The limited resources of the overstretched #Left are wasted, either on finding ways of caging the #machine (impossible), domesticating it (delusional), or arguing with others on the Left that the machine isn't necessary (Sisyphean).

#AI #Musk #degrowth #technology #innovation #technooptimism

https://thatmarta.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/magical-thinking/

🔮 On techno-optimism
by Ali Alkhatib
@ali-alkhatib.com @ali

#TechnoOptimism #AI #theUncannyPessimismOfTechnoOptimism

https://ali-alkhatib.com/blog/techno-fatalism

A very good read, especially for the techies.

Onya, Harry - may the force be with you!

https://nym.com/blog/anti-palantir-manifesto

#surveillance #SurveillancCapitalism #technoOptimism #ethics

Aurora Gomez @tunubesecamirio urges us to leave #TechnoOptimism behind, in the discussion about big data centres with empty promises to "create jobs" and to solve the electricity and water needs. We already know that these promises are false. In reality people loose their land, ecosystems die because of lack of (good) water. We have seen this happen in many places around the world.

These data centres are generally used for extractive data business models and not rrally for the local economy.

Session: Communities resisting #datacentres also with Paola Ricaurte and Agustí Emperador @ecologistas

At #msc26 #mobilesocialcongress2026 at @canodrom

Conf: “Technological Optimism in 1970s and 1980s Popular Culture: Innovation, Creativity, Prosperity, and Freedom”

Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz, 15-17 April 2026

The conference programme and further information is available at its website: https://ieg-dhr.github.io/techno_optimism/

Because space is limited, we ask that those who are interested in attending register by sending a brief e-mail to [email protected] by 25. March 2026.

#DHLab_IEG #Histodons #TechnoOptimism

This is a brilliant video by Adam Neely on #GenerativeAI in #music, that takes a sharp turn (somewhat expectedly) towards an analysis of the machinations of #TechnoOptimism, #EffectiveAccelerationism, and their undeniable connection to #Fascism. It is a long one and has a high information density but it is one of the best video essays I've seen in quite a while. If you care about music and the arts — or just knowing you fascist enemy: this one is for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk

My problem with optimism, or, rather, #TechnoOptimism, is that it's always framed with the message "if you give the people who control your lives a chance, it'll all work out."

That's not optimism. That submission.

#Technocrat