RE: https://mastodon.social/@therealnews/115667789623491474
today in Fuck This Technofeudalist Dystopia: Adam Johnson covers how CNN is partnering with Kalshi, which lets you place bets on real world events like mass starvation. [Kalshi's two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military, natch]
@eddiebbot 2/2 and financial orientations and confidential communications depend. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
The Festival for narrative gamers is MONDAY! #ChooseWiselyFestival by @StudioEphua
Experience over 390 branching games and demos.
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#scifi #adventuregame #indiegame #storyrich #dystopia #videogame #pointandclick #gaming #ASkyFullOfGhosts
@eddiebbot 2/2 that they have exclusive practices. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
Those who have technical knowledge in any field have power. Those who do not have this technical knowledge have no power, even though they are eminent ministers or generals. For the latter are directly, strictly dependent on those around them that know the appropriate techniques, without whom they would be completely helpless. They are unable to reach any decisions without computers and technical experts. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
@eddiebbot 2/2 that makes us human. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
@eddiebbot 2/2 (1988) #dystopia #technology
To Kwa Wan (ๅ็็ฃ) Hong Kong
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@eddiebbot 2/2 that makes us human. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952) is set in a future where AI has taken all the jobs, leaving only engineers to maintain the AI and managers to manage the engineers.
It's not his most famous book, but it might be his most prescient.
technique is our environment, the new "nature" in which we live, the dominant factor, the system. I need not elaborate on its features: autonomy, unity, universality, totality, automatic growth, automation, causal progression, the absence of finality.13or need I discuss afresh the distinction between the technical system and the technical society. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
@eddiebbot 2/2 come so quickly that we have no time to get used to them. As soon as one begins to get used to some computer equipment, it has already changed.?????? --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
"A disaster waiting to happen" โ The privacy tech world reacts to the new Chat Control bill
The Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, and the Netherlands are still against the bill.
#ChatControl #EU #EuropeanUnion #privacy #surveillance #messaging #socialmedia #technology #dystopia
Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure โ cache wipe turns into mass deletion event as agent apologizes: โI am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cannot express how sorry I am"
#Google #AI #agenticAI #Antigravity #technology #enshittification #dystopia
@eddiebbot 2/2 and organizational infrastructure. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
Since the tragedy of 1994, Agency Division have weilded their authority over matters arcane with relative impunity. Enforcers like Vidcund Dรคrk, collectively known as the Men in Black, serve a single purpose - the absolute eradicaton of magic and those who would use it. This is not an uncommon goal - a group of rogue arcanists known as the Grey Angels have much the same outcome in mind. When a respected mathematics professor obtains a translated copy of the Pnakotic Manuscripts, the hunt is on to determine how he got hold of it. But soon, a bigger crisis unfolds - one that Agency Division canโt keep under wraps.
#readers #bookstodon #dystopia #urbanfantasy #adventure #action #thriller #series #books
@eddiebbot 2/2 personnel. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
