Red Team Blues and the Social Dimensions of Technology
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Fear of Climate Lockdowns
The fear that climate lockdowns will be used as a pretext to limit the movements of everyday working people while elites violate those rules with impunity. And when I hear crypto people say centralization, financial interdiction, you know,centralization and financial processes that allow states or other powerful actors to decide who can and can't have money are wielded in ways that are unaccountable and often sinister. It's not wrong to say that this stuff is going to happen. But then I look at their methods and I look at kind of their, I guess their epistemology, like what they blame this on and what they think will solve it. So many useful hours were wasted, so much energy
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