How about we try to enforce some kind of ‘Polarization Tax’?

Concept was mentioned during keynote on ‘AI and democracy’ by Lawrence Lessig (@lessig) and Moshe Vardi ( @vardi) at this event:

https://dighum.wien/programme/

#DigitalHumanism
#digihum
#AaronSwartz
#Fediscience

Programme – Digital Humanism Conference 2025

At the Digital Humanism Conference in Vienna, reflecting on how tech must serve democracy, fairness, and human rights. The Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism should always be taken in account for everyone for a bold step toward responsible digital futures. #DigitalHumanism #TechForGood #Dighum2025
Synthetica: Two Minds, One Soul
🧵A delicate embrace of technology and humanity. This intimate portrait of duality merges organic warmth with mechanical precision, blurring the lines between emotion and circuitry. Are they lovers, twins, or two sides of the same sentient being?
🔮Feel the fusion? Follow for more explorations of futuristic intimacy, artful tech and the poetry of connection beyond biology. Let your feed feel again.

#CyberLove #FuturisticPortrait #Synthetica #TechEmbrace #DigitalSoul #HumanAndMachine #AIIntimacy #PostHumanArt #EmotiveFutures #ArtOfConnection #NeonDreams #SentientDesign #ModernMythology #SciFiAesthetic #DualityExplored #EmbraceTheFuture #CyberFolk #RobotRomance #DigitalHumanism #TonHaex #SynthBeauty #FusionOfForms #ElegantTech #EmotionInMetal #LoveBeyondCode 🤖❤️🧠

Conference: The Art Museum in the Digital Age - 2025
📅 20–24 Jan 2025 (Online/Hybrid)
📍Zoom & Belvedere 21, Vienna

Focus: Ethical and societal implications of digital transformation in museums, exploring digital humanism, AI, data spaces, visitor research, and more. Includes workshops and a hybrid panel discussion.

Register: https://www.belvedere.at/digitalmuseum2025

#DigitalMuseums #ArtMuseum #AI #CulturalHeritage #DigitalHumanism #MuseumTech

Belvedere Museum Wien | Das Kunstmuseum im digitalen Zeitalter – 2025

Die Konferenz des Belvedere Research Centers im Jänner 2025 rückte das Digitale Museum von den analogen Vorläufern bis zur postdigitalen Ära in den Mittelpunkt der Debatte.

@emchateau Attention! The "Digital Humanism" distinguishes itself explicitly from what is usually known as "Digital Humanities" (and, I assume, its French equivalent "Humanités numériques"). Probably a translation into "Humanism numérique" might be closer to the interests of the Vienna Manifesto? #DigitalHumanism

* "who are my followers" (to whom I "boost" this) -> audiences -> audience-language (->self-complex)

(keyterms: "collapse of audiences", "context collapse")

#ontology #digitalhumanism #contextcollapse

The future of publishing is empathic: tech that senses your emotional state, adapts tone, pacing, & design for safe, meaningful engagement—in vulnerability. Gentle, human-centered UI for a hyperconnected world. #EmpathicDesign #DigitalHumanism #CompassionateComputing #WebLLM

1 Million Downloads! 🎉

Die Digital Humanism Initiative der Technische Universität Wien hat mit ihren Open-Access-Büchern Introduction to Digital Humanism & Perspectives on Digital Humanism einen beeindruckenden Meilenstein erreicht. 📚🚀

Weiters findet von 28. – 29.November auf der TU Wien ein Workshop zu Digital Humanism statt: A Paradigm Shift in Computer Science?

➡️ https://researchinstitute.at/1-million-downloads-digital-humanism/

#DigitalHumanism #OpenAccess #1MillionDownloads

1 Million Downloads for Books on Digital Humanism

Digital Humanism Initiative der TU WienDie Technische Universität Wien hat im Zuge ihrer Digital Humanism Initiative Expert*innen verschiedener Fachbereiche zusammen gebracht, um mittlerweile schon zwei Bücher zum Thema Digital Humanism zu schreiben, die jeweils als Open Access gratis verfügbar sind.Zu Perspectives on Digital Humanism hat unser Kollege Dipl.-Ing. Dr.

Research Institute

From Julian Nida-Rümelin and Dorothea Winter:

As a result of increasing digitalization, humans are handing over more and more responsibility to artificial intelligence (AI) and digital tools, e.g., in the field of autonomous driving, applicant tracking software, or creditworthiness rating. For this reason, some speak of a so-called counter-Enlightenment. But in contrast to this trend, digital transformation can strengthen the ideals of the Enlightenment and humanism and help humans to achieve more freedom, use of reason, and responsibility—Enlightenment 2.0, so to speak. To shed light on this interplay, we will explain the interdependence between humanism and the Enlightenment in this chapter. This is important to understand the foundations of Digital Humanism in general. In this regard, this chapter is, in a sense, fundamental, because it deals with the foundation of humanism itself (in relation to the Enlightenment).

https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/humanism-and-enlightenment/26552644

I could be categorised as a digital humanist, even if I would be uncomfortable with the term, but I struggle to identify with this. It fails to distinguish between cultural humanism (which I would largely share a posthumanist critique of) and ontological humanism (which I think is necessary to recognise to mount any efficacious critique).

I will persist because I’ve only skimmed this literature so far, but I’d worried that digital humanism in a narrowly cultural mode is little more than a rebranded transhumanism. I will withhold judgement until I’ve read more 🤔

https://markcarrigan.net/2024/11/10/what-is-digital-humanism/

#digitalHumanism #posthumanism #transhumanism

Humanism and Enlightenment

Some authors argue that digital transformation is a form of “counter-Enlightenment.” And indeed, there is a tendency of transhumanist and anti-humanist thought in present-day debates around digitalization. Software systems are described as if they …

springerprofessional.de