Personal tech, social media, and the “decline of humanity” Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt presented a forceful analysis of the damage cellphones and social media are doing to our cognition and civic fabric, while calling for renewed action to ward off the...

"Life After Babel:
#Democracy and #HumanDevelopment in the Fractured, Lonely World That #Technology Gave Us" –
lecture at #MIT
news.mit.edu/2026/persona...

"The good news is, there is human agency."

#hightech #hitech #emergingtech #socialmedia #smartphones #artificialintelligence #AI #techlash

TikTok trend leaves 9-year-old boy with severe burns from microwaved ‘NeeDoh’ toy

wgntv.com/western-subu.... #HumaneTech #TechLash #AIharms #Section230 #PredatoryTech

Gordon-Leavitt on Section 230 sunset bill: ‘I want to see this thing pass 100 to zero’

thehill.com/blogs/in-the.... #HumaneTech #TechLash #AIharms #Section230 #PredatoryTech

Joseph Gordon-Levitt to advocate for Section 230 reform at Capitol on Wednesday

thehill.com/blogs/in-the...

#HumaneTech #TechLash #AIharms #Section230 #PredatoryTech

I’d feel safer if you left me alone. Subverted phone ad. #techlash #datacentres #youarecontent #davos2026 #streetart #streetartuk #billboard #Camden #London

Trying to unGoogle myself is taking longer than expected with photos. It made me wonder just how much crap there is being stored in #datacentres if my collection is anything to go by. #techlash #youarecontent #verifyyouareahuman #streetart #streetartuk

Since Gmail decided it would feed all my emails in to its AI machine unless i turned this off i decided to move away from Google,Proton Mail has a free service check it out @proton.me also has a VPN. moving my photos from Google Photos to Proton Drive is taking a bit longer. #techlash #youarecontent

As US Communities Start Fighting Back, Many Datacenters are Blocked - Slashdot America's tech companies and data center developers "are increasingly losing fights in communities where people don't want to live next to them, or even near them," reports the Associated Press: Communities across the United States are reading about — and learning from — each other's b...

Data center boom faces local revolt! 🏘️ Angry towns push back—power, land, & quiet at stake. ⚡️#Techlash 🤯

Source: news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/05/0445216/a...

Auto Tech Pilot (Remastered) YouTube video by The Fall - Topic

“And I really think this computer thing is getting out of hand
And I think this tech pilot isn't going to land”

🖥️ 📉 💥

#Techlash
#Boomerslop
#FallFriday

youtu.be/Hx0TxCpfYZs?...

French lawmakers progress tax on American Big Tech amid huge pushback | POLITICO Basically all European tech regulation is envy & avarice, not user protection: France’s National Assembly voted Tuesday night in favor of hiking a digital service tax on tech companies includin…

French lawmakers progress tax on American Big Tech amid huge pushback | POLITICO
https://alecmuffett.com/article/119022
#TechLash #france

Global Leaders, AI Pioneers Demand Superintelligence Ban, Citing Existential Risk - WinBuzzer Over 800 global leaders, tech pioneers, and public figures have signed a statement demanding a ban on superintelligence development, citing existential risks.

Global Leaders, AI Pioneers Demand Superintelligence Ban, Citing Existential Risk

#AI #Superintelligence #AIRegulation #AISafety #Techlash #ExistentialRisk #FutureofLife #AIEthics #TechPolicy #OpenAI #Meta #GeoffreyHinton #SteveWozniak

winbuzzer.com/2025/10/22/g...

Red vs. Silicon - Claire Lehman and Balaji

#techlash #techbacklash #politics #wealth

Join us for a conversation about the proliferation of forms of social engineering
in our contemporary digital societies on CDI TV on Thursday, 6 March!
www.youtube.com/watch […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]

Join us for a conversation about the proliferation of forms of social engineering in our contemporary digital societies on CDI TV on Thursday, 6 March!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v7t...
#ArtificialSocieties #Symposium #DigitalSociology #Techlash
@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social

Incredible and bang-on Big Tech #techlash #rant by @edzitron.com about the fixation on growth and the antagonistic and exploitative relationship tech co’s have towards their consumer.

Comes complete with calls to action.

#GaslitNation
#Leguminati

Also check out his #DeepSeek takes in his podcast.

Opinion | What Elon Musk Wants The journalist Kara Swisher discusses Elon Musk's goals in government — and the factors that have led to his radicalization.

#Truth about Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, & other tech CEOs:

“They’re trying to cosplay a version of a man that seems pathetic to me but gives them great comfort.”

@karaswisher.bsky.social on @ezraklein.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
#Techlash #BigTech #TechAccountability #RegulateTech

Le Monde bid adieu to X. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a... #ConsciousDecoupling #TechLash

Tech Policy Press - Technology and Democracy Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. We publish opinion and analysis.

The #Techlash Will Not Disappear Under Trump 2.0 | TechPolicy.Press www.techpolicy.press...

Big ideas: four teams focusing on subjects ranging from #azadi and imaginaries of liberation to social engineering after #techlash have received funding for 2025 events via the latest Sociological Review Seminar Series grant round.

Read about the winners: buff.ly/4f7jz36

Meaning of #techlash TECHLASH anglicism derived, in turn from backlash, a strong reaction of rejection by a large number of people, in particular against a political party or social group: The murder produced a backlash against white racism. Techlash is a technolog.. techlash

Significado de #techlash TECHLASH anglicismo derivado, a su vez de backlash, una fuerte reacción de rechazo por un gran número de personas, en particular contra un partido político o grupo social: El asesinato produjo un backlash contra el racismo blanco. Techlash e.. techlash

Significado de #techlash O anglicismo techlash derivava, por sua vez, de uma forte reação de rejeição por um grande número de pessoas, em particular contra um partido político ou grupo social: O assassinato produziu uma reação contra o racismo branco. Techlash é um.. techlash

Labour plans to make tech giants liable for reimbursing victims of online fraud, report | …what could possibly go wrong? It also proposes expanding the Economic Crime Act to include an offence for tech companies that fail to prevent scams on their platforms.

Labour plans to make tech giants liable for reimbursing victims of online fraud, report | …what could possibly go wrong?
https://alecmuffett.com/article/109982
#fraud #regulation #techlash

Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s open letter to mark the occasion of the Web’s 35th Birthday.

Tim Berners-Lee writes an open letter on the occasion of the World Wide Web's 35th anniversary..:

📝 medium.com/@timberners_...

#fz_links #OpenWeb #TechLash #BreakOpenTheSilos

New @knightfdn #techlash report has some interesting insights on Americans' views on privacy:

So @Reuvencarlyle and the #waleg should listen to everything @JustinBrookman has to say about #SB6281. If companies had followed just a few of the things he's recommended over the years, we may have avoided the privacy #techlash animating all of this!

"Russian authorities characterized Google as a U.S. influence tool that would meddle in their elections." The #techlash is real!

If the #techlash has taught us anything, it's that there's a perception that the "dynamic, competitive market" isn't really there. Unfortunately, the perceived failure of competition laws is being used as an excuse to weaken data protection laws.

Soros the latest to board the #techlash bandwagon. Please, taming the tech titans seems like a lot of wishful thinking http://wapo.st/2nh9g4n?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.e21ff7138608