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I'm off for now. This platform no longer tends to engender productive conversations. Website: https://t.co/saXVwJz1Zy Mastodon: @Rushkoff@social.coop Bluesky:@Rushkoff

Hastings on Hudson, NY
Joined June 2008
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Why I left Twitter/X and where to find me.
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I'm doing a free lecture and gathering in Japan, including a book party! My first and, likely, only visit in this lifetime. I'd love to meet you. October 17.
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著者本人の生の声を、どうかこの機会にご自分の目で、目撃していただきたいと思います。『デジタル生存競争』の著者、ダグラス・ラシュコフの来日講演の詳細はこちら。
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The hidden history of modern machine intelligence has more to do with medieval poetry and Russian folktales than the myths being told in Silicon Valley. A very different conversation about AI with Dennis Yi Tenen, author of Literary Theory for Robots.
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Ep. 265 Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and author of the forthcoming Literary Theory For Robots Dennis Yi Tenen shares the hidden history of modern...
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RT @DailyZeitgeist: We had @rushkoff on episode 1557 ‘Why Billionaire Apocalypse Bunkers Won’t Protect Them’ - listen now! .
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Going on CSpan/BookTV at noon EST for two hours! It's a call-in, so please come and let's talk! About books, my books, writing, tech bro lunacy. All are welcome.
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Let the robots do certainty. We humans are at our best when we can stay in the unresolved space of uncertainty. And it turns out there's scientific evidence supporting this.
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Ep. 264 Award-winning author and journalist Maggie Jackson shares some of the insights of her new book, Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure.
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Hey Japan: I'm coming to Tokyo! My event - "The Battle for Digital Survival: Who Will Survive?" (how they translated "Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires") - Tuesday Oct 17 at 2p, Hibiya Library and Cultural Center Convention Hall (B1F Large Hall).
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RT @NeseLSD: This new paper, which argues that the AI hype & psychedelics hype are interconnected, is possibly my most ambitious work. It s….
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Abstract Background and Aims While many scholars have called attention to similarities between the earlier SSRI hype and the ongoing hype for psychedelic medications, the rhetoric of psychedelic hype...
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RT @Jonnynono: I wasn't really eager to relive the toxic ol' days of Y2K, but Alex Kazemi's raunchy, harrowing and heartbreaking debut nove….
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“Never before have I read a book of fiction in which I felt almost like a background character,” writes ex-MTV correspondent John Norris about Alex Kazemi’s provocative new novel.
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Hoy es el día! Gracias a Capitan Swing! Hola España!.
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Douglas @Rushkoff, escritor: “La élite tecnológica se prepara para el apocalipsis, ve cerca el fin de la civilización”. Disecciona en su último libro la mentalidad de los milmillonarios del sector tecnológico y su oscura visión del mundo. Por @ManuGPascual
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RT @cscolari: El último apague la luz. Reflexiones en tiempos de fuga a cargo de @rushkoff vía @Capitan_Swing 😎💪 @piscitelli @julitoalons….
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Do your customers know more about your products than you do? A new monologue from me about how we measure ourselves and employees in terms of utility instead of true passion. And why that's a problem.
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Ep. 262 Working at the intersection of science, technology, and culture, Kevin Slavin introduces us to the weird and wonderful world of microbial sensing — and what pandemics can teach us about the...
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We humans are all part of the same goo. Kevin Slavin shares the weird and wonderful world of microbial sensing — and what our community poop can teach us about the game of life.
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Ep. 262 Working at the intersection of science, technology, and culture, Kevin Slavin introduces us to the weird and wonderful world of microbial sensing — and what pandemics can teach us about the...
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RT @QC_News: Douglas @rushkoff, Media Theory and Digital Economics professor at Queens College, is @TIME Magazine's Person of the Week. @qc….
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You guys are the best.
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🎉 Happy #BookBirthday to SURVIVAL OF THE RICHEST! . ✍️ Douglas Rushkoff (@rushkoff / @wwnorton). 📚 Genre: #SocialScience / #MediaStudies . Read our review →
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RT @porchlightbooks: 🎉 Happy #BookBirthday to SURVIVAL OF THE RICHEST! . ✍️ Douglas Rushkoff (@rushkoff / @wwnorton). 📚 Genre: #SocialScien….
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RT @jasonpwoodbury: "I think we desperately need art to believe we are in the moment we're in. I think things have gone so far off the rail….
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Ep. 261 Author and activist Naomi Klein and Douglas Rushkoff talk about her new book, Doppelganger, and take a trip into the mirror world.
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Journey to the upside-down with .@NaomiAKlein as we stare into the conspiratorial mirror and learn more about ourselves than we might expect. Let's all meet our Doppelgangers on the new .@teamhumanshow .
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Ep. 261 Author and activist Naomi Klein and Douglas Rushkoff talk about her new book, Doppelganger, and take a trip into the mirror world.
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