But what if Clippy wants us to become paperclips? /s

Ich freue mich ganz außerordentlich: Im Februar 2026 erscheint mein Buch “Kybernetik und Kritik. Eine Theorie digitaler Regierungskunst” bei @suhrkamp.de: www.suhrkamp.de/buch/anna-ve...

das problem mit der KI-bubble ist, dass wenn sie kollabiert, wird eine unglaubliche menge an data centre infrastruktur herumstehen, die irgendwie benutzt werden muss und die drei bereiche werden sein: militär, überwachung und eugenik

NEW: Amid concerns over the Biden administration's regulation of the crypto industry, billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen, a longtime Democrat, donated more than $5 million to groups supporting Trump ahead of the 2024 election. Since then, he's gotten what he called for: a hollowed-out CFPB.

Great interactive social maps for a bleak as hell premise: the tech billionaires behind the #aicoup in the US, and how they’ve set their eyes on Europe.

Lol the Germans truly can’t stop writing this one weird book 😂

cool book, cool press www.wirklichkeitbooks.com/the-new-fasc...

Die Rechten stehen kurz vor der Macht und niemand ist drauf vorbereitet. Damit sich das ändert, starten @sebfriedrich.bsky.social und ich heute einen neuen Newsletter. Drei Texte gibt es schon jetzt, in Zukunft veröffentlichen wir mindestens einen weiteren pro Woche. Jetzt abonnieren! 👇

stoked

Here’s part 1 of our four-part Better Offline case against generative AI. I walk you through how generative AI is sold through a complete misunderstanding of the concept of labor - and myth-building by companies like NVIDIA and OpenAI. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Publishers Weekly gave GILDED RAGE a starred review: "an ominous window into the extremism, accelerationism, and “fusion of corporate and state power” at the highest levels of U.S. politics." www.publishersweekly.com/9781399419987

“"So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?" I said, "Yes, that's right."”

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

As predicted: “Oracle [founded by Trump ally Larry Ellison], Andreessen Horowitz [founded by Trump/Thiel ally Marc Andreessen] consortium will control 80% of TikTok…” 9/16/25 Ellison & Andreessen also funded Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, so this is kind of like capturing Boardwalk & Park Place. 1/

Since they have actually let me into the US, you can listen to me talk at #4S2025 about "Exit from the Valley" in person. The story I'll be telling is way less networked than you would think - it's about soil, brick and mortar. And it is a story of citizen protest halting big tech mega projects.

Ah so Abundance is a fascist project. Rad.

Mit vielen großartigen Gästen wie Douglas Rushkoff, Quinn Slobodian, @enzensberger.bsky.social, @chrixcoenen.bsky.social, @andreaskemper.bsky.social, @simongoeshill.bsky.social uvm. Von @philippschnee.bsky.social, Hartwig Vens, Jenny Genzmer & Jaya Mirani.

Witches, Bitches, Itches diese Woche zum ersten Mal vor dem Shitbürger in der BS Liste und ich danke allen die an mich & dieses Buch geglaubt haben und es gekauft haben. Habe das Gefühl alles erreicht zu haben und für diese Woche einen neuen Bildschirmhintergrund ❤️‍🔥

WeTransfer verlangt uneingeschränkte Rechte an allen übermittelten Inhalten, um KI zu trainieren.

Bei den Mietpreisen wäre 100% noch besser: 2 Stellen in den Medienwissenschaften an der Uni Hamburg sind ausgeschrieben. Die Facts: 75%, 6 LVS, unbefristet www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

Schluss mit "Up or Out" Der Wissenschaftsrat erklärt Dauerstellen zum Regelfall. Ein Paukenschlag vor der Novelle des Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetzes. Im Interview erklären Wolfgang Wick und Insa Großkraumbach, was das bedeutet. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/07...

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen an der Göttinger Soziologie haben aus Protest keine Abschlussarbeiten mehr betreut und nun werden sie tatsächlich entlastet. #ichbinhanna www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

Viel Spaß mit den vielen geplanten Rechenzentren: www.bbc.com/news/article...

In a long, whiny post about a recent Atlantic article about him, white supremacist Jordan Lasker posts an incompetent analysis using the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study dataset that appears to have been illegitimately accessed and then stolen by one of his coauthors.

