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   undemocratic. We, ordinary people, stopped Google Glass from being   
   widely released because we mocked its users, calling them   
   'glassholes'. The Cybertruck--itself a work of anti-art that could   
   only be the product of a mind addled by the far right--failed,   
   largely because it is embarrassing to be seen in one. We have already   
   seen that the AI industry is vulnerable--it was possible for Chinese   
   grad students to build the same thing for a fraction of the price,   
   calling into question the entire model of growth through massive   
   investment in data centres. The left is powerless across much of   
   society, but a training in ruthless criticism of all that exists has   
   made us masters of negativity, while always keeping one eye on the   
   better world that is possible when the slop has been cleared away.   
   Our most effective weapons against AI, and the right wing that has   
   adopted it, may not be strikes, boycotts or the power of dialectics.   
   They might be replying "cringe," "this sucks," and "this looks like   
   shit."   
      
   [1]   
   There are, of course, important left critiques of those values, and   
   of the European Enlightenment project itself. These are not the same   
   as the revanchism of the right.   
      
   [2]   
   Jean-Paul Sartre. [1948] 1995. Anti-Semite and Jew. Translated by   
   George J Becker. New York: Schocken, p.20. Available to read for free   
   on Archive.org.   
      
      
      
   Author: Gareth Watkins (@garethlwatkins)   
      
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   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)