Recs if you like Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor...

ANTI: fascism, ai, nfts, Big Tech, billionaires, surveillance states, optimization, algorithms, bot farms, technofeudalism, enshittification, exploitation, extractionism, planned obsolescence PRO: organized labor, punk, analog, solidarity, free speech, friction, degrowth, experimentation, right to privacy, right to repair, diy, material process, mutual aid, ecological living, the human hand, the human mind

Looking for fiction? Check out The Big Bad Luddite Novel*.

Did y'all know that Google removed "don't be evil" from its code of conduct?

"Technological progress" is not some magic solution that will benefit all of humanity, but rather a tool to accelerate accumulation of wealth for billonaires, environmental destruction, and intensification of surveillance and control. Is your life better because students don't learn to write essays anymore, incels can make deepfake nudes of anyone, and impoverished communities lose access to water and power?

tools to understand and fight for justice in an online world owned and dominated by the ruling class

Investigating the physical reality of the internet. This reading list explores the material spaces, energy demands, and unseen infrastructure that make digital connectivity possible.

AI, Technofeudalism, Big Data, & Algorithmic Landscapes

Great books about misuse and misrepresentation of numbers, statistics and algorithms

Books on tech & the bias that currently exists and how we can better our future through education & change.

Books covering Black history, Blackness, and systemic racism without the whitewashing and sanitization.

Books focused on poverty, workers' rights, and the class war that the ultra wealthy is waging on the rest of us.

Companies and industries that suck and why life is miserable because of them.