Hörenswertes Gespräch mit Harald Welzer über die gegenwärtige Situation #HotelMatze : hotelmatze.podigee.io/486-harald-w...

Some background and context on #Palantir @techwontsave.us : techwontsave.us/episode/294_...

#technofascism #ai “They know what they want, they know what they’re doing, and they know where it leads.” – Hagen Blix and Ingeborg Gimmer www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...

"Fascism ... is committed to a play of power and aesthetics that regards a desire for truthfulness as an admission of weakness. It loves a bullshit generator, because it cannot conceive of a debate as anything but a fight for power..." Great piece from @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer.

“We are up against an ideology that has given up … on the livability of our shared world …. The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.” – Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein

„This is because the conviction that #technology is neutral is not itself neutral; it paradoxically functions as the conviction that this #neutrality is itself a good thing, so as to sanction the technological development of more neutral tools.“ – Anton Barba-Kay, @HedgehogReview

We know that #BigTech consumes tons of energy & water. What was missed is that they are also attempting to control ecological transition paths turning govs & societies even more dependent on them This is the main finding of my new paper w @silviaweko.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hi @nafeez.bsky.social I am reading Alt Reich & it is fantastic. I‘ve been reading Susanne Kaisers Backlash parallel. Another book of her Political Masculinity is out in English. If you haven’t heard about her work, please check her out. Best regards! www.politybooks.com/search?s=Pol...

Today the OpenAI Nonprofit Commission released a report asserting OpenAI is ‘positioned to be a force of good in this Age of Intelligence’. The report also claims that AI Now was among the orgs participating in the listening process that led to this report. We did not.

New report on teens and #AICompanions by @CommonSense 3 of 4 teenagers age 13 to 17 used #AI companions. 1 of 3 teen-users think their AI relationship is as satisfying or more satisfying as contact with friends. 1060 surveyed across the #US. m.youtube.com/watch?v=QqPgP8…#redflagag

#AI #fascism #bigtech

#Quoteofthemonth #ai @rushkoff.com

“What is in my power that represents a threat to the global economy?” UN rapporteur @franceskalbs.bsky.social tells @naomiaklein.bsky.social her thoughts on the backlash she’s faced since publishing her report on companies involved in Israel’s genocide. Watch now: zeteo.com/p/israels-te...

Sobering piece by @xriskology.bsky.social on the root of Silicon Valley‘s despite for life.

Yes, I did sound the alarm on agentic AI's privacy threat, and rightly so. observer.com/2025/07/sign...

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

Excellent comment by Douglas Rushkoff on AI hype and the push on the inevitability of AI. New Model Podcast, approx. @05:00: pca.st/episode/cd75...

"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process." organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...

#Petromaskulinität „Die fossile Brennstoffindustrie ist nicht nur ein wirtschaftlich-technisches System. Sie ist Teil eines umfassenden Geflechts von Privilegien und Hierarchien, das seit Jahrzehnten kulturelle Bedeutung prägt. Geschlecht und Energietechnologien bedingen sich gegenseitig.“ – CND

The final episode in the World Localization Extravaganza is here! 🌎 You'll hear from six leaders practicing on-the-ground work as well as building coalitions for systemic change in Europe, Africa and Australia. www.localfutures.org/programs/glo...

„Designers are torn between having to believe, for professional and vocational reasons, in the modern promise of a harmonic, fluid orderliness and being caught in an absurd, glitchy reality. They are the ideal type of a hyper-modern subjectivity – disillusioned evangelists who are loosing faith.“ SL

The harms arising from chatbots are escalating, and not nearly enough is being done to address them before they become a big problem. This week @nitasha.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how chatbots are speedrunning the social media harm cycle. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/282_...

Democracy is not a feedback button in a pop-up on your screen.

“… those who monopolize ressources monopolize imagination.” – Ruha Benjamin #imagination

„If ideologies are imagination + power, then the most effective ideologies are thise that need no police to enforce them, because we internalize and perpetuate them ourselves.“ – @ruha9.bsky.social #imagination

Worth your time: Paul Hawken at GreenDreamer. Truly excellent episode! www.greendreamer.com/podcast/paul...

„… the dominant story told by techno-utopianists to lull us to sleep is that the world‘s major crisis can be solved with even more investment in their energy-intensive digital dreams, which usually also means less public participation and collective dreaming.“ – @ruha9.bsky.social #imagination

„… a people-first approach involves large-scale citizen participation and the democratic control of digital technology and data, rather than technological solutions.“ – @ruha9.bsky.social #imagination

„If ideologies are imagination + power, then the most effective ideologies are thise that need no police to enforce them, because we internalize and perpetuate them ourselves.“ – @ruha9.bsky.social #imagination

„This is a eugenic relationship through which the ease and well-being of one group is tied to the immiseration and potential elimination of another.“ – @ruha9.bsky.social #imagination

The western/global norths nation states sold out to global corporations. This is the original cause for the global shift to authoritarianism, right-wing extremism and fascism. #ClassWar depends on #othering, on #dehumanization, on constantly creating and pointing to enemies. #WealthSupremacy #ISDS

“Deadly eugenic imaginaries animate political regimes and bureaucratic structures, without which it would be impossible to materialize the noxious harms that flood our news feeds and our lives.” – Ruha Benjamin #imagination 1/2

“… those who monopolize ressources monopolize imagination.” – Ruha Benjamin #imagination

"These are not black box algorithms. They are design decisions: conscious choices about what goals to prioritize, what data sources to use, and what safety measures to include."

thanks, in turn for for introducing me, via this link, to the concept of Doikayt, or “hereness". It sounds so much richer than the word "local" that shapes so much sustainability discourse. I'm going to read Molly Crabapple's book to find out if I'm right about that

Stop Gen AI's new page w/ resources about the dangers (economic, environmental, cultural, technological)- books, podcasts, blogs: stopgenai.com/related-link... Please share! @techwontsave.us @404media.co @karenhao.bsky.social @bcmerchant.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social

Worth your time: Paul Hawken at GreenDreamer. Truly excellent episode! www.greendreamer.com/podcast/paul...