bkimMar 4
JA Westenberg

The future is undetermined, the stakes are enormous, and the work is ours to do.

That's the most optimistic thing I can imagine.

The future is still up for grabs.

So grab it.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/a-soft-landing-manual-for-the-second-gilded-age/

A soft-landing manual for the second gilded age

By the summer of 1945, West Berlin had been reduced to rubble. Allied bombing, the Soviet ground assault and Hitler's insistence on Götterdämmerung had destroyed roughly a third of the city's buildings and left most of the rest damaged. There was no functioning government, no reliable electricity, no clean water

Westenberg.
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Show threadbitzeroMar 3
@Daojoan
Definitely *this*
Show threadzoolMar 3

@Daojoan you probably don't want the gut reaction that defaulting into AI inevitability is weakening the otherwise strong narrative - "The AI transition is going to eliminate and transform millions of jobs", "When AI displaces workers at scale" etc.

Spoken from a (UK) setting where "government-funded compute clusters, open-source foundation models, and public research institutions" are already captive to oligopoly

"If you believe *the future is already determined*, you don't organize" ...

Show threadWarner CrockerMar 3
@Daojoan Helluva piece.