Dominique Rethans

moved to @rethans.bsky.social

[Dominique Rethans @d_rethans]

A lack of nuance built on ignorance. Complete misrepresentation of the class struggle that actually took place. See @bcmerchant’s #bloodinthemachine or even Pynchon’s essay “Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?”

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The Luddites had the romance and the whiff of doomed tragedy, but ultimately they did not have power to prevent the widespread adoption of technology. We explain why https://t.co/BW1r64OKbY

[Dominique Rethans @d_rethans]

@kvtp11 Sayz the lead singer of the vomitones, but the audience has already compensated in anticipation.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Dark money, anonymous companies, and secretive elites with hidden wealth aren’t limited to distant dictatorships on palm-fringed islands. They’re here in America, now—and they’re enabling democracy’s decay, @anneapplebaum and @peterpomeranzev explain: https://t.co/robbmQnDDs

[Jonathan Birch @birchlse]

🦀🐝🧠🤖 How should we make decisions when faced with systems of uncertain sentience? My new book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI is available online for free at https://t.co/PXter8pb9f. Please download it! Just click on PDF to get a PDF of the whole book. Individual chapters are also available as PDFs - just click on whichever chapters you want. The book is completely free to everyone and I'm grateful for all shares and forwards.

[Dominique Rethans @d_rethans]

@doctorow @bcmerchant Thanks, you nailed that one already I see now….

[Dominique Rethans @d_rethans]

@AimeTim Thanks!

[Dominique Rethans @d_rethans]

#Zeitgeist

[moe tkacik @moetkacik]

Would Boeing murder a whistleblower? Before this month I'd have said it depends. I didn't think Boeing would kill a middle manager who never worked on the 737 Max & left in 2017.

What surprised me was how many more informed observers felt Boeing...might
https://t.co/eiBwfg3C8N

[Eric Beinhocker @EricBeinhocker]

On Apr 25 my brilliant @INETOxford colleague Doyne Farmer will publish his book Making Sense of Chaos, a powerful call for why the world needs complexity economics. Here's a sneak preview https://t.co/KbKcfTRIRb

[Dominique Rethans @d_rethans]

@PaulvdVijver @KuiperComp @janrotmans Dank!

[Dominique Rethans @d_rethans]

@vtchakarova Autism prevails

[Dominique Rethans @d_rethans]

#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #Cities - the two most optmistic scenarios. Imagine high-income and upper middle-income countries failing to meet targets... #whiteswan https://t.co/RXPmyjqNrJ

[Dominique Rethans @d_rethans]

@waitbutwhy Why are you not moving to #mastodon ?

[William Gibson @GreatDismal]

If this is for real, fuck an actual duck.

[Dominique Rethans @d_rethans]

@janduffhues @ErrikB Ja, dat helpt idd!

[Dominique Rethans @d_rethans]

Time to acknowledge that a privately owned tool for a public conversation poses an illogical concentration of power, which is ultimately unacceptable. Hope to continue the conversation on @Mastodon

https://t.co/EM7lmbrLDn