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Archived on 9 June 2023 at 4:00pm [URL redacted]
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Supplementary #2023_TheWizardOfAI https://alanwarburton.co.uk/thewizardofai #PhenomnVideoEssay by #IRLAnimatorAlanWarburton offers up a technological #TheoryInstrumentalism.ist view of generative AI framed according to an #MetaphorVersusUsThem logic. His #TheoryDeterminismFatalistic perspective describes the phenomenon in terms of a supposed 'wonder panic' (which appears to be simply a rebadging of the #NarrativeUtopianismTechnological concept), which he contrast with #TheoryAffectiveResponseNarrativeTechnophobia. #TheoryModernityLiquid #PleaAuthenticity #MetaphorVersusLegitimateIllegitimate #VlogAIInsightsExplorer (review of the above) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZxzradL_GY He makes mention of the concept of #TheoryImaginarySociotechnical i.e. "the 'technological imaginary' refers us to the way that new technologies are taken up within a culture and are hooked into, or have projected onto them" Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, Kieran Kelly (2003). 'New Media: A Critical Introduction'. https://www.routledge.com/New-Media-A-Critical-Introduction/Lister-Dovey-Giddings-Grant-Kelly/p/book/9780415431613
Addendum https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-uncanny-failures-of-ai-generated-hands And https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/ai-generated-art-hands-fingers-messed-up
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Archived on 10 September 2022 at 8:00pm [URL redacted]
@JamaalBachler [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : @TCM | They made it, but does it have to be aired, still? "Something of Value" is a 1957 #WhiteManSavior movie (Ref: #MississippiBurning) with #RockHudson as the #woke white settler in #Kenya who has all the feels for the oppressed #SidneyPoitier, etc. [URL redacted]
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Archived on 3 April 2021 at 4:15pm [URL redacted]
@KyleighLemmond [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [03]: @alan_poirier Looks like everyone has benefitted from #fossilfuels - ppl in Africa would benefit more if the #woke #climateers were not preventing their access to grid scale electricity and #coal-fired power plants. [URL redacted] #racism #ecocolonialism [URL redacted]
Overt #ReasoningFallacyBiasCognitiveConfirmation - using #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteAbduction of ligitimate life-expectancy date from #WebsiteOurWorldInDataMaxRoser https://ourworldindata.org/about and https://www.maxroser.com/
Context "the inactivists - a loose coalition of fossil-fuel interests, conservative ideologues and supportive politicians and journalists - seek to redirect responsibility for the problem away from the fossil fuel industry and towards individual consumers, as well as developing nations in the global south. When solutions to the climate crisis are proposed by inactivists, they tend to be timid and unambitious, with faith in future (as yet unrealised) 'green' technologies held up as a reason to shy away from serious structural changes now." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/11/inactivists-tangling-up-the-climate-crisis-in-culture-wars-manston-airport-kent #PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism https://www.isdglobal.org/ #IdentityGlobalSouth #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyCraigMackinlay #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyJulianKnight #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartySteveBaker #OrgUKClimateChangeCommitteeCCC https://www.theccc.org.uk/about/ #PhenomnClimateChangeAnthropogenic #PolicyDecarbonisationZeroCarbon https://youngfoee.eu/news/climate-myth-2-its-all-china-and-indias-fault/ #PhenomnPropagandaDisinformation #AdvocacyUKInstituteForStrategicDialogueISD #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyNigelLawson https://seanforachange.medium.com/how-a-wealthy-uk-thinktank-is-spreading-climate-denial-through-facebook-ads-abc52390df47 And https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/02/nigel-lawson-climate-sceptic-organisation-funders #IRLEconomistNeilRecord i.e. #WebsiteDeSmog [DeSmog] And #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyNigelVinson "Both are linked to a free-market thinktank, the Institute of #AdvocacyUKInstituteOfEconomicAffairsIEA, which has admitted taking funding from fossil fuel companies and has also argued against climate change mitigation". #IRLBusinesspersonMichaelHintze #AdvocacyUKGlobalWarmingPolicyForumGWPF http://www.thegwpf.org/global-warming-policy-foundation-launches-campaigning-arm/ i.e. #WebsiteNetZeroWatch / https://www.netzerowatch.com/who-we-are/ #CatchcryCostOfNetZero #AdvocacyUKNetZeroScrutinyGroup https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/misinformation-and-propaganda-campaign-on-net-zero/ #NewspaperUKTabloidDailyExpressJamesMurray #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #AdvocacyUKGlobalWarmingPolicyFoundationBennyPeiser #MetaphorWarfareCulture #TheoryDragonsOfInactionDiscredenceDenial #IRLWriterAdamCorner https://adamcorner.uk/
Supplementary #IRLFilmmakerAdamCurtis #2014_OhDearismII [commentary] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR6KZPMdWrU "our defeatist response to contradictory narratives" #PhenomnVideoEssay #PloyManufacturingDoubt_ #PolicyEconomicQuantitativeEasingQE [Folksonomy] #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaVladislavSurkov #PhenomnTrustworthinessMistrust
