Feels like tech backlash 2.0 is starting up, a qualitatively different line of attack/critique that features a different kind of critic launching a different variety of hostile attack 🤔
This isn't the Morozov/Roose type attacks.
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Can't put my finger on it, but it isn't the old "arrogant aspie techbros trying to make an app for everything, who need to study humanities and learn to kiss my ass."
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One legible strain is bad faith deployment of climate concerns as an anti-billionaire-ressentiment weapon. Another is regulation attempts now growing up. But the thing I'm sensing is more like illegible background gaslighting beyond those things.
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the charismatic megafauna big 5 game species of africa: lion, leopard, cape buffalo, rhino, elephant
big 5 charismatic mega-emitters: nuclear power,* bitcoin, billionaire space flights, plastic waste, cheap things made in china
* this is called a "joke"
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Thing I'm sensing has more of a retreat/boycott/cozyweb feel, and pointedly trying to find re-enchantment in things that seem secure from being app-ified and shoved under the API. A kind of going-boneless passive resistance. Almost Gandhian. Politically weaponized waldenponding
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The new thing is not just against SV culture and VCs and entrepreneurs and new money. It feels somewhat anti-tech (small t)
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One of the things little known outside India is that Gandhi was a proper luddite, kinda Jeffersonian-agrarian. He almost blocked India from industrializing. Luckily Nehru and others realized you can't run a nation in the 20th century using medieval spinning wheels
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Hmm, techlash 2.0 might simply be passive aggressive muttering more than any energized coherent thing
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NFTs is a sideshow and it has that non-adversarial quality because the artists are making some money for once :D
Usually the artists are what make the critics gain any attention at all, because they pretty up bad arguments with good art
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i forgot about "tech people need to study the humanities" that was a funny discourse
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It's still kinda going on, but now enough people have had it pointed out to them that for eg. peter thiel studied philosophy and the palantir guy did too and buzzfeed was a critical theory guy, so they've shut up a bit because all the examples prove the opposite of their point 🤣
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Is it a shift to "tech must be restrained simply because it's big/powerful" from "we need to put the right people at the wheel"?



