@rushkoff.com
I write, think, and podcast about media, technology, and society. Author, Survival of the Richest, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, and Team Human. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@douglasrushkoff Support: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman
You can read my book EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED to learn more about this, but Shira’s point is even sharper than she knows: the origin of the term is as fictional and and troubled as its current usage, meaning that from top to bottom it’s a phrase that produces chaotic outcomes.
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“I don’t think there’s a phrase that better characterizes the Internet we have now than, 'Nothing is true, everything is permitted.'" - @shirachess.bsky.social
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I recently chatted with @rushkoff.com on Team Human to discuss about my new @mitpress.bsky.social book, The Unseen Internet. We talked about the esoteric wallpaper of the internet, meme magic, AI, and a whole lot of technological woo...
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The counterculture spent the 90s trying to destroy consensus reality. It worked.
We just didn't have a plan for what came next.
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It's too easy to look at Epstein's world and say, "Those people are a different species."
They're not, and that's what we need to reckon with.
In one of my most urgent Team Human monologues, I discuss Epstein, Dawkins, and the banality of evil.
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One of the most important Team Human monologues I've recorded.
This is my indictment of the permission structure built by the scientific and tech elite. A worldview that dismisses human soul, consent, and morality as mere delusions.
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I was explaining to my class that magic isn't real. Real magic would be if I pointed my fingers at a fly and it fell. And when I did that... the fly dropped.
Team Human with @mitchhorowitz.bsky.social.
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Welcome to all the people who have joined me over the last few days.
I started a playlist for people new to Team Human to learn what we're all about.
Featuring conversations with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social, @mitchhorowitz.bsky.social, Bo Burnham, monologues & more.
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The whole concept of “employment” was invented as a way of preventing us from getting wealthy.
Stream and subscribe "The Joy of Becoming Worthless…except to each other" from Team Human
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Tech billionaires don't care if we survive.
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social explains the bunker mentality of the Silicon Valley elite.
They believe their wealth will insulate them from the crises they’ve helped accelerate.
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How are laws like KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act) being used to kill anonymity and harvest biometric data?
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social and I discuss on Team Human.
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Do the tech billionaires building our future actually care if the rest of us survive it?
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Is magic just "positive thinking," or is it a causative force that can reshape reality?
I sat down with occult historian and author Mitch Horowitz to explore the boundaries of will, belief, and the material world.
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We keep framing AI like a person, but that changes how we trust it, fear it, and hand power over to it.
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Corporations invaded the net, took it over and turned it into an accelerationist nightmare. But they are ignoring the real world in the process. They believe they are leaving it behind for something abstract and better.
Let them take the net as long as we can take back the real world.
The demand for AI's unbridled growth is reactionary — a way of doubling down on the same old colonizing way of doing things. It doesn't have to be.
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Our job as Team Human is not to succumb to the zero-sum mentality of the wealthy.
They’re the ones who have given up on prosperity.
They are living the nightmare.
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If you're not already following @rushkoff.com on all the medias, at least join me Wednesday morning at 10 eastern, when I join him for post-election analysis -- very unlike other post-election analysis! -- live on YouTube.
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@andrewslack.bsky.social, comedian and writer of Orphans, Empires, and the Search for a Better World, discusses the hidden history of corporate power, the mythic roots of American identity, and how hope - and solar panels - might just save us all.
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