"Habermas sees the modern public sphere as, in many ways, the victim of its own success. As it expanded far beyond its original basis of educated male property-owners, material inequalities could no longer be set aside, but rather became the subject of public debate (1962 [1989: 127]). And this debate was no longer a matter of rational-critical analysis of state action by the assembled public, but of negotiation between interest groups which bypass public reason. Instead of the approximation of society to the ideal type, what emerged was an impoverished pseudo-public sphere, lacking its original capacity for rational-critical discourse, easily manipulated by states, corporations, and interest groups using the techniques of 'public relations' (1962 [1989: 176, 236]). Its role now, as in the feudal era, is to acclaim decisions which have already been made." [encyclopædia] #IRLPhilosopherJurgenHabermas #TheoryThePublicSphere #PoliticsFeudalism [Wikipedia]
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Archived on 23 February 2021 at 11:15pm [URL redacted]
@PatriceEkelund [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [04]: @fontanel3 @TReveuse Malheureusement, il renaît depuis un moment. #Islamophobie #SJW #Woke #Baizuo #Feminazis #Racialistes #Indigénistes #Décolonialites #Progressisme et j'en oublie.... [URL redacted]
"Joseph Goebbels 'Nous ne voulons pas convaincre les gens de nos idées, nous voulons réduire le vocabulaire de telle façon qu'ils ne puissent plus exprimer que nos Idées' ['We don't want to convince people of our ideas, we want to reduce the vocabulary so that they can only express our ideas.']" #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyJosephGoebbels
Supplementary #IRLFilmmakerAdamCurtis #2002_TheCenturyOfTheSelf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s&t=2299s #PhenomnVideoEssay #IRLScholarEdwardBernays #PhenomnCommunicationsPublicRelations #TheoryPhilosophyLibidinal
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Archived on 6 August 2020 at 3:30pm [URL redacted]
@SimoneAgoncillo [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [06]: @benshapiro I'll do her one better. Read Charles Murray's "Coming Apart". Empirical evidence of the problem is made quite clear in his treatise. We're being ruled by a small group of which Oprah is a proud member. #woke is NOT the same as awake. #openminded first, then educated always works. [URL redacted]
#BrandTheDailyWirePolemicistBenShapiro #AdvocacyUSTheAmericanEnterpriseInstituteCharlesMurray [Wikipedia] #2012_ComingApartTheStateOfWhiteAmerica [Wikipedia] #IRLPresenterOprahWinfrey #TheoryVictimhoodWhiteThymos ?
Supplementary #NewspaperUKBrdshtBylineTimesNafeezAhmed, #NewspaperUKBrdshtBylineTimesPeterJukes and #NewspaperUKBrdshtBylineTimesHardeepMatharu "Now, a very different type of 'dark enlightenment' has descended on the world-renowned university. Powered by US money and far-right European think tanks, Cambridge has recently become an outpost of a peculiar blend of national conservatism and apocalyptic Christianity, through the figure of James Orr - Head of Policy at Reform UK described as Nigel Farage's 'Kingmaker'. ... Recent guests and visitors read like a 'Who's Who?' of political pilgrims and scholars - almost exclusively from the right. Peter Thiel has visited; as has his protegee, Donald Trump's Vice-President, JD Vance, who described Orr as his 'British Sherpa'. So too have former Dutch MP and anti-Islam activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali; the conservative author and advocate of white identity politics Douglas Murray; the Canadian psychologist and anti-woke activist Jordan Peterson; and the comedian and writer John Cleese. MP Danny Kruger, now Reform's work and pensions spokesman, reportedly stayed at the house overnight. After Orr's appointment as head of Reform UK's policy think tank in September 2025, his work even attracted the attention of New Labour grandee Peter Mandelson, who was apparently planning to 'hold drinks in honour" of him, according to a source - just before his sacking as UK Ambassador to the US, after the extent of his relationship with the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was revealed. (Neither Orr nor the Foreign and Commonwealth Office would confirm or deny that this event actually took place)." https://bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/peter-thiel-and-reform-uks-cambridge-university-pipeline-project/ #NarrativeUtopiaDarkEnlightenmentNRx #EDUUKUniversityOfCambridge #PoliticsConservatismNational [Wikipedia] #PoliticsNationalismConservative #BeliefTheismChristianity #AdvocacyNLTheEdmundBurkeFoundationJamesOrr #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUK #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKNigelFarage #IRLEntrepreneurPeterThiel #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPJDVance #AdvocacyUSHooverInstitutionAyaanHirsiAli #MagazineUKTheSpectatorDouglasMurray #IRLPsychologistJordanPeterson #OrgUKMontyPythonJohnCleese #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyDannyKruger #OrgClassifPPUKLabourPeterMandelson [Wikipedia] #IRLBusinesspersonJeffreyEpstein
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Archived on 8 July 2020 at 4:15am [URL redacted]
@AnnikaLingo [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [03]: YEA... IT ALL ADDS UP.. #TheGreatAwakening #Pizzagate #MadelineMcCann #PodestaEmails #GhislaineMaxwell #Epstein #Frazzledrip #FauciFraud #BillGates #Christinemaxwell #sisters #addsup #WOKE #ChildTrafficking #SaveTheChildren #NewWorldOrder #wakeup #spiritualwarfare [URL redacted]
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