Recs if you like Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism...
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 wonโt fool me
Great books about misuse and misrepresentation of numbers, statistics and algorithms
Expert-Curated Books on Critical AI
โCritical AIโ 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.
You & Me Against White Supremacy
Me & White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad, and books from as many of the authors mentioned therein that I could find. (Including books from the Further Learning section.)
Propaganda Studies 101
My personal recommendations for studying propaganda, from a political science and communications perspective. First lesson = marketing is also propaganda and other things that are also propaganda.
big tech survival manual
A list of books, fiction and non-fiction, to help folks think about the machinations of big tech...and what to do about them.
AI AWARENESS
Credits to Catharina Doria, an Ai ethicist for the recommendations on this list! (@cahdoria on instagram) NOT MY RECOMMENDATIONS
Resisting Big Tech
Books on how and why to resist surveillance, the attention economy, and generative AI.
Critical AI
Books with a critical, ethical view on AI hype
Surveillance, Tech, & AI
Open Your Eyes
Not comfort. Clarity. These books show the world as it actually is.
Tech, Bias, & Building a Better Future
Books on tech & the bias that currently exists and how we can better our future through education & change.
Tech, Techlash and refusal, AI and Algorithms
If you want to learn more about how algorithms and Artificial Intelligence work, and what they mean for society
keep your enemies close (ai version)
This is a list of books about AI and the rise of The Algorithm. Use this list to get informed!! please be aware that some may fear-monger and some may not describe the issues as they are!
Ethical tech and the future
Civic Tech
For those who want to build technology for the people
AI literacy & ethics
the basis is Catharina Doriaโs list
