philosloppy

@philosloppy@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  his book on propaganda, The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, is also well worth a read.

  And, if you like Ellul, you should definitely check out Ivan Illich’s work. He’s another social critic coming from a heterodox Christian perspective (Catholic in this case). His ideas can seem a bit unintuitive at and even off-putting to modern sensibilities at times (especially his idea of Life as Idol and his critique of modern medicine in general) but he’s another guy with a lot going on that has been pretty accurate in his prognosticating of contemporary society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  many mid-20th century French thinkers like Foucault, Debord, Deleuze and Baudrillard spent a lot of time writing about surveillance and technology. Lots of this stuff has turned out to be extremely prescient. (Ellul is another example, but as a Christian Anarchist his critiques of what he called the Technical Society, are a bit of an outlier from the other guys above who, despite a plurality of ideas and perspectives, were all coming from a pretty similar place wrt their philosophical backgrounds)

  A pretty easy to digest example is Deleuze’s “Postscript on Societies of Control”, which is like 5 pages long and available for free online, written ca 1990 that is pretty spooky in how accurately it predicted the current state of affairs today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s a lot of mid-century French theorists spinning in their graves right now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Love Letter To Internet Relay Chat⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  IRC continues to demonstrate the superiority of protocols over platforms. Unfortunately, the modern internet is entirely dominated by centralized platforms and that doesn’t seem to be changing anytime soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  is there currently any work being done to do that though? It’s great that that is possible but if nobody is doing it, it’s only a cute hypothetical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  the only thing more aggravating than using imperial having to listen to all the complaining about how metric is better.