I take his point to be: those who work in the tech industry and in academia bear responsibility for their part in the rise of companies like Meta, and their consequences. Which is obviously true. Blaming billionaires is disempowering and doesn’t explain where billionaires came from.

I’m confused by the unwillingess of people to take responsibility for their own lives and actions. Drop responsibility and agency, and you cannot be anything but a slave.

What happened to their UI? It’s so abrasive now it’s hard to look at.

Reminiscent of so much online discourse, it’s shouty and unnuanced.

Interesting point. It’s good to see someone lending a critical eye to method.

Having seen one of his talks on efficiency vs resilience, I’m extremely doubtful fascist is appropriate. For one, fascists are ultra-capitalist and he was pretty scathing of the capitalist mode iirc.

The article is also clearly critical of The Empire, which is standard sci-fi fascism.