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xriskology.bsky.social
Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
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Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:

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Worth watching the whole thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCn...

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Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:

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Kate Willett (@katewillett.bsky.social) considers the groups funding and promoting the "Abundance" faction in the Democratic Party: “Both Klein and the Tech Right agree on one thing: democracy interferes with the market’s ability to generate abundance.” newintermag.com/abundance-bi...

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

Must-Read: @katewillett.bsky.social exposes the reactionary Silicon Valley roots of the so-called "Abundance" agenda. Having bought the Republican Party, the billionaires seek to co-opt the Democratic Party with these color-by-numbers anti-progressive talking points newintermag.com/abundance-bi...

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

Anxious to find out what these bombshell stories are but could probably just text Hegseth and ask him

submitted 6 days ago • 50 comments

Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left. YALL, THE TITLE!!

submitted 7 days ago • 408 comments

OMG. Yes, James, "the Nazis used [you]"! Poor old James, taken advantage of by "the Nazis." Seriously, take some f*cking responsibility, dude -- you chose to promote the far-right, to vote for Trump, to make racist and sexist remarks, etc. You are not a victim here, but an active participant!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Friends: I wrote a protest song four days ago about the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, and Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Anyone want to--or know someone who would want to--put together a video with clips about these incidents? Something similar to... wonderfulsome.bandcamp.com/track/take-t...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

This is so good. @katewillett.bsky.social is one of the voices I missed the most after leaving Twitter and I'm glad to see her on here more. Also highly recommend the Dystopia Now podcast she's started with @xriskology.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 234 comments

Friends: I'm now looking for a job. I will not have a stable source of income by the end of this year. If anyone has any suggestions for think tanks, etc. focused on AI-related issues, please let me know below or DM me. I'd really appreciate it! Wishing everyone well. <3

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I am once again begging people to realize that the law is words on paper and is not self executing. "That's illegal" is not and has never been synonymous with "that's impossible" or "that can't be done." "That's illegal" means "you might get in trouble for that depending on who you are."

submitted 11 days ago • 125 comments

My grand theory of LLMs is that they are a scam technology. That's it.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Four active students at my university just had their visas revoked.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I'm glad to see major outlets discover that Trump 2.0 will completely decimate environmental protections, public safety, corporate oversight, and consumer protection this kind of thing might have proven useful pre-election

submitted 12 days ago • 35 comments

I have no words to express how utterly horrifying and monstrously immoral this is. Worth reading in full. Why is it too much to ask for our civilization to be civilized? 😰 www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

submitted 14 days ago • 173 comments

A doctor *who currently has the measles* is treating people, including children, who haven't been vaccinated against the measles, and RFK Jr. (of course) loves the guy. Worth watching: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJQU...

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

We have the most anti-free speech government in modern American history. (And yet, in true Orwellian fashion, they claim to be champions of free speech.)

submitted 14 days ago • 549 comments