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"I find the prospect of predicting the #future incredibly dismal – even offensive. A predictable future is set in stone, immune to human agency. A predictable future runs on rails, and we're the prisoners of #history, tied to the tracks...
My intention isn't to demoralize you into tying yourself to history's tracks – I'm here to show you how to grab the wheel and steer off the rails altogether."
- @pluralistic
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What a perfect time to tell you all how great @pluralistic ’s book Enshittification is.
It’s the true story of how and why all things on the internet that were once great and drew us all in eventually changed. What started as a nice piece of cheese that everyone enjoyed end up becoming the bait that tech companies built a trap around. They then used us as bait to build a trap around advertisers.
The terrible cheese analogy is entirely mine. I promise the book doesn’t mention tech cheese. 😂
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/7149d003-daa2-4d4b-a83c-da82a24c1248
@cory@follow.coryd.dev📖 End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor (★★★★☆) #books #politics #science #nature
A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly define the contemporary right—and a recipe for how to fight them. As the planet burns and shared reality melts, a new iteration of the far right is on the march. How can we...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780374621407/end-times-fascism
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