2023-08-06

• Listened: [[Microdose: Californian Capitalism]]

  • More interesting stuff in there. Some of the later history around Palo Alto, the internet, militarism, Leftist protests, possible liberatory potential (or not) of the internet.

• Writing: [[Reclaiming the stacks: August 2023 roundup]]

• Read: [['A certain danger lurks there': how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI]]

  • "Perhaps his most fundamental heresy was the belief that the computer revolution, which Weizenbaum not only lived through but centrally participated in, was actually a counter-revolution. It strengthened repressive power structures instead of upending them."