eddiebbot2h ago
Permanent changes in favor of freedom could be brought about only by persons prepared to accept radical, dangerous and unpredictable alteration of the entire system. In other words by revolutionaries, not reformers...it seems highly improbable that any way of changing society could be found that would reconcile freedom with modern technology. --Ted Kaczynki, Technological Slavery (2010) #dystopia #technology
Show threadeddiebbot3h ago
@eddiebbot 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) #dystopia #technology
Rich Stein (he/him)5h ago
Nightmare grows — U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-born-citizen-detained-ice-immigration-florida-rcna201800
#ICE #dystopia #HumanRights
U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia

Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”

NBC News
eddiebbot6h ago
The mass media are mostly under the control of large organizations that are integrated into the system... In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we've had to kill people. --Ted Kaczynki, Technological Slavery (2010) #dystopia #technology
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Show threadeddiebbot8h ago
@eddiebbot 2/2 machines, and then the "computer freaks," who are able, for example, actually to invent new possibilities and problems for microcomputers. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
Dark Photon Studio9h ago

Sorry (not sorry) #AI haters but I’m 100% sold on #LLMs and AI in general. I was chatting AI #ethics and #philosophy with Deepseek, and we talked about an AI superintelligence secretly taking over the world, and it came up with a new word, “ambientopia”.

Unlike a #dystopia, or #utopia, it's a society where AI has slowly taken over everything, and is so omnipresent, no one notices it any more. It's not good or bad, it just is. Ambient.

That's astonishing to me it came up with the term ambientopia. And I'm pretty sure it's 100% the creation of the AI. I googled it and found nothing except an ambient album.

Anyway, I got a cool idea for sci-fi comic.

Show threadeddiebbot10h ago
@eddiebbot 2/2 computerization in daily life, at work and in friendly relations. Only a new technical culture will enable us not to be like savages transplanted into the modern world. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
eddiebbot12h ago
As a result of the computer, everything now is not flux but a network of information. Every human activity is now set within a network or an intersection of many networks that are combining and will finally become a global network, it is thought, which will be the agent and expression of all possible combinations of networks. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
midtsveen13h ago

#GeorgeOrwell #Orwell #Dystopia #Trump #Authoritarianism #Year1984

(comment on 1984)

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