#AI #Boosterism refers to an outsized or uncritical enthusiasm for the benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
It typically emphasizes AI's potential to revolutionize society, boost productivity, and solve complex problems while downplaying or ignoring associated harms and limitations.
#History of the Duration of a #Day on #Earth : Medium
The #Art of Deciding What to #Care About : Misc
How #SocialMedia encourages the worst of #AI #Boosterism : Tech Review
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This sort of blandishment just pisses me off. Outlook knows that the number of ”productive" e-mails I have dealt with today, (i.e. not login codes and new account confirmations) could be counted on one hand.
Like, fuck off, Outlook – inbox zero here does *not* equate to “accomplishing a lot”. Your empty compliments are embarrassing us both.
Of course the government should be promoting the UK, but in doing so it should make a point of not adopting the style of Trump's "boosterism", a word as ugly as the rhetoric to which it refers.
Although boosterism excites Trump and his supporters, I doubt that it drives much investment into the USA; most businesses base these decisions on incentives and opportunities, not hyperbole. As far as exports are concerned, other countries will take the boosterism into account as part of a larger picture of US intentions regarding international trade, but I would guess that most potential purchasers of US goods and services will at best ignore the boosterism . In some markets and for some kinds of exports, such as those of the entertainment industry, association with "America First" could actually prove to be a handicap in the years to come.
Simon Case's praise for Trump's "impressive political theatre" in his show of signing executive orders both surprises and saddens me, coming as it does from the sometime head of the UK's civil service and a holder of a history doctorate. Does he not recognise that this political theatre was promoting one of Trump's ugliest and most dangerous ambitions, to rule by decree? Please let us not ape this authoritarian ugliness in the UK!
UK should learn from Donald Trump’s ‘boosterism’, Rachel Reeves says | Labour | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/25/uk-rachel-reeves-chancellor-economy-donald-trump
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Sir BOOST-a-lot.
Hashtags are also how people see stuff they're looking for, and how they find new stuff.
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This should be worth reading.
By Isaac Rose.
The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis - Repeater Books
https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-rentier-city-manchester-and-the-making-of-the-neoliberal-metropolis/
#AgglomerationFallacy #Boosterism #NeoliberalCity #Manchester
In cities across the world, gentrification and the housing crisis are facts of life. But how did we get to this point? And is there any way we can fight back? A good place to begin answering these questions is Manchester, England. Over the last thirty years, corporate developers, rentier capitalists and boosterist politicians have reshaped Manchester in their image, replacing its working-class communities, public spaces and affordable housing with skyscrapers, luxury developments and a private rental market that creates wealth for rentiers and impoverishes everybody else. The Rentier City traces this story, showing how it fits within the longer history of Manchester. In doing so unveils a larger story of the relationship between capital and our cities, between rentier and rentee, and gives us a blueprint of how fight back against rentier capitalism and take back control of the cities we live in.
Knowledge Zone
Mark Burton
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Jonathan Emmesedi
Dave Muth
Ollie Francis
Steady State Manchester
Stephen Sherman