Ivan Illich Philosophy of Tools

Ivan Illich's "philosophy of tools can help us imagine a technology-friendly tomorrow that enhances human life, instead of enslaving it with addictive games and narcissistic mirrors."

Read @BrianAcity in @firstthingsmag https://t.co/eE4aDia9c3

— Manhattan Institute (@ManhattanInst) January 18, 2022

Untact-ful

Untact is terrifying. South Korea is supposed to be largely Christian, but there’s nothing Christian about this spread of the impersonal and machinic. The country seems to be going straight from the quasi-feudal and courtly to the futuristic and cold. https://t.co/AaLKr3Fm6s

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) December 11, 2021

Philanthrocapitalism

Over the years, I’ve shared a stage with a jar of human feces, smelled pit latrine odor, and drunk water made from poop (and convinced @jimmyfallon to drink it too). Was it worth it? You bet. Here’s why: https://t.co/8SJbCuNezD

— Bill Gates (@BillGates) July 27, 2021

What is Gates really trying to accomplish?

Avoid Brain Rot

Cell phone radiation linked to increased risk of brain cancer, professor finds https://t.co/g9LZnv6mdC

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) July 7, 2021

Clare and Kingsnorth

Kingsnorth also sees how enclosure in the widest sense is the main driver of the processes of modern capitalist and bureaucratic tyranny. He well grasps just why figures like Cobbett, Ruskin and Chesterton were more radical than Marx in denying its inevitability and rationality.

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) June 9, 2021

Do subscribe to this and read Paul Kingsnorth’s eloquent defence of the Luddites: they were no technophobes but coherent protestors against the needless subordination of people to machines which has now increased exponentially and disastrously. https://t.co/jkMU2GaSzL

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) June 9, 2021

One of Clare’s finest assaults upon enclosure. https://t.co/PBoYb6UtXH

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) June 9, 2021

Data Tracking

Data tracking. In an age where nearly everything we do is recorded, it's almost impossible to be truly "off the grid." https://t.co/tSR51lcbVk

— SOFREP (@sofrepofficial) April 28, 2021

The New Normal

This article, put out by MIT (war machine, digital currency, transhumanism, robotics, immersive propaganda) is an ongoing torment. It devastated me a year ago, because I knew they weren't kidding. No one around me understood what was coming...and I did.https://t.co/F2Wn5IBEyv

— Alison McDowell (@Philly852) March 17, 2021

"Asceticism"?

There are few I disagree with so much while finding their writing so interesting as @BrankoMilan

Here he dismisses asceticism as a medieval relic without noticing how it stalks industrial modernity - work, leisure etc, just not consumerist ideology. Discussed in Ch16 of my book https://t.co/1ebJK4pbOC

— Chris Smaje (@csmaje) February 20, 2021

A Truly Toxic Environment

Sperm counts of ordinary men around the world are dropping. Girls reach puberty earlier, and women have more miscarriages. Some male fish carry eggs and mammal penis size is shrinking. What's going on? Some scientists point to endocrine disruptors https://t.co/LlHCV0IfeX

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) February 20, 2021

The Technofantasy Continues

Luxuries during a time of decline. Who would have thought the game of CIV would end in this way? Missions to Mars, the Moon and Beyond Await Earth in 2021

What Are the Health Risks of 5G?

OPEN REVIEW: Zorach Glaser, PhD spent decades archiving studies that examine link between certain health issues + exposure to microwave + radio frequencies. Scholars + the public are now invited to help review his documents. #5G #wireless #TheDefenderhttps://t.co/w5lZfNnhfH

— Children's Health Defense (@ChildrensHD) December 26, 2020

A ConInc. Review of The Social Dilemma

This article rightly critiques "The Social Dilemma".

We feel helpless in the face of social media b/c our culture does not instill in us the virtues to engage media in healthy ways.

But how do we begin to develop that virtue? That's the unanswered - and unasked - question. https://t.co/mbwZSv0mBf

— Bill McCormick, SJ (@BMcCSJ) December 1, 2020

Robert Lustig on Technology and Addiction

It was a pleasure joining @CultureFilePod to talk about technology and addiction. Check out our conversation below! https://t.co/9JmW9N1odg

— Robert Lustig MD (@RobertLustigMD) December 1, 2020

Charles Hugh Smith Blackpills

Very few are willing to to face the reality that the U.S. economy was on life support long before Covid came on the scene. In a nutshell: https://t.co/ZZiXPB7AyM

— Charles Hugh Smith (@chsm1th) November 10, 2020

All the PR being spewed about The Great Reset is the final frantic flailing of a system that's drowning in its own excesses. https://t.co/5MMHIUYXJq

— Charles Hugh Smith (@chsm1th) November 12, 2020

What Peak Lithium? What Energy Considerations?

https://t.co/zNfu1j8nvu lithium is the oil of the 21st century , these new EVs will crush ICE cars much quicker than expected https://t.co/zNfu1j8nvu

— ctindale (@ctindale) October 21, 2020

Pharmaceutical or Artifical Contraception AND Abortion

We treat women's sexual liberation as a priori evidence of modern moral progress, but in truth it's a fragile thing wholly dependent on technology. Me at @unherd: https://t.co/sG8yjz8vD3

— Mary Harrington (@moveincircles) October 21, 2020

John Robb with Jack Murphy

Coups, Civil War, and Tribal Totalitarianism - JOHN ROBB - JML #038 https://t.co/5q56X2P6u2 via @YouTube

— Jack Murphy 🇺🇸 ⚔️ (@jackmurphylive) October 15, 2020

Coups, Civil War, and Tribal Totalitarianism - JOHN ROBB - JML #038 https://t.co/9ETvQbaLo1

— Jack Murphy 🇺🇸 ⚔️ (@jackmurphylive) October 15, 2020

Who Will Curb Big Tech?

Fascinating and horrifying interview I did with @LibertarianBlue on the power of Big Tech. https://t.co/yZBbllPLAB@intellectualTO @AlphaNewsMN @ChroniclesMag

— Devin Foley (@Swamp00Fox) October 13, 2020

Unmanned War Machines

Another MIC grift. Who's working on Skynet?

NEW @mklare1 : Sec Def Esper wants to replace Navy ships with untested, unmanned ones, a recipe for disaster. https://t.co/IxTwMONSZk@Dalzell60 @markperrydc

— Responsible Statecraft (@RStatecraft) October 12, 2020

But How Much Energy Does the Process Require

Boom!

An energy-harvesting circuit based on graphene could be incorporated into a chip to provide clean, limitless, low-voltage power for small devices or sensors.

A spectacular new technology that will power watches, glasses and visors. https://t.co/7ZYEpeJlol

— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) October 7, 2020