Notices by Jonas (adoranten@tldr.nettime.org)

Surely, one is expected to see this a sign of the times…? #nofuture
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tb/112307795699033589

Context:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes

My own take: Longtermism was a vacuous intellectual movement to begin with. As with a lot of Silicon Valley-endorsed ideology, its primary function was a self-serving one, in practice; a fig leaf to legitimize accelerationism, hyper-scale monopolism and oligarchy.

@pettter For more examples of this principle, see the current fate of Patreon as well. 🤷♂️

@rasmusfleischer True!
Makes for a fun thought experiment though.

@rasmusfleischer A perhaps more interesting metric comes from earth system studies: According to my own rough estimates, extrapolating from readily available energy metrics, excess energy added into the global system – from oil alone – amounts to around 36,000 times the available energy from human bodily capacity of living humans. A drastic (yet logical) conclusion would be that without this excess energy from oil, the average person would be 36,000 times less well off. 🤷♂️

@rasmusfleischer Inter- and intraclass sadism has been the hallmark of British society throughout all of modernity, so this is anything but surprising…

@rasmusfleischer thanks!!