I’m fairly well branded as a doomer, so I hate to break ranks with my preparedness brethren, but I’m absolutely sick of the powerful using fear as a tool to control people. It isn’t a new problem. This is the go-to tactic our species has used insofar as we can verify with written history. Any […]
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Day 339 and Doomer Optimism
I write a mini-festo for the Doomer Optimism community. I am sharing it here today as well as gosh darn it I wrote it so it counts. I come from hippie utopian stock. My parents, both working class union types, moved us to the promised land of Silicon Valley right before I was born. The […]
I’m so old I viscerally remember the Y2K panic that ate up the emotional bandwidth of the American media class who then stoked fear into the hearts of the doomer classes from system administrators to evangelical millenarians. I was very much online during the Y2K era though I didn’t start blogging (unless you count girly […]
It’s hard not to feel like you are drowning when you open up a newsfeed. Every day you are watching people on tilt across every topic and demographic. Is this the singularity? The doomers and Luddites are being courted by money with shadowy religious grants to “prepare for the dangers of super intelligence.” Competing political […]
I am finishing off a series by Charles Stross called the Laundry Files. It is a fifteen book series with a bunch of novellas that I’ve been reading since college. It’s James Bond meets Cthulhu in British bureaucracy. The last book The Regicide Report came out earlier this year. It’s Lovecraftian horror about an applied […]
“It’s not a prediction” he said. It’s just a hypothetical possible reality. I believe we used to call that fiction. A science fiction short story wrapped in a macroeconomic essay written by Citrini Research hit the algorithms like a bomb Markets lapped it up like beasts who’d been lost in a barren desert for weeks. […]
I pulled into Nazareth was feelin’ about half past dead. I’m not actually in Nazareth, but I am feeling the weight of my travel and I do feel half past dead. Laying in bed I’ve got The Weight’s classic on repeat along with remixes and algorithm recommendations. For what it’s worth Buffalo Springing is a […]
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Day 1780 and Being Cooked
I’m starting to think the more optimistic you are about the future, the more cooked you think we are. I didn’t expect this. The Doomers have a coherent worldview. It’s simple to imagine involving losing your humanity to machines. This is at least legible and a call to our common humanity. Change is scary and […]
Julie Fredrickson examines Nick Land’s philosophical legacy, internet reactionary thought and futurism, and the pun of a “Land acknowledgment” as cultural commentary on ideology, identity, and digital geography
We are all us humans on the good ship Lollipop. I mean this as a stand in for Mother Gaia/Terra/Earth. We are all in this together right? Wrong? Who knows. I happen to be on the America decks, so even if I can see the sea is perilous the orchestra is still playing. Maybe I’m […]