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Hamish CampbellWe Don’t Need More Liberal Techno-Utopianism There’s a lot of #fluffy around these days. Take books like Abundance – dressed up as bold new visions, but really just more of the same old liberal centrism with a shiny, tech-friendly finish. It flirts with Marx at the end, but only to dress up in borrowed credibility. At heart, it’s not socialist, it’s a manifesto to reassure the #mainstreaming chattering class that everything will be OK if we innovate harder and manage smarter. This is blinded feel-good “supply-side liberalism” […] <a class="" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/mastodon?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fhamishcampbell.com%2Fwe-dont-need-more-liberal-techno-utopianism%2F&linkname=We%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Need%20More%20Liberal%20Techno-Utopianism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/reddit?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fhamishcampbell.com%2Fwe-dont-need-more-liberal-techno-utopianism%2F&linkname=We%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Need%20More%20Liberal%20Techno-Utopianism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/linkedin?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fhamishcampbell.com%2Fwe-dont-need-more-liberal-techno-utopianism%2F&linkname=We%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Need%20More%20Liberal%20Techno-Utopianism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/threads?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fhamishcampbell.com%2Fwe-dont-need-more-liberal-techno-utopianism%2F&linkname=We%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Need%20More%20Liberal%20Techno-Utopianism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/bluesky?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fhamishcampbell.com%2Fwe-dont-need-more-liberal-techno-utopianism%2F&linkname=We%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Need%20More%20Liberal%20Techno-Utopianism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/x?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fhamishcampbell.com%2Fwe-dont-need-more-liberal-techno-utopianism%2F&linkname=We%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Need%20More%20Liberal%20Techno-Utopianism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fhamishcampbell.com%2Fwe-dont-need-more-liberal-techno-utopianism%2F&linkname=We%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Need%20More%20Liberal%20Techno-Utopianism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/we-dont-need-more-liberal-techno-utopianism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hamishcampbell.com/we-dont-need-more-liberal-techno-utopianism/</a>

SyulangAussie <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Techbro</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SpaceKaren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpaceKaren</a> explodes and splatters it's techwank over <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Bowen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bowen</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Queensland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Queensland</a> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-30/gilmour-space-technologies-launch-orbital-rocket-bowen/105470024" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-30/gilmour-space-technologies-launch-orbital-rocket-bowen/105470024</a>

kaliwhen people argue that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/X" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#X</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bluesky</a> are better because "tHe EnGaGeMeNt" - so "tHe EnGaGeMeNt" is more important to you than not being on an either <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nazi</a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaire</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbro</a> platform - what kind of person are you?i say no thanks, stay where you are.

RaymondPierreL3<a href="https://aus.social/@fixatedpersonsunit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@fixatedpersonsunit</a> spot on… and only serves to confirms <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechBro</a> manigance.

mel"... nothing makes a privileged man angrier than <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/criticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#criticism</a> of his <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/privilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privilege</a> ..."<a href="https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/enshittification-and-the-bitterness" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/enshittification-and-the-bitterness</a><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaire</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/oligarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oligarch</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbro</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bigtech</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/industry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#industry</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wealth</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#power</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#capitalism</a>

Ricós (NeoDB)finished watching <a href="https://neodb.social/~neodb~/movie/3Y9Jmwa7RCk9lnQANws6YP" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Superman</a> That was surprisingly fun! And no wonder the right are mad about it: for starters, a broligarch and Netanyahu are the villains XD<a href="https://neodb.social/tags/movies/" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#movies</a> <a href="https://neodb.social/tags/superman/" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#superman</a> <a href="https://neodb.social/tags/dc/" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dc</a> <a href="https://neodb.social/tags/jamesgunn/" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jamesGunn</a> <a href="https://neodb.social/tags/palestine/" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#palestine</a> <a href="https://neodb.social/tags/techbro/" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbro</a><a href="https://neodb.social/tags/ersneodb/" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ERSneodb</a>

Faraiwe<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbro</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dumbasses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dumbasses</a>

aww-yawnwhen AI becomes sentient, maybe they too will be labelled as "lazy" <a href="https://vimoh.blog/2025/07/07/tech-ceo-disappointed-to-find-ai-doesnt-want-anyones-job/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://vimoh.blog/2025/07/07/tech-ceo-disappointed-to-find-ai-doesnt-want-anyones-job/</a> <a href="https://lethallava.land/tags/AI" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://lethallava.land/tags/TechBro" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechBro</a> <a href="https://lethallava.land/tags/Vimoh" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vimoh</a>

RaymondPierreL3<a href="https://mastodon.social/@tonycart" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@tonycart</a> Say what you will, but I’m done with centralised <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechBro</a> platforms and their ‘fences’. But… reach isn’t important to me, so…

FaraiweYou can also find it at<a href="https://aicodinghorrors.com/entire-database-is-deleted-cmdawnf93000t24yqw2k7hkf6/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://aicodinghorrors.com/entire-database-is-deleted-cmdawnf93000t24yqw2k7hkf6/</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dumbass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dumbass</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbro</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VibeCoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VibeCoding</a>

