#therealists — Public Fediverse posts

"A resistance fighter understands that technology must never be accepted as part of the natural order of things, that every technology— from an IQ test to an automobile to a television set to a computer — is a product of a particular economic and political context and carries with it a program, an agenda, and a philosophy that may or may not be life-enhancing and that therefore require scrutiny, criticism, and control. In short, a technological resistance fighter maintains an epistemological and psychic distance from any technology, so that it always appears somewhat strange, never inevitable, never natural."

– Neil Postman, from his book Technopoly (1993)

🔗​: https://therealists.org/2023/03/the-real-enemy-of-a-realist-isnt-big-tech-its-indifference/

#TheRealists #blog #WaybackMachine #resist #resistance #BigTech

@randahl @_elena Just watched. And now I also want to watch #TheRealists documentary too. 😁

Profile: Elena Rossini, pioneering Italian filmmaker charting a path away from big tech.

Self-declared ‘geriatric millennial’ Elena Rossini (@_elena) isn’t content to just make documentaries, self-distribute and market them thru a web of nicely designed sites – she’s pioneering in her use of tech away, and at home on the ‘Fediverse’ – the decentralised alternative to Big Tech, which her next film looks at.

https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/profile-elena-rossini-pioneering-italian-filmmaker-charting-a-path-away-from-big-tech/

Good morning Fedi friends!

I'm currently in the process of moving - one post at a time - #TheRealists blog from #GhostIO to #Wordpress. I still adore Ghost... it's just that it makes no sense to pay for 2 accounts. I'm consolidating everything in one place.

If you enjoy #TheFutureIsFederated, you may also like The Realists, as it covers privacy, surveillance capitalism and our brave new digital world: https://therealists.org/2022/05/what-happens-when-everybody-lies/

You can follow the #blog here too: @elena

#tech #digitalliteracy

I was interviewed by my new friend @_elena creator of #TheRealists. Pretty cool! I have never been interviewed before and it was a lot of fun.

https://newsletter.therealists.org/how-to-stay-grounded-online-a-conversation-with-justin-hanagan/

ICYMI: I wrote about what it's like to be a member of the LAST generation that grew up offline, without the internet... plus raising a small child screen-free in 2024: https://therealists.org/2024/01/in-betweeners/

#technology #tech #parenting #screenfree #genX #genY #genZ #education #TheRealists #digitalliteracy #mindfulness