DATABENCH: Making Data Analytics Fun and Beautiful https://gearsofresistance.substack.com/p/databench
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"While #Musk was looking to the stars, the people of Belfast were still reeling from several days of racist violence. The Belfast pogrom drew strength from the #farRight ecosystem that Musk has nurtured with the money from #SpaceX, #Tesla and other companies."
Long Reads talks w/ #BenTarnoff and #QuinnSlobodian, authors of #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed
#ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #techCriticism #techOligarchs #SiliconValleyRight #books @bookstodon
As the bizarre cover art illustrates (a plastic human body topped with a horse head), the real debate isn't about what the technology can do. It’s about who the tech is doing it to, and who it’s doing it for.
A vital, labor-first reality check to cut through the Silicon Valley hype.
The case against AI hype featuring a conversation with author and critic Cory Doctorow. #artificialintelligence #techcriticism #podcast
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"We have, I believe, crossed a new threshold, and all authored writing [...] will be judged according to which side of that divide it falls on. On one side are texts produced before the arrival of generative #largeLanguageModels (#LLMs). On the other, everything that has followed—texts that might still be useful, even compelling, but that will always face a lingering suspicion of not being entirely human..."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/fakes-future-artificial-intelligence-llms-larb-quarterly-traffic/
#AI #artificialIntelligence #tech #literature #techCriticism
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial]Jun 6Pluralistic: Criticizing the everything machine (06 Jun 2026)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/06/applied-counterescatology/
#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #QuinnSlobodian & #BenTarnoff to talk about their book #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.
'We see a mind that is profoundly troubled by any contagion spreading into seemingly closed systems—it can take the form of racial others, transpeople, “woke” populations, or most generally and dismissively, “Non-Player-Characters.” '
#Musk #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs #books @bookstodon
Today I am delighted to talk with Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff about their new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. This is much more than a biography or popular account of Elon Musk, it is a radical analysis of a deeply disturbing, comput...
Fighting Fascism pod welcomes Sarah Myers West, "who lays out why #AI, as it's currently structured, is all about the consolidation of power among a handful of #oligarchs, but also how that's not how it needs to be."
(v. her co-authored piece, "The Great AI Grift": https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/ai-crony-capitalism-grift/)
#tech #artificialIntelligence #BigTech #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs
Grimes calls AI "more influential than Jesus" — and also "the most dangerous thing coming."
She warns about military AI, names OpenAI and Grok as particularly risky, and criticizes Silicon Valley's pursuit of a "digital god."
Her new album Psy Opera is mostly human-made — except one track, "DeepSeek," with lyrics by open-source DeepSeek.
She backs decentralized AI, not lab control.
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