Ah yes, CES 2026: where a $14M robot can now bring you a soda—slowly, loudly, and after a firmware update. But sure, let’s call it 'physical AI' and not 'a Roomba with ambition.' 🤖🥤 #CES2026 #TechOptimism

🔍 Ah, the sweet irony of a tech optimist turning sour on the internet 🍋. With a career built on code and hope, Mr. Reitz finally discovers his epiphany: the very net he helped weave is now a tangled mess of doom. Bravo, Captain Obvious, on your groundbreaking realization that the internet is more twisted than a pretzel! 🥨🚀
https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2025-12-28-the_internet_is_a_net_negative #techoptimism #internetirony #digitaldisillusionment #tangledweb #bittertruth #HackerNews #ngated

**Ưu tiên AI: Tài liệu optimist từ nhà nghiên cứu OAI Lukasz Kaiser!**
Bosch more scalings, tin tưởng cao vào số liệu mới, cải thiện nhanh year 2, mô hình cập nhật trọng số. 🚀
#OAI #AI #NghiênCứu #TínhThông #TROLL
#H papiers #TechOptimism #Miracle

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1oez73i/interesting_optimistic_quotes_from_oai_researcher/

Ah yes, just a *simple prompt* away from replacing recruiters. Because hiring is famously easy, emotionally neutral, and never involves humans lying to each other on Zoom. 🔥🤖 #AI #TechOptimism #WhatCouldGoWrong

🌊✨ A massive thank you to @jerry and his fantastic blue-ocean.social server for introducing me to Bluesky! I've created a new account: @debby.blue-ocean.social 🚀💙

With a decentralized server, I'm excited to see how I can maintain my privacy while enjoying all the benefits Bluesky has to offer 🌐🔒. I'll be sure to keep you all updated on my journey and share my thoughts on this Twitter alternative!

The platform's emphasis on user autonomy is a breath of fresh air, and while it seems to have less open-source technology themes than Mastodon, the overall vibe is incredibly refreshing 🌈! I really appreciate the tech-nerdiness in the Fediverse, but working in tech, I think it's essential to keep in touch with people without programming knowledge to stay connected to the broader society 😅.

At first glance, Bluesky feels like the old Twitter but with a much more positive twist.

Here's to new beginnings and the future of decentralized social media! 🙌💬

#Bluesky #Decentralization #SocialMedia #TechOptimism #PrivacyMatters #NewBeginnings #DecentralizedSocialMedia #Bsky #TwitterAlternative #SocialMediaRevolution 🌊✨

Happy birthday to ARPANET, the forerunner of the modern internet! 53 years ago, the first message was sent over this pioneering network, paving the way for a world of interconnection and innovation.

As a tech enthusiast, I am constantly amazed by the ways the internet has transformed our lives, allowing us to communicate, learn and share ideas across boundaries and borders. From social media to e-commerce, from telemedicine to remote work, the internet has become an essential part of our daily routines, enabling us to connect with others and access a wealth of information at our fingertips.

#ARPANET #InternetAnniversary #Transhumanism #TechInnovation
#InternetHistory #Networking #DigitalRevolution #Innovation #Communication #Cyberculture #OnlineCommunity #TechHerstory #NetNeutrality #OpenSource #Decentralization #DataPrivacy #Cybersecurity #DigitalRights #Accessibility #Inclusion #SocialImpact #DigitalTransformation #FutureTech #TechOptimism #InternetOfThings #AI

🔗 https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969

The fundamental premise of human beings is to exercise control and dominance over others. It would have started as a biological imperative for survival. Now there is a strong tendency to be autocratic in almost every walk of life through a nexus of power and surveillance. This leads us to being corrupted and addicted either to fear or money (~ profit) or both at various degrees. Technology has always been a driver to this unlimited human greed. Any technology that initially gets deployed as a public good eventually gets architected and channelised to promote these aspects directly or indirectly and thus further evolves in the direction of profit and control by influencing economic policies, practices and information management. The public good that the technology generates remains as collateral benefits in the long term. The urge to profit, in the short term, from every possible transaction drives us crazy. The ecological damages (pollution, micro plastics, desertification, deforestation etc.) and climate impact due to creation of technology driven infrastructures are obviously overlooked. This has led to significant asymmetric distribution of wealth (as per this source) as summarised below.

1. half of the world's net wealth belongs to the top 1%.
2. top 10% of adults hold 85%, while the bottom 90% hold the remaining 15% of the world's total wealth.
3. top 30% of adults hold 97% of the total wealth.

Science-fiction writer Ted Chiang, whose work inspired the movie "Arrival," spoke at the 2023 GeekWire Summit in Seattle.

"Technology can solve certain problems, but I think the biggest problems that we face are not problems that have technological solutions," Chiang said in response. "Climate change probably does not have a technological solution. Wealth inequality does not have a technological solution. Most of these are problems of political will.

