Strypey

After decades of being involved in tech freedom movements, it's really bizarre to hear people still talking about tech as if it's separate from politics;

https://nz-tech-podcast.captivate.fm/

Even with the merger of state and tech-corporate power going on ... well ... all around in the world, and even with the acquisition and asset stripping of the news media. These professionals still think it makes sense to talk about tech as if it's just another business. Like installing kitchens or selling linen.

WTF?!

Mar 7, 2025 at 3:08amWeb
Show threadStrypeyMar 7, 2025

"... companies like Uber typically want to grab and hold as much data as they can. When, in 1975, [Stafford] Beer argued that 'information is a national resource', he was ahead of his time in treating the question of ownership—just who gets to own the means of data production, not to mention the data?—as a political issue that cannot be reduced to its technological dimensions."

#EvegenyMorozov, 2014

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machine

#data #TheNewOil #TechIsPolitical

The Socialist Origins of Big Data

Evgeny Morozov on how the ideas behind Project Cybersyn, a futuristic experiment in cybernetics from nineteen-seventies Chile, still shapes technology.

The New Yorker