"... I keep coming back to this feeling that we're existing on this very thin membrane over ... just an ocean of tears. And, I've got more courage to go there and touch it, but it's ... there's so much grief!"
#DouglasRushkoff (@Rushkoff), 2025
#DouglasRushkoff
"By leaving politics out [of the psychedelics movement] we just got co-opted by the worst of the worst. Same with the net, it's like we followed John Barlow; 'governments stay away, we don't need you', and it's like 'oh no, the corporations took over'."
#DouglasRushkoff, 2025
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/331-liana-gillooly
Barlow was responding to the kind of wrongheaded attempts at net regulation we've seen so many times recently; link taxes, youth bans, etc.
(1/3)
#Libro #Tecnología #DouglasRushkoff
La supervivencia de los más ricos : fantasías escapistas de los milmillonarios tecnológicos - Douglas Rushkoff
En ‘La supervivencia de los mas ricos’, Rushkoff rastrea los orígenes de The Mindset en la ciencia y la tecnología hasta su expresión actual en las misiones a Marte, los búnkeres insulares, el futurismo de la IA y el metaverso. En una docena de capítulos urgentes y apasionantes, se enfrenta al utopismo tecnológico, a la informatización de todas las interacciones humanas y a la explotación de esos datos por parte de las empresas. A través de personajes fascinantes -programadores expertos que quieren rehacer el mundo desde cero como si rediseñaran un videojuego y banqueros que vuelven de Burning Man convencidos de que el capitalismo incentivado es la solución a los desastres medioambientales- Rushkoff explica por qué quienes tienen más poder para cambiar nuestra trayectoria actual no tienen interés en hacerlo. Y muestra cómo las recientes formas de rebelión contra la corriente dominante -QAnon, por ejemplo, o las acciones meme- refuerzan el mismo orden destructivo. Esta alucinante obra de análisis social nos muestra cómo trascender el paisaje creado por The Mindset -un mundo vivo con algoritmos e inteligencias que recompensan activamente nuestras tendencias más egoístas- y redescubrir la comunidad, la ayuda mutua y la interdependencia humana. En una conclusión atronadora, ‘La supervivencia de los más ricos’ sostiene que la única forma de sobrevivir a la catástrofe que se avecina es asegurarse de que no se produzca en primer lugar.
DD: https://www.mediafire.com/file/4yir49jcm8mgwq1/La+supervivencia+de+los+mas+ricos_+(1946).zip/file
"I don't mind even people thinking of ["AI"] as conscious entities. Is there a problem if we take the metaphor literally and think of them as ... sort of ... children, or a next generation of life that we're raising?"
#DouglasRushkoff, 2025
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/325-de-kai
Ummm ... *yes*! The same problem as thinking of Android devices as children, or the next evolution of life. It's delusional nonsense, and it leads to huge category errors in the way we understand the tech. See above.
"Now, I’m not saying we shouldn’t do what we can to slow or stop all this bad shit from happening. But we shouldn’t act as if this is a surprise. As if now is somehow a game-changing pivot moment. A whole lot of us have been shouting from the rooftops for a whole long time while this incremental descent into madness was occurring, and it goes much deeper and longer than Donald Trump and America’s technocratic extremists."
Douglas @Rushkoff, 2025
@3sat
Ich glaub, so kann man es zusammenfassen:
"Interessant dass Sie eine gegebene soziale Realität als Utopie bezeichnen. Ist es eine #Utopie, dass sich Menschen in die Augen sehen und sich unterhalten? So war die Welt früher." Aber ja, dann kam das #Internet, und es wurde kommerzialisiert, und... "Wir haben ein iPhone, kein wePhone." #DouglasRushkoff
“..new mechanisms for forging bonds and cooperation between people are almost inevitably turned against those ends. Language that could inform is instead used to lie. Money that could promote trade is instead hoarded by the wealthy. Education that could expand workers’ minds is instead used to make them more efficient human resources.”
