Jorge Camacho
@jcamachor.bsky.social
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jcamachor.bsky.social
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...
jcamachor.bsky.social
Thanks for reading and sharing, Jeremy. 🙌
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cwarzel.bsky.social
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
jcamachor.bsky.social
Thank you so much for this. I really needed it.
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danmcquillan.bsky.social
Decomputing as a response to AI and to the underlying conditions that make AI seem inevitable.
techwontsave.us
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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ainowinstitute.bsky.social
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
jcamachor.bsky.social
From “Everything everywhere all at once” to “some things somewhere eventually” in the span of a week. #tariffs #ArtOfTheDeal
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bethsawin.bsky.social
3 alternatives to new years resolutions for seeding and steering change in your life/world/organization/community/family, a 🧵
jcamachor.bsky.social
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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jcamachor.bsky.social
😥 espero que pronto se quede solo como un mal recuerdo 🙌
jcamachor.bsky.social
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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jcamachor.bsky.social
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.
jcamachor.bsky.social
The present is not here anymore — it’s just disappearing unevenly.
jcamachor.bsky.social
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
jcamachor.bsky.social
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.
jcamachor.bsky.social
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
jcamachor.bsky.social
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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jcamachor.bsky.social
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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jcamachor.bsky.social
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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jcamachor.bsky.social
… 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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jcamachor.bsky.social
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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bencollins.bsky.social
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.
jcamachor.bsky.social
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