subverted popular YouTube channels such as Hank Green's SciCom.

I've also long grown wary of Kurzgesagt which I watched a lot around 2018–2020.

Meanwhile Peter Thiel is inviting influential people to secret meetups he calls "Dialog" where they can discuss off the records how to build cults. Leaks have shown that besides CEOs of various corporations, even Kaja Kallas of the EU Commission attended the secret Dialog meetings.

Seemingly everyone around you is turning crazy, developing psychosis, or becoming indoctrinated into a cult.

Also meanwhile, uninformed people (for example, your coworkers) think you're a nutcase when you mention any of this and speak out against "AI" at the workplace.

Please stop watching these podcasts. Stop giving these folks your attention. I don't know what else to say.

#LexFridman #TESCREAL #EffectiveAltruism #GenAI #capitalism #ClimateCatastrophe

I may use this ⏫op to start a bunch of threads

Be it about #tescreal #foreverWar #omnicide #palestine #Lebanon #Gaza #Iran #ecocide

#colonialism essentially IS the #nationState s* system and what is happening worldwide with the authority grab is directly related to the #westphalian system #fascism and at the current moment, #zionism

and even #solarpunk because nobody is talking about what happened in 1973 to the conservation movement

A more aggressive anti-oil populace will blow conservation projects and scientific advancement

And using less energy/oil is very revolutionary

Indeed a praxis of constant reduction when where possible in however small way can pave the way to an #AHA!! Moment that CAN change the world

*Yes, it's a legalistic system modeled after the us Constitution and espcially in the mena they have all morphed into puppets, reliant on the bloated #pigEmpire ..the mena are all failed us states

Every now and then someone brings up #EffectiveAltruism, #TESCREAL, #RokosBasilisk, #Rationalism, or some other #Musk related nonsense. I ridicule it, or laugh, and move on. The whole evil god of Roko's Basilisk is so silly it doesn't feel worth writing about. But people started a whole cult over it and killed a bunch of people.

Since then I've been meaning to actually spend time tearing it down. So I think it's time to go kill a god. Fortunately it involves making fun of Elon Musk specifically and all the #AI-pilled #TechBros more generally, so that's nice I guess.

Also, I make the argument that we're all in a simulation that only exists to torture Elon Musk.

https://hexmhell.writeas.com/galileos-basilisk

#NoAI #Singularity #longtermism #Yudkowsky #Zizians

#hka:
"
Schöne neue Welt? Welche Zukunft sieht die Digital-Oligarchie für uns vor?
"
"Landesweite Ringvorlesung des Zentrums für ethische Fragen im 21. Jahrhundert vom 22.10. bis 10.12.2025"
".. mittwochs + online"

https://www.h-ka.de/die-hochschule-karlsruhe/aktuelles/news/2025/ringvorlesung-schoene-neue-welt-welche-zukunft-sieht-die-digital-oligarchie-fuer-uns-vor

"Die Aufzeichnungen der einzelnen Vorträge erfolgt im Anschuss auf YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@zef21-karlsruhe"

9.10.2025

#AI #BigTech #Ethik #ITAS #KI #Kosmismus #Longtermismus #Macht #Machtkonzentration #Oligarchie #Singularitarismus #Transhumanismus #TESCREAL #ZEF21

Die bizarre Ideenwelt der Silicon-Valley-Elite

In der ARD Audiothek gibt es eine Reihe Podcasts, die gut recherchiert und tiefgründig erklären, warum und mit welchen Zielen die Tech-Oligarchen gerade tun, was sie tun.

👉 https://kaffeeringe.de/2025/08/29/wie-tickt-big-tech/

#ARD #AynRand #BigTech #Deutschlandfunk #DonaldTrump #EffektiverAltruismus #ElonMusk #Extropianismus #Hörtipp #JeffBezos #Kosmismus #Longtermismus #MarkZuckerberg #PeterThiel #Podcast #Rationalismus #SiliconValley #Singularitätsglaube #TESCREAL #Transhumanismus #USA #Wirtschaft

Wie unterscheidet man diese Geschichte mit #TESCREAL, #Longtermismus und "#KI" als Religion für die Tech-Oligarchen eigentlich von einem Verschwörungsmythos?

/cc @kattascha @BlumeEvolution

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-longtermismus-der-geist-des-digitalen-kapitalismus

Why Effective Altruism and “Longtermism” Are Toxic Ideologies ❧ Current Affairs
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/05/why-effective-altruism-and-longtermism-are-toxic-ideologies

>Intellectual historian Émile P. Torres @xriskology explains how Silicon Valley’s favorite ideas for changing the world for the better actually threaten to make it much, much worse.

#HumanExtinction #Extinction #Ethics #Annihilation #TESCREAL #longtermism #effectivealtruism
@philosophy @ethics