Two firefighters suffered chemical burns in a #BoringCo. tunnel. Then the #Nevada Governor’s office got involved, and the penalties disappeared
https://fortune.com/2025/11/12/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnels-injuries-osha-citations-fines-rescinded-nevada-governor-office-documents-altered/
https://archive.ph/JUevh
#BoringCompany #tech #Musk #USpol #USpolitics #OSHA #cronyism #copinage #techfutures #techBros #techOligarchs #corruption
"Our cognitive disaster is unfolding as if it’s the way of the world, like sun-up over the horizon and the light that blankets the land — inevitable, irreversible, the nature of things. This may be so, given that bowing before the #tech god is inherent in industrial civilization, an expression of the fanatical worship of innovation that goes unquestioned in our society."
The internet made us stupid. #AI promises to make it worse
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-09-21/ai-artificial-intelligence-internet-e-bike-brain
#artificialIntelligence #techfutures
DAIR's First Anniversary - Dylan Baker, Nobody Owns Our Technological Future
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/iRTqFhJHvcf5JXFTPGsNs5
#LARB Radio Hour | The Shit Show
"[H]ow #BigTech dreams – from iPhones to #socialMedia to #AI – have become nightmares.
"How did these decade-defining innovations end up making modern life feel sadder, lonelier, and scarier?"
#books discussed
⦁ @pluralistic's #Enshittification
⦁ Paul Kingsnorth’s #AgainstTheMachine
"Because conservative Christianity is so tightly woven into the state’s political culture, #Musk and his fellow California exiles find themselves confronting a new ideological fusion, a blend of neoliberal economic policies and Christian-nationalist cultural ambition, rooted in the state’s long history of resource extraction and at ease with racism and misogyny."
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-texan-ideology-turner
#tech #BigTech #USpol #SiliconValleyRight #Texas #techMigration #techFutures
"A willingness to be conned as long as the illusion flatters our sense of self and our image of the future is a defining characteristic of our time. [...] In a country run by scam artists, all that’s left is the illusion of autonomy and control. Why wouldn’t people gravitate toward a car that similarly promises, however falsely, to make them powerful and free?"
Maya Vinokour's acerbic account of meeting the #Cybertruck
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cybertruck-elon-musk-fail/
#cars #EVs #Tesla #Musk #tech #techFutures
"The danger of #AI is not that it will achieve consciousness and hit the big red button. The end is much less flashy, far more stupid: The resource-intensive advertisement tools of AI will increasingly overtax the grid, leaving us to cook alive in sweltering darkness. The AI hype is part of a larger, false narrative justifying fossil fuel expansion. Let’s not get fooled."
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ai-data-centers-climate-change/
#ArtificialIntelligence #tech #techFutures #BigTech #dataCentres #energy #climateChange
I had a lovely time, #TechFutures. Met some wonderful people, made a room laugh at my AI jokes, and helped a small room of folks deploy a genAI bot into their slack. It's been a pretty good time.
🚀 ASUS sta anticipando il gioco! Le sue schede sono già pronte per Zen 6. Futuro high-tech ad un passo da noi! #ASUSRocks #TechFutures
🔗 https://www.tomshw.it/hardware/amd-zen-6-confermato-da-asus-per-scheda-madre-b850-2025-10-10
"Where Trump’s first administration was defined by a generally symbiotic but tenuous relationship with #BigTech, the second would be, from the jump, a rancid union of #SiliconValley ideology and fascist impulse. [...]
"In many ways, the shameless about-face comes as the culmination of the #tech world’s open embrace of self-advancing cynicism in recent years."
https://thebaffler.com/latest/e-pluribus-uh-oh-kim
#USpol #AI #SiliconValleyRight #technoauthoritarianism #techFutures
Could these shifts be just surface noise? Maybe the real story is hidden. Which trend are you most curious about? What’s being buried or overlooked?
#UkraineConflict #GlobalGeopolitics #TechFutures #EconomicShifts #PowerStruggles
Step into a future where tech fuels thrilling adventures—androids, spies, and aliens collide with heartfelt memoirs rooted in real life. Explore Bill DeFoor’s world today:
#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #KarenHao (@karenhao), author of #EmpireOfAI: Dreams and Nightmares in #SamAltman’s #OpenAI
https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-august-11-2025/
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #tech #BigTech #SiliconValley #techFutures #books @bookstodon
📱 Pixel 9a appena sbarcato, ma non freniamo la curiosità per il futuro: Pixel 10a, sei già nei nostri pensieri! #Pixel10a #TechFutures
🔗 https://www.tomshw.it/smartphone/pixel-10a-potrebbe-mantenere-il-design-del-9a-2025-07-10
🚀 What if your AI could predict the future like a quantum oracle?
Quantum AI isn’t just faster—it’s rewriting the laws of intelligence.
From 12x forecasting accuracy to decoding proteins in seconds, this changes everything.
Discover 7 breakthroughs set to reshape life by 2030.
⚛️ Don’t blink. This is the new OS of civilization.
🔍 Read now:
👉 https://medium.com/@rogt.x1997/7-quantum-ai-breakthroughs-that-could-redefine-humanity-by-2030-ee4ec4d2a193
#QuantumAI #AI2025 #TechFutures #Qiskit
https://medium.com/@rogt.x1997/7-quantum-ai-breakthroughs-that-could-redefine-humanity-by-2030-ee4ec4d2a193
"In this special episode of ‘Unshocked,’ #NaomiKlein is joined by #tech analyst, journalist, and author, @parismarx to break down the dangers behind #SiliconValley’s push for an #AI-centered world, including for the environment, education, and democracy."
https://youtu.be/adHOG1nJ8js?list=PLhHpnycGpC8S_A87y6MjfrzKzkWoNPAjO
#ArtificialIntelligence #techFutures #technosolutionism
🔨The Hammer of #AI: The belief that AI alone can solve every societal issue risks overshadowing the essential process of #datafication. Let's shift focus to how data is created and governed, ensuring a more comprehensive understanding of our digital futures #TechFutures #AI4SI
"The choices #tech titans make in their personal lives [..] show that a segregated, shrouded life is their ideal. But they profit off technologies which, while encouraging our own social withdrawal, are focused on capturing as much information about us as possible."
#RebeccaSolnit reads her powerful LRB essay, "Losing #SanFrancisco"
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley
#SiliconValley #cities #gentrification #inequality #BigTech #plutocracy #TechFutures #TechBros #TechCulture #SiliconValleyRight
Overthink has me wondering what we would all be working on and thinking about right now if we weren’t so pulled in by AI tech?
#techfutures #philosophy #podacademics
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/overthink/id1538249280?i=1000651902661
🚀 Explore the power of edgeEngine microservices with our comprehensive video tutorial and accompanying Instruqt tutorials!
🖥️ In this tutorial by Bob Reselman, you will discover how to construct an edgeEngine microservice using a WebAssembly binary. This process leverages the efficiency and speed of WebAssembly modules, thereby enhancing the power of #edgeEngine programming.
🔗 Watch the full YouTube video here:https://youtu.be/FIhXELRXuds?si=YQMGju4K9YUg2T9-
#TechFutures#DeveloperCommunity#EdgeComputing