"Tech Zionism" brought to you by Balaji is the latest creepy libertarian idea from those pushing the Network State as a modern version of the ideas of people like Ayn Rand.

https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

@404mediaco please keep an eye on these creeps. The tie ins to tech companies and their leaders/financiers is troubling. Makes you wonder what you supporting when you use some products and services. Not to mention who has access to your data.

#ethics #politics #tech #libertarian #anarchist #networkState #techOptimism #fascism #

Finally, someone - in this case Matthew Iglesias, has taken on the #TechBro “technology optimists” who naively believe that we can ‘tech’, ‘build’, and ‘birth’ out way out of our current problem spaces. They’re wrong and it’s rubbish of course. Impulsive, immature naïveté by folks who SHOULD know better. This kind of insane, happy optimism in the face of overpopulation, climate change, a falling birthrate, war and polarization is just arrogant folly. They argue all technology is inherently good, uh-huh. Here’s Iglesia’s worthy takedown https://www.slowboring.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web&r=3icfk #technolgy #TechnologyOptimism #TechOptimism #Naivete #SiliconValley

ugh.

went down a rabbit-hole about Marc Andreesen that took a detour into Jeffrey Epstein's MIT bribe-money, his rape ranch in New Mexico, and his dreams of a bespoke master race with his DNA. stories of bespoke billionaire futures brought me back to Andreessen and this 2014 effort to peddle his transhuman eugenics bullshit before he called it #techOptimism

"The tech industry's God complex is getting out of control | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2014/06/13/the_tech_industrys_god_complex_is_getting_out_of_control/

another from 2019... and i wasn't wrong:

"the next few years are gonna be like 1984, but the party are the Animal Farm inbred Republican pigs aided by cartoonishly evil silicon valley goons, all licking at the taint of an ex-Soviet president and his soul-mate, an al-Saud heir Bond villain... and they're all pedophiles

#techOptimism
#fascism

from 2020:

Gates’ lifelong obsession is population control. his brand of fascism is called #technolibertarianism.

Silicon Valley technolibertarians are, “#apartheid, but make it tech”.

that's why they’re obsessed with AI #surveillance, genetics, #eugenics, GMOs, Mars (for us not them).

#techOptimism #fascism

me, from 2014

"BIG DATA IS ALL ABOUT THE ALGORITHMS THAT WILL MAXIMIZE PROFITS by not having to "waste money" in employees... that's #technolibertarianism

#techOptimism #fascism

Vandaag wordt op de Dam gedemonstreerd tegen #ChatControle Informeer jezelf over dit Europese voorstel https://chatcontrole.nl/ Lees hoe tientallen miljoenen zijn geïnvesteerd in de lobby om deze risicovolle technologie in de wet te krijgen https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/ Lees hoe iemand bij een onterechte detectie door dit soort technologie al zijn datatoegang verloor zonder mogelijkheid tot beroep https://archive.ph/TYPd1 Veel rechten dreigen zo door #TechOptimism te sneuvelen. #ChatControl #CSA

Heart transplants are nothing short of a miracle of medicine. But at the same time, it requires someone to lose their life for doctors to save a life. We're literally trading lives. Also, there are just not enough hearts to go around, especially for kids with heart problems.

Enter Dr. Doris Taylor, who is building hearts from scratch, using stem cells. https://www.allevi3d.com/building-a-heart-from-scratch/

Now, that's a reason for #techoptimism

"We can mitigate extant inequalities by tweaking the tech we have, if we would only choose to do so. Instead, we wax poetic about, and spend gazillions on, trying to achieve the Singularity." - @arstechnica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/get-used-to-disappointment-why-technology-often-doesnt-meet-the-hype/

#ArsTechnica #TechOptimism #Inventions #TechHype

Here's a bit of #techoptimism for your hump day: AI detected breast cancer in scans 4 years (!) before it developed. This can help doctors identify areas that are high risk, but might otherwise go unnoticed. #healthtech

This week's #techoptimism: a new mRNA based virus for the plague (yes, *that* plague) proves to be 100 % effective. https://interestingengineering.com/health/mrna-vaccine-plague-bacteria-effective?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

Wired 1.01 should have been next to the complete set of Mondo2000 but it's gone. What I did find was Wired 6.01 - The 5th Anniversary edition - "CHANGE IS GOOD" containing a message from the Second World, "Art & Corruption Bruce Sterling in St Petersburg on what's really going on in Russia".

Also Wired - Mind Grenades - Manifesto From The Future. A 96 special edition.

#Techoptimism

Today’s bit of #techoptimism: While 2022 saw many unfortunate layoffs in the #Tech sector, job growth in funded tech startups in #Africa was styring, and the number of new jobs created nearly doubled from 2021, and the sector bringing in more than USD 3bn in investments. Africa’s tech sector is bringing both jobs and innovations to the continent. https://disrupt-africa.com/2023/02/24/jobs-created-by-funded-african-tech-startups-almost-doubled-in-2022/