( for the record, the reason i say church isn’t my jam is actually quite specific and theological; i think the idea that human nature is broken and needs to be improved is troublesome, which may sound weird from a technoutopian but hey)
Slowly but surely approaching the technoutopian era of a Mac you can comfortably put in your butt
M4 Mac Mini to Become Apple's Smallest Ever Computer With Complete Redesign
Apple is planning to debut a completely redesigned Mac mini later this year, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. The new model will be the first major design change to the Mac mini since 2010 and become Apple's smallest ever desktop computer. The…
One thing we wanted to begin outlining is the relay between the discursive inflation around AI—technoutopian visions and PDoom BS—and its extractive relation to labor in the Global South and to nonhuman nature. The merits or faults of AI have to be read against the horizon of capital.
This applies to everything from technoutopian dystopias to electoral politics to the rise of the global fascist movement
Isn’t Ord’s thesis that, if we avoid extinction for the next three years, we enter the safe zone wherein we can build this?
"Contemporary narratives about sex tech’s origins tend to sidestep issues of race, as if the desire for sex with machines were itself an expression of a technoutopian postracialism." SERIOUSLY
I’d guess that anyone calling you “uncritical” of anything, hasn’t been following you for very long :) Source: @hrheingoldmastodon.social…
Rohde: RSAC’s designers claimed they had successfully merged hard/soft—computational calculation & human judgment. That dream grew out of a 30 year effort to gain traction on the fog of war. A similar technoutopian aspiration persists to this day but security & certainty remain moving targets…#HSS23
Classic Scifi technoutopian: the future will be without labor, and humanity will be free to pursue art, literature, science, and leisure! 21st century techbro: lol, no. You gonna drown in fucking ads for apps that sell more ads. Rent is also due. It's fucking high.