Recs if you like Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor...
your honor, big tech is literally evil
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?
The Big Bad Luddite List
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*.
big tech is bad, actually
tools to understand and fight for justice in an online world owned and dominated by the ruling class
Digital Geographies
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
girl math or how numbers won’t fool me
Great books about misuse and misrepresentation of numbers, statistics and algorithms
Expert-Curated Books on Critical AI
‘Critical AI’ is a growing field that examines the societal, ethical, and cultural implications of AI.
It involves evaluating, questioning, and understanding AI's limitations and risks, including power structures, bias, and environmental impacts.
Selected from a collection curated by Prof. Dr. Dagmar Monett, Head of the Computer Science Department at HWR Berlin. Full list here.
Tech, Bias, & Building a Better Future
Books on tech & the bias that currently exists and how we can better our future through education & change.
Technology and You
Black History, But It’s Not Bullsh*t
Books covering Black history, Blackness, and systemic racism without the whitewashing and sanitization.
Ethical tech and the future
No War But Class War
Books focused on poverty, workers' rights, and the class war that the ultra wealthy is waging on the rest of us.
Capitalism Ruins Everything
Companies and industries that suck and why life is miserable because of them.