Faraiwe"Vibe coding" dumbfucks<a href="https://xcancel.com/jasonlk/status/1946069562723897802" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://xcancel.com/jasonlk/status/1946069562723897802</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VibeCoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VibeCoding</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/stupid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stupid</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbro</a>

RaymondPierreL3<a href="https://aus.social/@emmadavidson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@emmadavidson</a> I run Mint on an old laptop as a second computer that I can jump onto when my microsoft machine eventually stops working with that OS. I also use it as a linux training tool (tinkering with Wine64 atm). So far, I’m very happy with the Linux Mint distro.Getting free of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechBro</a> software is an ongoing tasks. I am a few days away from migrating my blog away from WordPress and onto <a href="https://aus.social/@shlee" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@shlee</a> ‘s enhance.net. Still have a Gmail account I need to get out of - that‘s ongoing too。So much fun…

Charlie McHenry<a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Substack</a> bragging about their new $100 million investment from the <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechBro</a> VC’s and how that will enable them to democratize publishing and do more online community building. Uh-huh. They took big $$ from previous investor Andreessen, who based on his own utterances appears to be a racist fascist. I’m personally not confident, as a previous contributor to the site, that being beholden to right-wing investors is a good thing - on any level. It sure didn’t work out with <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> did it? Now, more of the same in the online <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/DigitalPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalPublishing</a> space. Looks like <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> to me.

Papa Maccus PrimusOmfg I couldn't even get to the midway point of this article before I had so much vomit in my mouth I had to bail. Jmfc. I've got vertigo from all the tech bro horse shit. Please end either me or that shit. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Perplexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Perplexity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechBro</a> <a href="https://flipboard.com/@theverge" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@theverge</a> <a href="https://flipboard.com/@theverge/the-verge-5hobbaa8z/-/a-V_JSVhOjRwuMh8jtBvpsKA%3Aa%3A43611565-%2F0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://flipboard.com/@theverge/the-verge-5hobbaa8z/-/a-V_JSVhOjRwuMh8jtBvpsKA%3Aa%3A43611565-%2F0</a>

Faraiwe<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TurdReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TurdReich</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LoneSkum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoneSkum</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DunningKruger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DunningKruger</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbro</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Grok</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Xitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Xitter</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpaceX</a>

Carmen ZedlerWenn wir unsere Proteste ernst meinen und uns wehren wollen … <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#musk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thiel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#zuckerberg</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bezos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#amazon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbro</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tyranny</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/demokratie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#demokratie</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/boykott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#boykott</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DMFKog5t11U/?img_index=8&igsh=MWQ5enY3bHF2bWxnOQ==" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/p/DMFKog5t11U/?img_index=8&igsh=MWQ5enY3bHF2bWxnOQ==</a>

Faraiwe<a href="https://www.heise.de/news/Oberlandesgericht-Virtuelle-Entwendung-von-Kryptowerten-bleibt-straflos-10484771.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.heise.de/news/Oberlandesgericht-Virtuelle-Entwendung-von-Kryptowerten-bleibt-straflos-10484771.html</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Germany</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crypto</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crime</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbro</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dumbasses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dumbasses</a>

bignoseMost of them remember that one, <a href="https://gamedev.lgbt/@bram" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bram</a>, but they fail to consider that “the default” is often itself garbage.Too many implementors, whether <a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbro</a> or not, will unthinkingly decide “I don't want to make a political decision so I'll go with the default from my culture”. My nerd friends, *that is a political decision*.

skryAlmost 600 people have signed an open letter to...Sequoia Capital after one of its partners, Shaun Maguire, posted [blatantly racist crap] against the Muslim Democratic mayoral candidate in New York City.Maguire, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, posted on X over the weekend that Zohran Mamdani, who won the Democratic primary last month, “comes from a culture that lies about everything” and is out to advance “his Islamist agenda.”<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/07/founders-sign-letter-to-sequoia-on-shaun-maguires-mamdani-remarks.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/07/founders-sign-letter-to-sequoia-on-shaun-maguires-mamdani-remarks.html</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nyc</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbro</a>

aproitz<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Telegram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Telegram</a>-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gr%C3%BCnder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gründer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PavelDurov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PavelDurov</a> ist selber manchmal ganz schön <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bizarr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bizarr</a>. Beschwert sich über die negative französische <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Berichterstattung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Berichterstattung</a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LeMonde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeMonde</a>); gibt aber gleichzeitig dem grössten schwurbelnden <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nichtjournalisten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nichtjournalisten</a> des Planeten ein <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Exklusiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Exklusiv</a>-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Interview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Interview</a>. So fällt es allen ziemlich schwer, den ansonsten charismatischen <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechBro</a> ernstzunehmen. Dann prahl lieber weiter mit deinen Erfolgen, Pavel !<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tuckercarlson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tuckercarlson</a>

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