it's a strange time to promote a book, but 'Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism' is out today. thanks to @RepeaterBooks for publishing it, and to @NaomiAKlein, @doctorow, @HelenHester and @n_srnck for their kind words https://t.co/sQJmCGuJUB
"Spending one’s brief time on this mortal coil trying to convince companies to fire their customer support teams and replace them with AI voice agents is not the act of a grounded person, in touch with their humanity." — @dellsystem
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I disagree with Timothee Chalamet about opera (crowd cheers), because all art is essentially bad (crowd boos), in the Culture Industry sense! (crowd cheers) except for one medium, which encompasses all previous forms (crowd nodding expectantly), “gaming” (booing intensifies)
HOT TAKE: nobody in 1975 needed a budget app, a financial coach, and a side hustle to afford a two bedroom apartment. this isn’t a personal finance problem. it’s a wage theft problem.
This may hurt in the short term, but these are small sacrifices to make in order to make the labor market, entertainment, and countless other things far worse for the benefit of about 800 of the most misanthropic and insecure people to ever live
Tech companies used to portray themselves as do-gooders. But as Palintir's new billboard suggests, their commitment to domination was there all along. Welcome to the Great Tech Vibe Shift — our most recent Tech Billboard Decoder column by @dellsystem. https://t.co/SsgsGdpzMz
I don’t know a single person who believes the future is going to be better than the past, and the reason is the spread of this kind of psychocapitalist technofascist ideology. the project of humanity in the 21st century should be ridding the world of it by any means necessary.