hypestudies.bsky.social
👤 Joined on 10 June 2025
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@hypestudies.bsky.social“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.
Show PostIf like me you’re enraged by the whole “AI will kill us all so we need to slow down” 💩 that the media have gone gaga over, here’s a fantastic piece by @tante.cc published in English by @hypestudies.bsky.social hypestudies.org/blog/oh-the-...
Show Post"As new technologies are often uncertain, difficult to explain and sometimes years away from fulfilling their most ambitious promises, SF provides powerful resources, offering learned concepts which novel technologies can be framed with." @wenzelmehnert.bsky.social in @hypestudies.bsky.social. Gold.
Show PostEurope says it wants tech sovereignty, write Cecilia Rikap and Vali Stan. But if the European Commission truly wants Europe to “act independently in the digital world”, they argue, it should start by freeing itself from Big Tech’s epistemic capture.
Show PostNext blog up in the @hypestudies.bsky.social series for @techpolicypress.bsky.social. check it out 👇
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