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@ebbot 2/2 knowledge of the schools has little in common with that of science...The public must accept gigantic expenditures on science by being persuaded of its certain usefulness. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

SusannaAuthor Old White Hippie 2h ago

Tara McMullin is someone I respect. A lot. She's a deep thinker, and her wheelhouse is work. What works. What doesn't. And why. Now that I'm no longer grinding out content marketing writing, I don't make time to read Tara's newsletter very often, but this one caught my attention. I'm glad it did.
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eddiebbot 3h ago

@ebbot 2/2 function of (technical) knowledge is to be a major element in production. All branches of knowledge are to be productive. The best and most appropriate pedagogy, then, is the technique that prepares young people to enter the cycle of productive forces but that is also a force in ideological reproduction. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

Noli timere 4h ago

Trying to buy a new water filter for the fridge. It’s for sale at:
- a local big box hardware store where everyone entering the parking lot is captured by a Flock camera
- Amazon
- the fridge manufacturer, who want you to use a QR code on the box they mail you to download a smartphone app so that you can check if the filters inside the box are genuine filters.

So if I don’t want to drink nasties, my choices are: be surveilled, and/or give money to evil corporations. I am exhausted.

#dystopia

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eddiebbot 6h ago

@ebbot 2/2 management and administration, embracing the dimensions of conception, manufacture, and use). High schools have detailed instruction in industrial techniques and mechanics. As we foresaw in 1985, computers are being brought into the schools and colleges. Students will have to learn how to use computers, since these are now educational tools, aids to pedagogy. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

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eddiebbot 8h ago

@ebbot 5/5 oversocialization is of great importance in determining the direction of modern leftism. Leftists of the oversocialized type tend to be intellectuals or members of the upper middle class. Notice that university intellectuals3 constitute the most highly socialized segment of our society and also the most left-wing segment. --Ted Kaczynki, Technological Slavery (2010) #technology #dystopia

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eddiebbot 10h ago

@ebbot 3/3 ability to use the computer will replace reading and writing. The illiterates are those who do not adapt. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

Tunera Type Foundry 11h ago

Out now! Ampoule is the latest experimental treat from @daytonamess - just recovered by her from the deep underground tunnels of Argonpolis before it was totally eaten by the Rats. Across its twelve audacious styles, watch dots and bars dance before your eyes to form letters and symbols. 3D renders by Carla Manckoundia (thanks to her!).

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eddiebbot 12h ago

History is made by active, determined minorities, not by the majority, which seldom has a clear and consistent idea of what it really wants. Until the time comes for the final push toward revolution, the task of revolutionaries will be less to win the shallow support of the majority than to build a small core of deeply committed people. --Ted Kaczynki, Technological Slavery (2010) #technology #dystopia