Leftist Lawyer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cstross</span></a></span> brings an incredibly important diary post, linked below.</p><p>Know this acronym: TESCREAL</p><p>It stands for:<br>"transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism (in a very specific context), Effective Altruism, and longtermism."</p><p>And know the names of the billionaire tech-bros advocating for these insane ideas that benefit them specifically, and harm the rest of us intentionally.</p><p>They are: Timnit Gebru, Émile Torres, Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Zuck, Marc Andreesen, Nick Land, and Peter Theil.</p><p>These people are DANGEROUS. They are bullies. They are thieves. And they are just fine with the implicit murder of millions to achieve their goals.</p><p>And, because they're insanely rich, their speech is issued from giant orbiting megaphones. Yours? Not so much. Meaning that, when they saturate the airwaves with their techno-propaganda, we must collectively scream back loud enough to overwhelm their message.</p><p>I vehemently oppose TESCREAL. And I vehemently oppose concentrations of capital that allow such minority ideas to drown our majority opinions. Every TESCREAL is a policy failure. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Enough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enough</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EatTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EatTheRich</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWarButClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoWarButClassWar</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TESCREAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TESCREAL</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat</span><span class="invisible">ic/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html</span></a></p>