Michael Honey @assemblag.es Design/tech/art/environment person, living in Tasmania. I want us to build a brighter, kinder future, and I want to have fun while we do it. Current project: slooowly building a backyard sauna
@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)