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Andreas HeppI am very pleased that our article "Solving the crisis with 'do-it-yourself heroes'? The media coverage on <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/pioneercommunities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pioneercommunities</a>, <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Covid</a>-19, and technological <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/solutionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solutionism</a>" is now also available in print.It remains remarkable how members of pioneer communities such as the <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Maker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Maker</a> movement were staged as <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/heroes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heroes</a> and what fantasies existed about solving the problems with <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DIY</a>. In retrospect, this still says a lot about the imagination of <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a> and <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#innovation</a>.<a href="https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2023-0077/html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2023-0077/html</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"A core promise is that turning the public sector over to AI will deliver huge savings and improved delivery, although one might question the reliability of their research, given that it was based on asking ChatGPT itself how many government jobs it could do. While this sketchy approach has echoes of the Iraq ('dodgy') Dossier, it's reflecting a realpolitik that sees both AI companies and rhetoric about AI as incredibly powerful at the current moment.This is perhaps the hole that AI fills for the Labour government; having long abandoned any substantive belief in the transformative power of socialism, it is lacking a mobilising belief system. At the same time, it's obvious to all and sundry that the status quo is in deep trouble and that being the party of continuity isn't going to convince anyone.Ergo, the claim that AI has the power to change the world becomes a good stand-in for a transformative ideology. The bonus for the Labour government is that relying on AI to fix things avoids the need for any structural changes that might upset powerful business and media interests, and rhetoric about global AI leadership has a suitably 'Empire' vibe to appeal to nationalistic sentiments at the grassroots."<a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Labours-AI-Action-Plan-a-gift-to-the-far-right" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Labours-AI-Action-Plan-a-gift-to-the-far-right</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LabourParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LabourParty</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/TonyBlair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TonyBlair</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Solutionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Solutionism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SiliconValley</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a>

ICalzadaEscucho en <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Euskadi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Euskadi</a>/#España sobre las bondades del <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SuperComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SuperComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QuantumComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QuantumComputing</a> en relación a los 'problemas sociales' q la <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> puede 'solucionar'y me pregunto donde hemos dejado la <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/datafication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#datafication</a>... <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheHammerOfAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheHammerOfAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI4SI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI4SI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Solutionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Solutionism</a><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/19/8638" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/19/8638</a>

Andreas HeppJust published: our article on "Solving the <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/crisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crisis</a> with ‘do-it-yourself heroes‘?". It's about the <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#media</a> coverage on the <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Maker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Maker</a> and <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/QuantifiedSelf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QuantifiedSelf</a> movements, <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Covid19</a>, and technological <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/solutionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solutionism</a>. With Jeanette Asmuss, <a href="https://sciences.social/@JulieLuepkes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@JulieLuepkes</a> and Anne Schmitz. <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/pioneercommunities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pioneercommunities</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/californianideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#californianideology</a>👇👇👇 <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2023-0077/html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2023-0077/html</a>

Christian Aubry 🇨🇦🇺🇦<|Because of their reliance on techno-fixes, representatives of Silicon Valley express an ideology of ecomodernism, which believes that human progress can be “decoupled” from environmental decline.|> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/techno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#techno</a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/solutionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solutionism</a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/geoingeneering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geoingeneering</a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environment</a> <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2024.2416295" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2024.2416295</a> via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@joplam" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@joplam</a>

Christoph BeckerClimate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/21/climate-engineering-off-us-coast-could-increase-heatwaves-in-europe-study-finds" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/21/climate-engineering-off-us-coast-could-increase-heatwaves-in-europe-study-finds</a><a href="https://hci.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a> <a href="https://hci.social/tags/solutionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solutionism</a>

AudunThe current <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/heatwave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heatwave</a> in India is quite similar to the first chapters of the acclaimed climate-solutionist novel The Ministry for The Future (though with less dead so far). It also shows why the magic thinking underlying the <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/solutionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solutionism</a> presented in the book is bullshit. Does anyone seriously believe that the unfolding climate catastrophe somehow in itself will be a wake-up call and usher in Green politicians in elections in BJP-dominated India? Or anywhere else? We don't need this kind of magical thinking and liberal solutionism. We can't solve the climate collapse, but we can fight it.

Miguel Afonso Caetano<a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Italy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Unemployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unemployment</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Algorithms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Algorithms</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Solutionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Solutionism</a>: "Back in April, the far-right Brothers of Italy party presented “Notes on a Conservative Program”. In a chapter on work, they called for an “artificial intelligence system” that “traces the list of young people who finish high school and university every year and connects them to companies in the sector.” This, the authors of the chapter wrote, would finally solve "youth unemployment,” as “the young person will no longer be able to choose whether to work or not, but [will be] bound to accept the job offer for himself (sic), for his family and for the country, under penalty of loss of all benefits with the application of a system of sanctions.” The proposal did not make it to the final program that Brothers of Italy published prior to the election on 25 September, when they became Italy’s largest party with 26% of the vote.Ironically, the neofascists most likely had intended to use Artificial Intelligence to “create a fog around them, around what they are and what they want, because they want to attract a more moderate right-wing electorate,” says sociologist Antonio Casilli. Guido Crosetto, the Brothers of Italy co-founder who edited the work chapter, is not considered knowledgeable on technology, though he once tweeted about being “in favor of introducing artificial intelligence to the Ministry of Justice”. Unlike in other countries, there is no noticeable overlap between the Italian tech scene and far-right parties like Lega Nord and Brothers of Italy."<a href="https://algorithmwatch.org/en/italian-neofascists-artificial-intelligence/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://algorithmwatch.org/en/italian-neofascists-artificial-intelligence/</a>

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