#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.” '

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19188391-muskism-its-roots-nature-and-how-to-fight-it-a-conversation-with-quinn-slobodian-and-ben-tarnoff

#Musk #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs #books @bookstodon

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."

https://www.redcircle.com/shows/de5dbe33-63b3-4d3e-a545-07791baa168c/ep/ff3fc067-f081-427b-82f7-9e635533c95d

(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

"We have come to this cultural agreement that convenience is so important that it trumps everything else, forgetting that anything that matters in life is inconvenient [...] I think we should re-value difficulty, overcoming difficulty, and take pleasure in gaining mastery, because it is a form of empowerment"

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #CarissaVéliz, author of #Prophecy

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18709720-bullshit-and-infinity-why-ai-cannot-predict-anything-a-conversation-with-carissa-veliz

#AI #tech #artificialIntelligence #techCriticism #techFutures #BigTech #books @bookstodon

Doug Henwood welcomes #QuinnSlobodian and #BenTarnoff, authors of #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, to discuss "Elon’s world and what he wants to do to ours."

https://kpfa.org/episode/behind-the-news-april-23-2026/
#Musk #ElonMusk #AI #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techOligarchs #techFutures #Tesla #Neuralink #books @bookstodon

"Acclaimed journalist and '#EmpireOfAI' author #KarenHao sat down with award-winning writer #NaomiKlein for a conversation on the precarious #AI moment we find ourselves in."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1B__Efqacc

#artificialIntelligence #AGI #SamAltman #tech #BigTech #OpenAI #SiliconValley #surveillance #techFutures #technosolutionism #techWorkers #labour #books @bookstodon

"#Tech companies are racing to build thousands of huge #dataCenters to power the #artificialIntelligence revolution. To find the land they need, they are barreling into rural communities across the United States with the promise of good jobs. But not everyone is buying that pitch.

"Karen Weise, a technology correspondent for The New York Times, tells the story of one county pushing back against #BigTech."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4rcpcX06kc
#AI #techFutures #SiliconValley #dataCentres

Two firefighters suffered chemical burns in a #BoringCo. tunnel. Then the #Nevada Governor’s office got involved, and the penalties disappeared

https://fortune.com/2025/11/12/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnels-injuries-osha-citations-fines-rescinded-nevada-governor-office-documents-altered/
https://archive.ph/JUevh
#BoringCompany #tech #Musk #USpol #USpolitics #OSHA #cronyism #copinage #techfutures #techBros #techOligarchs #corruption

"Our cognitive disaster is unfolding as if it’s the way of the world, like sun-up over the horizon and the light that blankets the land — inevitable, irreversible, the nature of things. This may be so, given that bowing before the #tech god is inherent in industrial civilization, an expression of the fanatical worship of innovation that goes unquestioned in our society."

The internet made us stupid. #AI promises to make it worse

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-09-21/ai-artificial-intelligence-internet-e-bike-brain
#artificialIntelligence #techfutures

DAIR's First Anniversary - Dylan Baker, Nobody Owns Our Technological Future

https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/iRTqFhJHvcf5JXFTPGsNs5

#LARB Radio Hour | The Shit Show

"[H]ow #BigTech dreams – from iPhones to #socialMedia to #AI – have become nightmares.

"How did these decade-defining innovations end up making modern life feel sadder, lonelier, and scarier?"

#books discussed
⦁ @pluralistic's #Enshittification
⦁ Paul Kingsnorth’s #AgainstTheMachine

https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/the-shit-show/

#tech #technology #techFutures @bookstodon