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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 2d

I shared this piece with @jemgilbert.bsky.social after listening to an excellent recent episode of ACFM. There’s a great opportunity to better connect critical and political theory as well as cultural studies with futures studies and applied foresight.
novaramedia.com/2025/09/21/w...

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for reading and sharing, Jeremy. 🙌

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thank you so much for this. I really needed it.

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · Jul 25

Decomputing as a response to AI and to the underlying conditions that make AI seem inevitable.

Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · Jul 24

Is it possible to imagine a better future where we use less computation? The effects of AI hype almost demand it.

This week @danmcquillan.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to lay out the concept of decomputing as a different way of assessing technology.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/286_...

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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 3

NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out.

Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.

Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Apr 12

From “Everything everywhere all at once” to “some things somewhere eventually” in the span of a week. #tariffs #ArtOfTheDeal

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · Dec 27

3 alternatives to new years resolutions for seeding and steering change in your life/world/organization/community/family, a 🧵

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Nov 30

This is a good documentary about prosperity without growth, including debates around degrowth and green growth. I would’ve left out the sufficiency “experiment” with the family for many reasons. Otherwise, it’s a good overview of a central issue of our times.

youtu.be/JUPrlfBoSzI?...

Is prosperity without economic growth possible? | DW Documentary

YouTube video by DW Documentary

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Nov 24

😥 espero que pronto se quede solo como un mal recuerdo 🙌

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Nov 21

An artifact from the present that somehow feels like both an artifact from the future and an artifact from the past.

www.msb.se/en/advice-fo...

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Dec 24

To paraphrase or, rather, hijack that great phrase by Tom Atlee, I've come to believe that things will get worse and worse, faster and faster before they get better and better, slower and slower.

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Nov 2

The present is not here anymore — it’s just disappearing unevenly.

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Jan 11

Newsflash: Country responsible for 13% of global CO2 emissions and 25% of global cumulative emissions celebrates growing richer while reducing emissions at a rate that is 3x slower than needed to meet their internationally agreed mitigation targets.

U.S. Emissions Fell by 2 Percent in 2023, Even as Economy Grew

Collapsing coal use drove a reduction in overall U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, but transportation emissions are still on the rise

www.scientificamerican.com

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Dec 24

To paraphrase or, rather, hijack that great phrase by Tom Atlee, I've come to believe that things will get worse and worse, faster and faster before they get better and better, slower and slower.

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Dec 15

I’m sure there’s a productive connection between @vgr.bsky.social’s essay and Stephen Wolfram’s latest work but it’s still a bit above my paygrade.

www.ted.com/talks/stephe...

How to think computationally about AI, the universe and everything

Drawing on his decades-long mission to formulate the world in computational terms, Stephen Wolfram delivers a profound vision of computation and its role in the future of AI. Amid a debut of mesmerizi...

www.ted.com

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Dec 15

This is such a great, speculative, hyper-quotable, essay by @vgr.bsky.social conceptualizing Modern AI as a kind of discovery, a camera that allows to peer into “computational reality” (or, perhaps, I’d say, computational possibility?).

open.substack.com/pub/ribbonfa...

A Camera, Not an Engine

Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality

open.substack.com

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Oct 20

So, yes, let’s avoid falling (again) into the optimism vs. pessimism trap and face the future with a techno-pragmatic, tragicomic, scenaric stance.

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Oct 20

An additional and compatible argument would be a call to supersede both optimism and pessimism through the “tragicomic,” “scenaric stance” (J. Ogilvy) that arguably characterizes futures thinking for at least 3/4 of a century.

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Oct 20

The element that, for me, is most philosophically retrograde in the manifesto is the binary choice between optimism and pessimism. In his critique, Karpf calls to supersede that with techno-pragmatism.

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Oct 20

… for a discourse so keen to appear forward-thinking it sounds incredibly anachronistic. Here Karpf traces this discourse back to the early 90s Californian ideology but it may as well be traced back a century or two.

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Oct 20

This is the best critique I’ve read so far of Andreessen’s techno-optimist manifesto. It nails something I’ve thought about since I read the original e/acc pieces that inspired Andreessen, which is that…

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open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?

On Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto"

open.substack.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Oct 16

Marc Andreessen, who runs one of the biggest Silicon Valley venture capital firms, wrote a "manifesto" today labeling “social responsibility" and "tech ethics" teams "the enemy."

His firm, a16z, recently pivoted from crypto/NFTs/Web3 to American military and defense contractor technology.

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Oct 16

Sigh… Tech bros are cosplaying the Italian futurists now.

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

“You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” — Walker P...

open.substack.com

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Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · Sep 17

Significant paper.

Having said that, I wish those efficiency and quality gains would be leveraged to advance a semi-automated/augmented, cyborgian-centaurian four-day workweek instead of the workload rebound effect to which they will probably be deployed.

www.oneusefulthing.org/p/centaurs-a...

Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier

I think we have an answer on whether AIs will reshape work....

www.oneusefulthing.org

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