I think we need to be talking about TESCREAL more... Spoiler: Eugenics is back. 🧵 - ThreadSky

marche.bsky.social • 9 days ago

I think we need to be talking about TESCREAL more...

Spoiler: Eugenics is back. 🧵

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💯. I just learned about TESCREAL when @mskellymhayes.bsky.social did an excellent episode of Movement Memos about it. https://truthout.org/audio/bizarre-and-dangerous-utopian-ideology-has-quietly-taken-hold-of-tech-world/

hillm.bsky.social•5 days ago

I have been ~really~ trying to get people to pay attention to this for months.

marche.bsky.social•9 days ago

TESCREAL stands for "transhumanism, Extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and longtermism" and is a term coined by Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres in 2023.

@timnitgebru.bsky.social @xriskology.bsky.social

marche.bsky.social•9 days ago

Basically, it's the Silicon Valley tech bro cult's ideology.

Great Wikipedia entry here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL

marche.bsky.social•9 days ago

"TESCREAL proponents have an authoritarian “ends justify the means” mindset rooted in the idea that if we do not submit to their urgent demands, we will extinguish billions of potential future intelligent beings."

Great closer look here: https://washingtonspectator.org/understanding-tescreal-silicon-valleys-rightward-turn/

marche.bsky.social•9 days ago

"The normative framework that motivates much of this goal is rooted in the Anglo-American eugenics tradition of the twentieth century."

Great paper by Gebru and Torres here: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636/11599

marche.bsky.social•9 days ago

"Most people think eugenics = Nazis. They also think eugenics = over after WWII.

Both are wrong."

Great talk by Gebru here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XT4TWLzJw

marche.bsky.social•5 days ago

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” - Steve Biko.

Read. Listen. Watch. Learn. ===> RESIST.

#TESCREAL #TESCREAL #TESCREAL #TESCREAL

stayangry.bsky.social•5 days ago

📌

ursulaarends.bsky.social•9 days ago

This is scary AF! 😱

semiquaver.bsky.social•9 days ago

this is terrifying

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