Recs if you like Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It...
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
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.
Corporate Scandals
Nonfiction accounts of companies doing horrible things, with an emphasis on exposing/analyzing the decisions and processes that led up to catastrophe. Mainly focused on specific incidents/companies rather than books describing general industry patterns. I've read some books on this list, others are TBR. Recs welcome!
AI AWARENESS
Credits to Catharina Doria, an Ai ethicist for the recommendations on this list! (@cahdoria on instagram) NOT MY RECOMMENDATIONS
Challenging Big Tech
Critical thinking on Big Tech’s impact on economy and society. Only putting in good books that I’ve read here, so watch this space!
open your eyes
Not comfort. Clarity. These books show the world as it actually is.
Non-boring non-fiction
As someone who voraciously reads fiction, getting interested in non-fic is a bit of a slog. Does that describe you? Fantastic! Here are non-fic books that I found page-turning, compelling, and interesting.
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
Tech bro target practice
Books that point the gun at tech bros and pull the trigger
