From Californian to Texan Ideology: Conservatism, Religion and Extractivism in the Tech Sector On the occasion of a special session co-organized with the CNRS Center for Internet and Society, the médialab seminar welcomed Fred Turner (Stanford University). Abstract…

Découvrez ou redécouvrez la présentation de @fredturner.bsky.social lors du séminaire du 04/11.

Une discussion autour des mutations idéologiques de la tech américaine, de l’utopie libertaire californienne à une idéologie plus conservatrice incarnée aujourd’hui par le Texas.

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Je suis fier de vous annoncer que C&F éditions vient de publier deux de mes livres: Politique des Machines et Design d'une Démocratie. Ils visent à être des analyses utiles – et porteuses d'espoir – pour les personnes confrontées au technofascisme. Vous pouvez trouver les deux chez C&F ici:

The California Authoritarians | médialab Sciences Po Le médialab de Sciences Po et le Centre Internet et Société du CNRS s’associent pour organiser une conférence exceptionnelle avec Fred Turner (Stanford University), autour d’une question centrale : Co...

De l’utopie libertaire à l’autoritarisme technologique : comment expliquer le tournant autoritaire de la Silicon Valley et comment y faire face ?

@fredturner.bsky.social discutera de ces questions lors de la conférence spéciale organisée par le médialab et le @cis-cnrs.bsky.social

De l'idéologie californienne à l'idéologie texane : Conservatisme, religion et extractivisme au sein du secteur des nouvelles technologies | médialab Sciences Po À l’occasion d’une séance exceptionnelle co-organisée avec le Centre Internet et Société du CNRS, le séminaire du médialab accueille Fred Turner (Stanford University). Il proposera une lecture critiqu...

Le 04/11, le médialab et le @cis-cnrs.bsky.social ont le plaisir d’accueillir @fredturner.bsky.social pour un séminaire :

« From Californian to Texan Ideology: Conservatism, Religion and Extractivism in the Tech Sector »

Une analyse des transformations idéologiques de la Silicon Valley.

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The Texan Ideology | Fred Turner The Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity.

Happy to report that The Baffler has released my new essay "The Texas Ideology" just in time to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its inspiration, Barbrook and Cameron’s “The Californian Ideology.” Link below. Enjoy!

Look what came in the mail! Perfect reading for these crazy times.

Adding a separate charge for tariff costs to consumers' bills strikes me as one of the smartest things firms can do right now

Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”

Down the Memory Hole! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

A key step on the road to fascism: replacing public institutions with cronies: Musk aides gain access to sensitive Treasury Department payment system

And in today's Anticipatory Obedience File: Google Maps will now show the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. I can't wait to see what they do with Greenland.

A Working History of the Verified Internet Part two: The battle between Friendsters and Fakesters

Part two: datasociety.net/points/a-wor...

Conservative activists press big companies to buy bitcoin

i.e. crypto kleptocracy….

Outrage as Elon Musk claims ‘only AfD can save Germany’

Think Krupp or I G Farben in 1935… this is what CEO support for fascism looks like today.

Trump eyes privatizing U.S. Postal Service, citing financial losses Trump feuded with the mail agency in his first term. Privatizing it could shake up consumer shipping and business supply chains.

Privatizing USPS is such a terrible idea. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Beyond terrible. Pure kleptocracy.

Facts, frames, and (mis)interpretations: Understanding rumors as collective sensemaking The communicative solution to pervasive misinformation is not better facts, but better frames.

Our team still studies “collective sensemaking” during breaking news events. What we see with MH17 and Jan6 are attacks on the sensemaking process itself… not just a distortion (like those described in this article) but a denial of service attack on sensemaking. www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/r...

A denial of service attack on sense making. Yes! Well done.

I had 60,000 followers on Twitter after 14 years on the site. I have 30,000 after maybe a year here. If journalists are looking for a place to build back up a coherent reading audience that’s actually engaging with our work, this place obviously seems like it has that particular juice

The Invisible Hand: How Dark Money Is Inventing Prestige for Right-Wing Academics The Academy of Sciences and Letters sounds prestigious, but is it really?

Last month, the so-called American Academy of Sciences and Letters gave a medal to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who advocated for mass COVID infection. NY Post framed it as a “top award.”

We looked into it. AASL is 2 years old—part of a right-wing dark money network trying to transform elite universities.

Helpful info here for trans people and their support networks, supportive family. Also a look at the terrible and senseless disruption of people’s lives coming our way