Mastodawn

“people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/03/17/people-will-come-to-love-their-oppression-to-adore-the-technologies-that-undo-their-capacities-to-think/ #adore #aldousHuxley #book #capacities #CommunicationMediaStudies #love #MassMedia #MassMediaInfluence #MassMediaUnitedStates #Massenmedien #MeDiasETatsUnis #MeDiasInfluence #MoviesTV #music #neilPostman #OFfentlicheMeinung #oppression #people #PerformingArts #PerformingArtsTelevisionHistoryCriticism #PoliticalSciencePoliticalProcessMediaInternet #politics #quote #SocialScience #SocialScienceMediaStudies #SociologyReference #technologies #think #TVHistoryCriticism #undo #unitedStates #USA #willComeTo

bsmall2 Mar 10

This came to mind while wondering at the AI (Salami) PR onslaught in Japan. Quite the Fad: Fast Fashion!?!??
> As I write (in fact, it is the reason why I write), the United States is the only culture to have become a Technopoly. It is a young Technopoly, and we can assume that it wishes not merely to have been the first but to remain the most highly developed. Therefore, it watches with a careful eye Japan and several European nations that are striving to become Technopolies as well.
#NeilPostman #Technopoly #JapanAsTechnopoly #AIFad #AISalami

bsmall2 Mar 8

> When Futurism reached out to the Pentagon regarding the use of AI in recent military operations — specifically the targeting of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school — we were referred to US CENTCOM, one of eleven unified commands under the Pentagon’s umbrella.
> “We have nothing for you on this at this time,” #CENTCOM said.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-ai-claude-bombing-elementary-school
#SalamiMilitary #AITargeting #PentagonAI #NeilPostman's (?maybe? ) #AgenticShift comes to mind..
/HT @jonny via @hacks4pancakes

Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target

Did the US military use Anthropic's Claude to select targets in its weekend operations in Iran, with devastating results?

Futurism

jobo Mar 8

#Medienkritik
Wie #NeilPostman (*8. März 1931) seiner Zeit vorausdachte

Mit dem #Buch „#Wir_amüsieren_uns_zu_Tode“ wurde Neil #Postman #weltweit bekannt. Er vertrat die #These, dass das #Fernsehen die #Urteilsbildung der #Gesellschaft #gefährde und sie #orientierungslos mache. Heute wirken seine #Gedanken #aktueller denn je.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/neil-postman-medienwissenschaftler-medienkritik-100.html

#Kalenderblatt

„Wir amüsieren uns zu Tode“: Neil Postmans Medienkritik ist aktueller denn je

Mit dem Buch „Wir amüsieren uns zu Tode“ wurde der Medienkritiker Neil Postman weltweit bekannt. Heute wirken seine Gedanken aktueller denn je.

Deutschlandfunk

Richard Rathe Mar 8

I friend sent me a clipping with this #quote...

"Ignorance now rules America. Not the simple, if somewhat innocent ignorance that comes from an absence of knowledge, but a malicious ignorance forged on the arrogance of refusing to think hard about an issue." -- Henry Giroux (The Terror of the Unforeseen)

I was unfamiliar with both the book and the author. His bibliography reminds me a bit of #NeilPostman.

#HenryGiroux #Book Willful #Ignorance of #America & #Americans

everton137 Feb 7

I just read this excellent article on the Fediverse by @_elena. It clearly outlines some of its advantages and uses good analogies, but also discusses some of the challenges. It's worth reading!

https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-new-way-to-describe-the-fediverse-and-its-opposition-to-big-tech/

#SocialMedia #Fediverse #BigTech #Decentralization #NeilPostman

A new way to describe the Fediverse and its opposition to Big Tech

I may have finally found a compelling, accessible way to describe the Fediverse - and make it appealing to people not familiar with it.

Elena Rossini

RoundSparrow Feb 5

It isn't a dozen clowns in the #WhiteHouse

It is 300 million clowns in a nation who clown around on social media and have no self-awareness via #NeilPostman /\

BenjaminK Dec 23

Often I feel the solutions to our current problems lie at least 30 years ago. Here is Neil postman in the 90s explaining his rules for assessing technology, brilliant and funny.

https://youtu.be/hlrv7DIHllE

#neilpostman #technology #tech #genai

College Lecture Series - Neil Postman - "The Surrender of Culture to Technology"

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N-gated Hacker News Dec 21

🎭 Oh, so you're not just tired, you're in an existential crisis! 🤔 Thanks, Neil, for reminding us that our mundane struggles are actually just a lack of cosmic purpose. 🌌 Because clearly, it's not the endless Zoom calls or late-night emails, but a Nietzschean void that's leaving us unfulfilled. 🌀
https://neilthanedar.com/youre-not-burnt-out-youre-existentially-starving/ #existentialcrisis #cosmicpurpose #nihilism #modernstruggles #NeilPostman #Zoomfatigue #HackerNews #ngated

You're Not Burnt Out. You're Existentially Starving. - Neil Thanedar

“Those who have a ‘Why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘How’.” ― Viktor Frankl quoting Friedrich Nietzsche, Man’s Search for Meaning Let me guess: Viktor Frankl calls this feeling the “existential vacuum” in his famous book Man’s Search for Meaning. Frankl was a psychologist who survived the Holocaust, and in this book heContinue reading "You’re Not Burnt Out. You’re Existentially Starving."

Neil Thanedar

RoundSparrow Dec 6

#RFP22 #FWakeSports #FWakeSportsMentality
#NeilPostmanWasRight1985 #AmusingOurselvesZombies /\
#Sports #Trump #MAGA #FWakeFIFA #FWakeNFL

Donald Trump #TheApprentice #RealityTV entertainer knows what people in USA will not face. New York #Manhattan #NYU media ecology of #NFL sports #HDTV -- #NeilPostman

https://old.reddit.com/r/sports/comments/1pfc5x2/president_donald_trump_wants_the_nfl_to_change/