Paris Marx
What does requiring everyone to become a personal brand on highly commercialized digital platforms do to how we communicate?
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Naomi Klein about her trip into the Mirror World of right-wing conspiracies, how they thrive online, and what it’s all doing to our politics.
Listen here: https://techwontsave.us/episode/201_how_the_mirror_world_distorts_our_reality_w_naomi_klein
Paris Marx
I want to believe @anildash, but I don’t see the nostalgic comparison between now and the early web.
Things are may be getting a little weirder, but the web is far more commercialized than it was then. Power shifts don’t mean redistribution, but new monopolists displacing the old.
Paris Marx
The end of low interest rates is showing us what the tech companies really built over the past 15 years and it’s nothing like what their PR hacks once promised.
Everything is more expensive, more invasive, and far less innovative or improved than they led us to believe.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/26/24015595/amazon-prime-video-ads-coming-january-29
Paris Marx
As Hyperloop One shuts down, we need to remember that the Hyperloop was never meant to be built.
Elon Musk’s goal was never to transform transportation for the masses, but to stop or delay high-speed rail from reaching North America. Sadly, he succeeded — and we all lost as a result. While the rest of the world moved forward, the US remains stuck in the past.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-hyperloop-was-always-a-scam
#tech #transport #transportation #train #hyperloop #elonmusk
Paris Marx
“AI is being used as form of 'shock doctrine', where the sense of urgency generated by an allegedly world-transforming technology is used as an opportunity to transform social systems without democratic debate.”
Paris Marx
It’s been a rough year for people who work in the video game industry. Even as companies were releasing incredibly successful titles, thousands of workers were being laid off.
I talked to @Nelsormensch to get his insights on why that happened and what it means for independent studios.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/this-year-for-the-games-industry
Paris Marx
🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨
After losing to Peter Thiel in last year’s contest, Elon Musk takes the title of WORST PERSON IN TECH 2023!
We only wish we could reward him with a one-way ticket to the sun 🚀☀️
Paris Marx
RADICALIZED IMBECILE vs FASCIST PUPPETMASTER
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Paris Marx
💥 FINAL FOUR 💥
We’ve reached the semi-finals. It’s time to choose who will head to the final round!
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Paris Marx
If you don’t know about Cybersyn, it’s time to change that. Back in 2021, I interviewed @edenmedina to learn all about it. She was directly involved in putting the exhibition together that I visited today!
https://techwontsave.us/episode/61_project_cybersyn_shows_all_tech_is_political_w_eden_medina
Paris Marx
Effective accelerationism is the latest ideology to grip Silicon Valley. It divides tech between the accelerationists and the doomers — and presents very real threats to the rest of us.
I spoke to @xriskology about the ideological evolution of the Valley through the TESCREAL ideologies to the e/acc craze.
Full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/198_how_effective_accelerationism_divides_silicon_valley_w_emile_torres
Paris Marx
Don’t mind me! I’m just overseeing the Chilean economy.
In all seriousness though, the Cybersyn exhibition at La Moneda Cultural Center in Santiago was so cool and I love that they rebuilt the operations room to get a feel for what could have been.
Paris Marx
🚨 ROUND 2 STARTS NOW 🚨
16 gone, but 16 remain. Who will progress to the next round and get one step closer to becoming the WORST PERSON IN TECH? You decide.
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Paris Marx
BREAKING: Trump University about to get a run for its money
Paris Marx
💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS! 💥
2023 is winding down, so it’s time to choose the WORST PERSON IN TECH!
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Paris Marx
Silicon Valley billionaires are drawing a line: you’re either a techno-optimist who won’t question them or an enemy they’re ready to fight.
In his new manifesto, Marc Andreessen embraces faith and fascism to distract from the harms the tech industry has caused and justify the power and wealth of the tech elite. It shows why a renewed Luddite movement is absolutely necessary.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-religion-of-techno-optimism
Paris Marx
The fallout is growing from Tesla’s continued refusal to sign a collective agreement with its Swedish mechanics.
On top of the solidarity strikes, one of Denmark’s largest pension funds is selling its $58 million stake in Tesla for refusing to respect the Nordic labor model.
Paris Marx
Bill Gates is lauded for his philanthropic work, but is the picture we get of him as the “good billionaire” really accurate?
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to @timschwab about the narrative we get about the Gates Foundation and how it uses charity to forward similar capitalist business models as Gates promoted at Microsoft.
https://techwontsave.us/episode/197_dont_praise_bill_gates_w_tim_schwab
Paris Marx
The folks over at the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation are awesome. They made a new website and as a result, some content was removed. I sent an email to see if they could restore Le Guin’s “A Rant About ‘Technology’” — and they did!
Go read it: https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology
Paris Marx
As Marc Andreessen fights AI regulations and touts the amazing future it will create, his venture firm a16z is investing in a company that knowingly allows users to generate images that “could be categorized as child pornography.”
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