📣 Call for abstracts: Workshop on Generative AI & the Faces of Power, Nov 20-21 at the Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin Does your work deal with theoretical questions surrounding GenAI and power? Submit your proposals (ca. 500 words) by Aug 15! 👉 Full call: cloud.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/s/...

🗓️ Termin für #IchBinHanna & alle Interessierten: Am 14. Juli um 11 Uhr stellt der @wissenschaftsrat.de sein Positionspapier "Personalstrukturen im deutschen Wissenschaftssystem" vor. Wir sind gespannt! @drkeichhorn.bsky.social @kubon.bsky.social Mehr Infos hier. ⬇️

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

CfP for Navigationen. Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften 2/26. »Technofascism« Glancing at current headlines, it is palpably clear that the utopian tech visions of the 1990s have morphed into something darker. Let's talk about the techno in technofascism - again.

Angesichts der Verlautbarung des Innenministers Dobrindt, dass er nicht ausschließe, Palantir in polizeilichen Bundesbehörden einzusetzen (die Entscheidung sei noch nicht gefallen hieß es im Juni), hier der Essay von @tlecaque.bsky.social und mir zu Palantir, ICE, White Supremacy und LotR

i love a feel-good story

I got a look at the progression timeline for AI development and it said the "facilitate racism, misogyny, and fascism" phase comes right before the "cure cancer" phase which then leads to "solve climate change." It's a weird sequence but that's how tech works. The good stuff is coming any day now!

Am Ende stellt sich heraus: Beim Thema K.I. und Kunst es geht nicht um einen mythischen Kampf Mensch gegen Maschine, sondern um Geld.

We have two jobs going at Leuphana University's Centre for Digital Cultures, one PostDoc and one PhD position. Both are involved in the Climate Futures in Digital Cultures research field we are building up. Deadline 29th June! Feel free to get in touch if interested! Links in comment.

Es ist alles sehr bizarr

NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out. Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible. Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape

700 engineers in a trench coat

Oberflächlich betrachtet wirkt «Evie» wie ein typisches Hochglanz­magazin. Tatsächlich ist es ein Propaganda­blatt für Frauen, das völkisches Denken und rassistische Narrative zelebriert. Eine Analyse von @ardenthistorian.bsky.social.

“As Thiel's mentee, [Mark] Zuckerberg, grew Facebook into a social media monopoly—harvesting data from all of us in the public—Palantir became an ever-present tool for our govt’s defense efforts. Coincidence these 2 companies, influenced by Thiel, have wide-reaching surveillance capabilities?” 1/

Some people don't think Yarvin is important. They are wrong. But his value is not in his genius, which does not exist. He's the guy who says what fascist billionaires want to hear. Their embrace of the *ideas* he spouts — despite his unhinged persona — is the scary part.

The AI industry is one in a series of overhyped tech moments. If we care about humanity, the resources they're putting behind it now would be better spent elsewhere. Nobody better to break this down than @edwardongwesojr.com. Listen to this week's ep.👇🏽

The “AI jobs apocalypse” heralded by AI CEOs like Dario Amodei and Sam Altman is a story with one particular audience in mind: the bosses who are eager to see it happen

my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

one thing that isn't mentioned here is that Clearview AI has been providing neo-Nazi groups with free Clearview AI accounts since the company was founded

This week on Dystopia Now @xriskology.bsky.social and I talked to Quinn Slobodian about neoliberalism and tech billionaires. One of my favorite episodes so far! Apple Podcasts and Spotify!

“[B]itcoin is fulfilling PayPal’s original vision to create ‘the new world currency.’ We actually had T-shirts printed in 1999 w/ that mission statement” - 2017, David Sacks (Trump’s “Crypto Czar”) In 2024, Sacks encouraged Trump to pick JD Vance—a protégé of PayPal founder Peter Thiel—as VP. 👇 1/

My favorite tech critic @parismarx.com at #rp25 reminds us, that this all started way before Trump II. Look at logistical.city/techbromap as well for our map and play the tech bro quartett

AI's energy demand is guaranteed to get worse, because Big Tech is determined to drive DEMAND for AI without limit. So much for sustainability!

gut dass "Digitaler Faschismus" grosse aufmerksamkeit auf der #re:publika bekommt. Hier gibts lektüren dazu:

Das Relevanteste kam heute von @bildoperationen.bsky.social und @nataschastrobl.bsky.social. Vielen Dank dafür! #rp25