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Why I left Twitter/X and where to find me.
douglas rushkoff
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douglas rushkoff
@rushkoff
I'm off for now.
This platform no longer tends to engender productive conversations.
Website: rushkoff.com Mastodon: @[email protected] Bluesky:@Rushkoff
- I just got to do Majority Report w Sam Seder & Emma Vigeland. What a great show. I love a no-holds-barred conversation. Especially nice for the focus on how libertarianism is prone to abstraction and fantasies of escape.
- I just recorded a fabulous conversation for @TeamHumanShow with @NaomiAKlein about her new masterwork, Doppelganger. I'll try to wait until its 9/12 release to post it. I feel so privileged to be in a position to do this, and enriched as a result.
- I insisted I had not done anything. That it was pure coincidence. An old man put his forehead against my forehead, his nose against my nose, smiled, and said “Coincidence is the skill of a great storyteller.”
- By creating a regulatory body at which the biggest players get seats at the table, they can develop legal hurdles that effectively block new, less capitalized players from participating at all.
- I got to go on my favorite podcast!🚨 EPISODE 305: Bloodless Hype Machines 🤖 Prof @rushkoff & TA talk what’s real & what’s fake about the AI publicity push, the next phase of the internet, and human connection in the oppressive techno-future 🖥️ Full ep: patreon.com/TrueAnonPod Trailer: soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/bl…
- Yay. Some people are finally accepting what I was arguing back in my 1996 book Playing the Future. In many kids, what we are calling ADD is an *adaptive* response to a world in which their attention has become a commodity.
- I'm doing a free lecture and gathering in Japan, including a book party! My first and, likely, only visit in this lifetime. I'd love to meet you. October 17.
- The hidden history of modern machine intelligence has more to do with medieval poetry and Russian folktales than the myths being told in Silicon Valley. A very different conversation about AI with Dennis Yi Tenen, author of Literary Theory for Robots.
- If you're freaked out about Artificial Intelligence and the replacement of human labor, values, and meaning systems, please take a look at (or listen to) my 2018 book about what was coming and how to respond, Team Human.
- My dinner with Andre! Inspirational actor and fellow WWNorton author, at the Norton 100th anniversary party. Books live.
- "I Will Not be Autotuned" A new talk, my last talk about Survival of the Richest and - more importantly - what comes next, for the great people at All Tech is Human. It was like a homecoming, and drew out a radical candidness I hadn't expected.
- I'm Time Person of the....Week! They're doing a new interview podcast hosted by the brilliant @CharlotteAlter link.chtbl.com/potw0112
