Découvrez ou redécouvrez la présentation de @fredturner.bsky.social lors du séminaire du 04/11. Une discussion autour des mutations idéologiques de la tech américaine, de l’utopie libertaire californienne à une idéologie plus conservatrice incarnée aujourd’hui par le Texas. À visionner sur Vimeo ⬇️

Je suis fier de vous annoncer que C&F éditions vient de publier deux de mes livres: Politique des Machines et Design d'une Démocratie. Ils visent à être des analyses utiles – et porteuses d'espoir – pour les personnes confrontées au technofascisme. Vous pouvez trouver les deux chez C&F ici:

De l’utopie libertaire à l’autoritarisme technologique : comment expliquer le tournant autoritaire de la Silicon Valley et comment y faire face ? @fredturner.bsky.social discutera de ces questions lors de la conférence spéciale organisée par le médialab et le @cis-cnrs.bsky.social

Le 04/11, le médialab et le @cis-cnrs.bsky.social ont le plaisir d’accueillir @fredturner.bsky.social pour un séminaire : « From Californian to Texan Ideology: Conservatism, Religion and Extractivism in the Tech Sector » Une analyse des transformations idéologiques de la Silicon Valley. Infos 👇

Happy to report that The Baffler has released my new essay "The Texas Ideology" just in time to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its inspiration, Barbrook and Cameron’s “The Californian Ideology.” Link below. Enjoy!

Look what came in the mail! Perfect reading for these crazy times.

Adding a separate charge for tariff costs to consumers' bills strikes me as one of the smartest things firms can do right now

Down the Memory Hole! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

A key step on the road to fascism: replacing public institutions with cronies: Musk aides gain access to sensitive Treasury Department payment system

And in today's Anticipatory Obedience File: Google Maps will now show the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. I can't wait to see what they do with Greenland.

Part two: datasociety.net/points/a-wor...

Conservative activists press big companies to buy bitcoin i.e. crypto kleptocracy….

Outrage as Elon Musk claims ‘only AfD can save Germany’ Think Krupp or I G Farben in 1935… this is what CEO support for fascism looks like today.

Privatizing USPS is such a terrible idea. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Our team still studies “collective sensemaking” during breaking news events. What we see with MH17 and Jan6 are attacks on the sensemaking process itself… not just a distortion (like those described in this article) but a denial of service attack on sensemaking. www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/r...

I had 60,000 followers on Twitter after 14 years on the site. I have 30,000 after maybe a year here. If journalists are looking for a place to build back up a coherent reading audience that’s actually engaging with our work, this place obviously seems like it has that particular juice

Last month, the so-called American Academy of Sciences and Letters gave a medal to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who advocated for mass COVID infection. NY Post framed it as a “top award.” We looked into it. AASL is 2 years old—part of a right-wing dark money network trying to transform elite universities.

Helpful info here for trans people and their support networks, supportive family. Also a look at the terrible and senseless disruption of people’s lives coming our way