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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?".

#podcasts #TeamHuman

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 7 days ago

"Think of it this way. We built the net as a safe refuge for the counterculture. Corporations invaded the net, they took it over, and turned it into an accelerationist nightmare.

But they're ignoring the real world in the process. They believe they're leaving it behind, for something abstract and better, and as far as I'm concerned, let them take the net. As long as we can take back the real world.

They get the net, and we'll have each other."

#DouglasRushkoff, 2025

https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/342-the-joy-of-being-worthless-except-to-each-other

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 3 months ago

"... 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

https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/331-liana-gillooly

#podcasts #TeamHuman

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 3 months ago

"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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#podcasts #TeamHuman #JohnPerryBarlow

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 5 months ago

This is from the same reputation laundering playbook as companies pumping out disposable products and packaging that aren't home compostable. Then blaming individuals for the resulting mountains of rubbish, because they're "litterbugs";

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koqNm_TgOZk

Don't fall for it. They make the crap, they can choose to stop. So they're responsible for any foreseeable consequences. Not us.

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Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 5 months ago

"I don't mind even people thinking of ["AI"] as conscious entities. Is there a problem if we take the metaphor literally and think of them as ... sort of ... children, or a next generation of life that we're raising?"

#DouglasRushkoff, 2025

https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/325-de-kai

Ummm ... yes! The same problem as thinking of Android devices as children, or the next evolution of life. It's delusional nonsense, and it leads to huge category errors in the way we understand the tech. See above.

#MOLE #AI

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 7 months ago

"Now, I’m not saying we shouldn’t do what we can to slow or stop all this bad shit from happening. But we shouldn’t act as if this is a surprise. As if now is somehow a game-changing pivot moment. A whole lot of us have been shouting from the rooftops for a whole long time while this incremental descent into madness was occurring, and it goes much deeper and longer than Donald Trump and America’s technocratic extremists."

Douglas @Rushkoff, 2025

https://rushkoff.substack.com/p/the-job-hasnt-changed

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