Recs if you like Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass...
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?
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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*.
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big tech is bad, actually
tools to understand and fight for justice in an online world owned and dominated by the ruling class
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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.
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anthropology reads
general anthropology books! i haven’t read a good chunk of these, but they’ve been recommended for the list!!
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