"If explaining the state of the world makes you feel like a conspiracy theorist, you aren't alone."
Douglas @Rushkoff, 2026
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/348-youre-not-crazy-reality-has-grown-absurd
Phew. I'd started to think it was just me. This also reminds me of @pluralistic's piece about how the swivel-eyed loons have a point;
Douglas @Rushkoff speculates about a process where the wealthy sandbox themselves, employing Trained #MOLE workers, and pay them in crypto datacentre vouchers that can be redeemed for compute, memory, storage, and so on. The end of capitalism as the Rapture of the Nerds;
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/342-the-joy-of-being-worthless-except-to-each-other
Intriguing, but it reminds me of the IR realist friend who asked me "how many armoured divisions does BitCoin have?".
I note that this interview is from Oct, so maybe @pluralistic has modified his view on this since then but ...
One of the few things I really dislike among Cory's regular talking points is the misrepresentation of Shoshana Zuboff and the makers of The Social Dilemma, as if they ascribe to DataFarmers the invention of a "mind control ray";
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/339-cory-doctorow-enshittification-is-not-inevitable
Some credulous, Kara Swisher style faux-critics may have made this claim, Zuboff and TSD didn't.
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#Listening to Who Can You Trust? The opening track of the 5 song EP of the same name by Arden and the Wolves, released in 2018;
https://ardenandthewolves.bandcamp.com/album/who-can-you-trust
Hot take; most provocative album cover ever.
#HatTip to Douglas @Rushkoff for introducing me to this band, by interviewing lead singer Ardern Leigh on his Team Human podcast;
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/343-arden-leigh-chasing-the-hungry-ghosts
"... if you're aiming all your energy toward bitterness, and jealously, and I want to take people down, what does that lead to?"
#ArdenLeigh, 2025
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/343-arden-leigh-chasing-the-hungry-ghosts
That's an insightful question.
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"... 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
"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.
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en realidad...
#nomads espacio sociocultural para verano.
#teamhuman #resiliencia
en #digital
https://matrix.to/#/@somosnomadas:matrix.org
#somosuno
A good summary of the 1990s internet commons, and maybe a warning for the online commons of the 2020s?
"Well, the Market hadn't figured out how to monetize it yet, and the commoners, for their part, didn't preemptively devise ways to protect the value they were creating."
#DavidBollier, 2025
