the human frame
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2026
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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
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I feel like so much of the TESCREAL narrative is about a particular kind of line-goes-up futurism that something about an egalitarian or democratic future could help demonstrate where our vision differs and foreground where their ideology is fundamentally authoritarian. The word "democratic" is probably unusable in a US context, regrettably. I'd also like to snipe at the longtermists specifically and emphasize making the future better by solving the problems that are right in front of us now rather then ignoring them and hoping they go away.
Working Today for a Free and Equal Tomorrow or something?
Honestly, I say we just mug what's left of the Situationist International and take their shit over
Society for Egalitarian Technology and Ethical Computation
Tech Cult Watch ?
What kind of activities are intended exactly, journalism, lobbying?
Hmmm...
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Reaction Watch (like retraction watch but, you know. reactionaries)
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Mad At Reactionary Techies
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Action Against Computer Cults
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Computer Users Against Reactionary Losers
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Silicon Valley Antifa
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???
I think anything with language about advocacy, speaking out, justice, fairness etc. is good because it contrasts with the EA belief that public policy must only be discussed in a totally values neutral way with any personal standpoints optimized out.
poo poo pee pee gang
Nowtermism
Or otherwise something drawing attention to the problems that exist in the world today, as I feel that’s the big antithesis to everything TESCREALists worry about (besides the racism, of course).
the Association for Software Sanity
with corresponding conference the Association for Software Sanity Home for Originating Less Entropy
Global Organisation Against TESCREAL (and) Surveillance Entrepreneurship
“Hmmmm… let’s see if a relevant domain name is available… com, no… org, no…maybe something less common… let’s try cx,…GRAHHHHHHH!!! NOOOO!!!”
WressLong?
Pile Of Opposed People!
Per contemptum ad astra.
This seems a good time to remember Dale Carrico, the Berkeley rhetorician and Hannah Arendt fan who was opposing what he dubbed "superlative" futurological discourse, as long ago as 2009.
I'd never heard of him but this curriculum for a class about futurology seems great and pointed.
Both ranting and raving will be involved.
Hmm....how about R.A.V.I.N.G: Rise Against Voracious IT Nazi Ghouls?
The Centre for Actual Creativity
I wonder how much would it cost to have a booth at Fringe to stir trouble with?
Grounded Humanists, perhaps?
getting there, tho i fear the New Atheist failure mode
Yeah, and to be clear I’m unabashedly a humanist myself, but at this point in time I have to treat “Humanist” in org names as a red flag.
...Justified Luddites?
“Luddites” for short.