Recs if you like Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture...
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
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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.
social media is turning my brain to mush
exactly as the title says - i need to spend more time off social media. these books discuss the negative side effects of spending excessive time online, and cover the importance in stopping social media addiction.
Resisting Big Tech
Books on how and why to resist surveillance, the attention economy, and generative AI.
Surveillance, Tech, & AI
anticonsumption for consumers ♻️
the evils of marketing and corporations, and how to consume smarter