—Douglas Rushkoff, Team Human
#douglasrushkoff #rushkoff
—Douglas Rushkoff, Team Human
#douglasrushkoff #rushkoff
“The first step toward reversing our predicament is to recognize that being human is a team sport. We cannot be fully human alone. Anything that brings us together fosters our humanity. Likewise, anything that separates us makes us less human, and less able to exercise our individual or collective will.”
—Douglas Rushkoff, Team Human
#douglasrushkoff #rushkoff #teamhuman
—Douglas Rushkoff, Team Human
#douglasrushkoff #rushkoff #teamhuman
Das #Mindset der #US-#Techmilliardäre begegnet uns seit der Wahl von #DonaldTrump tagtäglich. Kaum einer kann jedoch so profund darüber Auskunft geben wie #DouglasRushkoff, ein echter #Internetpionier.
#WolframEilenberger interviewt ihn in einer #SternstundePhilosophie des #SRF - absolut sehenswert.
>#DouglasRushkoff – das Mindset der Tech-Milliardäre | Sternstunde Philosophie<
Das #Menschenbild der
#Entfremdung & des Niedergangs
Zur Wesenhaftigkeit des Sozialen und der #Kulturethymologie von KI und was dies mit Donald #Trump zu tun hat
Naja, was soll auch dabei rauskommen, wenn wir versuchten, die Welt und ihre Geschicke nach Exceltabellen und Programmcodes auszurichten und zu glauben, das würde schon alles richten […]
Mehr: https://tinyurl.com/mtdfwfmd
(Übersetzung: Stephan Gebauer)
#lesewinter #sachbuch #douglasrushkoff #suhrkamp #techmilliardäre #geld #mindset #demokratie #zukunft #kapitalismus #polbil #lesen #leselust #leseratte #bücher
"What happened - and partly as a result of the marketing of identity politics, by people who were exploiting the gender problem and race problems and all that for political and capitalist ends... really consumerist ends - they've kind of bastardised self and community derived notions of identity.
It's led to... identity as a performance, rather than identity as a state of being. As your natural moment to moment expression."
#DouglasRushkoff, 2024
View from the Amazon
Survival of the richest: Trump, climate and the logic of the doomsday bunker by
Jonathan Watts, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/14/survival-of-the-richest-trump-climate-and-the-logic-of-the-doomsday-bunker
Same title as #DouglasRushkoff 's book, https://wwnorton.com/books/survival-of-the-richest/about-the-book/description
Hurrah! Der #SurkampVerlag bringt endlich »Survival of the Richest« (2022 / Dt. v. Stephan Gebauer 2025) von #DouglasRushkoff von #TeamHuman bei uns auf den Markt. Eins der wichtigsten Bücher um nachzuvollziehen, was eigentlich global abgeht.
Erscheint Ende Februar 2025.
Zur Verlags-Seite: https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/douglas-rushkoff-survival-of-the-richest-t-9783518029992
"OK, so we have this free-flowing media space. We've deconstructed it, we've demystified it, right, and we have a DIY media. Well, a couple of things happened to change all that. Some of them fine things, some of them kind of weird things.
It's very easy to say 'they' took it away from us, because 'they' wanted to make money off this thing. 'They' were all mean. But 'they' is us, finally."
Douglas Rushkoff, #DisinfoCon, 2000
The Immortality Hustle
“Silicon Valley’s quest to achieve eternal life is pure quackery. But it reveals much about the antidemocratic pathologies of the global superrich.”
#death #longevity #SiliconValley #peterthiel
#musk #elonmusk #Bezos #DouglasRushkoff
https://jacobin.com/2023/10/the-immortality-hustle
Sonntag hat man vielleicht Zeit für einen längeren Beitrag zu hören, wenn man besser organisiert ist als ich, der die Woche erst aufarbeiten muss, müsste.
Fängt gut an, endet aber auch mit #guteFrage - wo hört das mit Nettigkeit bloss auf, wenn man erstmal damit anfängt?!
Hier die Antwort.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/die-angst-der-tech-milliardaere-vor-ihrem-personal-100.html
#dlf #gesellschaft #DouglasRushkoff #frag #solidarity #Solidarität #bigtech #Milliardäre #superreiche #neoliberalismus #Liberalismus #libertär #Soziologie #sozialpsychologie
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