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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I mean, it’s possible too that people just feel exploited and extracted and drained. We are the natural resource; tech wouldn’t exist without our curiosity & appetite for novelty. It’s not like tech is solving anything relevant that we need — this is more apparent now than ever.
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I may be disillusioned, but with all due respect to the supportive roles tech has played in the crisis — agreed — people are *so* deeply disillusioned that they’re quitting their jobs, the economy is propped up by govt handouts, and covid isn’t even nearly over. But yes, tech 1/2
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