The media-tech war has gone on long enough. Stop fighting each other — it's self-reproducing noise. Keep your respective guns trained on the alien threat.
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Replying to @generativist
what if coronavirus as an excuse for both terrifying and deeply stupidly implemented mass surveillance is the alien threat, though
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Replying to @faineg
The expansion of surveillance terrifies me. So does absence of high-fidelity tracing. I have no answer. But I mostly think we'll get better results if the people who worry about the latter are working with the people who worry about the former. So I want to build brides.
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Replying to @generativist
I’m working on that, but the tech people really do need to realize that the privacy people have *very* legitimate fears and aren’t just being hysterical.
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Replying to @faineg
I agree with that 100%. I have no answers. My strategy lately has been *trying* to shift my amplification weight towards ppl who get it (and other things) that aren't in my in-group rather than on attacks. In a battle against tech optimism I think who gets ignored is predictable.
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Replying to @generativist
That makes sense. I’m largely focused on attacking because 1. Critique and improvement of disaster tech from an ethical perspective is what I do professionally in both research and writing work (and have been for years) BUT we do need focus/praise for not fucking up
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Replying to @faineg @generativist
And honestly I still feel that there’s a major issue with not-well informed reporters very credulously repeating totally BS tech claims around pandemic response without critiquing them or interrogating them (this is a huge issue with drones right now)
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Replying to @faineg
I guess OP didn't really have you in mind. It's *literally* what you work on, so it's high-signal stuff. And the breathless stuff is useless filler. "Tech got it right!" Okay but their info env did the heavy lifting though. Don't extrapolate too much?
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Replying to @generativist
The breathless filler is genuinely terrifying in that it leads people towards false technological hope - all the way up to Trump thinking that Silicon Valley will invent Uber ventilators or whatever because Jared Kushner said a thing
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Yea. E.g. my parents yesterday told me, "did you hear what Elon musk did?" and my response was (to them), "right, fuck elon musk."
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