Michael Honey

@froztbyte kinda, but with a different emphasis. The author talks about specific ideas and their origins, and asks that try to build a positive left futurism, and not cede the field to a subset of 2020s Silicon Valley interpretations of those ideas. If eg transhumanism was interesting and worth exploring before Peter Thiel turned up, it can still be so afterwards.

@froztbyte maybe my breakfast (untoasted muesli, coconut yoghurt) started me in a different frame of mind. I read it as showing that a lot of these ideas, which, yes, some jerks (but also plenty of non-jerks) are into, have deeper left histories, and deserve serious consideration.

@self the tldr is that lumping everything TESCREAL together into “assholes are into this, therefore it is bad” means that a lot of worthwhile and important ideas, many of which were developed by left thinkers, get lost.

(that said, “anti-TESCREAL conspiracy” is I think itself an unfortunate compression)

@apocraphilia @sailor_sega_saturn a worthwhile read: https://medium.com/institute-for-ethics-and-emerging-technologies/conspiracy-theories-left-futurism-and-the-attack-on-tescreal-456972fe02aa