I suspect they're particularly susceptible to tech solutionism is because they have no other ideas for confronting the wider HE crisis.
November 8, 2026 at 3:04 PM
I suspect they're particularly susceptible to tech solutionism is because they have no other ideas for confronting the wider HE crisis.
The #geekproblem in tech isn't simply about bad software or awkward developers. It's a culture and mindset that puts technical solutions above social needs. It assumes that if something can be built, it should be built, and that every problem is waiting for a technical fix. This is #solutionism.
November 6, 2026 at 6:23 PM
The #geekproblem in tech isn't simply about bad software or awkward developers. It's a culture and mindset that puts technical solutions above social needs. It assumes that if something can be built, it should be built, and that every problem is waiting for a technical fix. This is #solutionism.
The report criticises successive governments for pushing techno-solutionism.
This reduces the complex human phenomenon of migration to a technical problem that can be fixed.
Under the current administration, the solution appears to be total cybernetic control of migrants deemed to be a threat.
This reduces the complex human phenomenon of migration to a technical problem that can be fixed.
Under the current administration, the solution appears to be total cybernetic control of migrants deemed to be a threat.
October 29, 2026 at 12:41 PM
The report criticises successive governments for pushing techno-solutionism.
This reduces the complex human phenomenon of migration to a technical problem that can be fixed.
Under the current administration, the solution appears to be total cybernetic control of migrants deemed to be a threat.
This reduces the complex human phenomenon of migration to a technical problem that can be fixed.
Under the current administration, the solution appears to be total cybernetic control of migrants deemed to be a threat.
At some point people will study how vile and debilitating the Nilekani family has been to India.
Nandan - Modi's tech-solutionism expert
Rohini - Cultural Trojan Horse
Jahnavi - Daughter, and transphobe doctor extraordinaire.
Shows he knows jackshit about education.
m.thewire.in/article/educ...
Nandan - Modi's tech-solutionism expert
Rohini - Cultural Trojan Horse
Jahnavi - Daughter, and transphobe doctor extraordinaire.
Shows he knows jackshit about education.
m.thewire.in/article/educ...
‘Generate Question Papers at the Last Minute With AI’: Nandan Nilekani on Tackling Paper Leaks - The Wire
While speaking at a Bloomberg event, Nilekani, who is heading a task force on educations reforms, said that the possibility of conducting all exams on computers was being evaluated.
m.thewire.in
October 16, 2026 at 2:35 PM
At some point people will study how vile and debilitating the Nilekani family has been to India.
Nandan - Modi's tech-solutionism expert
Rohini - Cultural Trojan Horse
Jahnavi - Daughter, and transphobe doctor extraordinaire.
Shows he knows jackshit about education.
m.thewire.in/article/educ...
Nandan - Modi's tech-solutionism expert
Rohini - Cultural Trojan Horse
Jahnavi - Daughter, and transphobe doctor extraordinaire.
Shows he knows jackshit about education.
m.thewire.in/article/educ...
Advanced Technology Will Not Save Us
"The plot hole in techno-utopianism is that technologies don’t emerge in a vacuum: they are always controlled by somebody, and those somebodies always wind up being the people who control everything else."
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/advanced-t...
"The plot hole in techno-utopianism is that technologies don’t emerge in a vacuum: they are always controlled by somebody, and those somebodies always wind up being the people who control everything else."
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/advanced-t...
Advanced Technology Will Not Save Us
Video reading by Tim Foley:
www.caitlinjohnst.one
October 13, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Additional detail from earlier this year on the process, where layers upon layers of citizenship and voter ID verification have been used to be sure the “right” voters have a representational advantage
Sound familiar? It should /2
techpolicy.press/a-misguided-...
Sound familiar? It should /2
techpolicy.press/a-misguided-...
A Misguided Tech Solution is Putting India's Electoral Integrity at Risk
India’s elections must pivot away from a blind faith in techno-solutionism or risk losing the guaranteed right to vote, writes Amber Sinha.
techpolicy.press
October 11, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Additional detail from earlier this year on the process, where layers upon layers of citizenship and voter ID verification have been used to be sure the “right” voters have a representational advantage
Sound familiar? It should /2
techpolicy.press/a-misguided-...
Sound familiar? It should /2
techpolicy.press/a-misguided-...
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
October 9, 2026 at 6:31 AM
A public scandal involving the mishandling of voter records by the Election Commission of India highlights the fallacy of depending on a centralized system for the friction and realities of human democracy, writes Amber Sinha, contributing editor at Tech Policy Press.
A Misguided Tech Solution is Putting India's Electoral Integrity at Risk
India’s elections must pivot away from a blind faith in techno-solutionism or risk losing the guaranteed right to vote, writes Amber Sinha.
buff.ly
October 7, 2026 at 2:30 AM
A public scandal involving the mishandling of voter records by the Election Commission of India highlights the fallacy of depending on a centralized system for the friction and realities of human democracy, writes Amber Sinha, contributing editor at Tech Policy Press.
And thank you to @alexhanna.bsky.social, Dr. Thema Monroe-White, and @sambiddle.com for joining us for an engaging panel that exposed what's motivating the AI "hype," how AI powers genocide and war operations, and the myth of tech solutionism.
October 6, 2026 at 10:31 PM
And thank you to @alexhanna.bsky.social, Dr. Thema Monroe-White, and @sambiddle.com for joining us for an engaging panel that exposed what's motivating the AI "hype," how AI powers genocide and war operations, and the myth of tech solutionism.
A public scandal involving the mishandling of voter records by the Election Commission of India highlights the fallacy of depending on a centralized system for the friction and realities of human democracy, writes Amber Sinha, contributing editor at Tech Policy Press.
A Misguided Tech Solution is Putting India's Electoral Integrity at Risk
India’s elections must pivot away from a blind faith in techno-solutionism or risk losing the guaranteed right to vote, writes Amber Sinha.
buff.ly
October 4, 2026 at 12:48 PM
A public scandal involving the mishandling of voter records by the Election Commission of India highlights the fallacy of depending on a centralized system for the friction and realities of human democracy, writes Amber Sinha, contributing editor at Tech Policy Press.
A public scandal involving the mishandling of voter records by the Election Commission of India highlights the fallacy of depending on a centralized system for the friction and realities of human democracy, writes Amber Sinha, contributing editor at Tech Policy Press.
A Misguided Tech Solution is Putting India's Electoral Integrity at Risk
India’s elections must pivot away from a blind faith in techno-solutionism or risk losing the guaranteed right to vote, writes Amber Sinha.
buff.ly
October 1, 2026 at 3:54 AM
A public scandal involving the mishandling of voter records by the Election Commission of India highlights the fallacy of depending on a centralized system for the friction and realities of human democracy, writes Amber Sinha, contributing editor at Tech Policy Press.
A public scandal involving the mishandling of voter records by the Election Commission of India highlights the fallacy of depending on a centralized system for the friction and realities of human democracy, writes Amber Sinha, contributing editor at Tech Policy Press.
A Misguided Tech Solution is Putting India's Electoral Integrity at Risk
India’s elections must pivot away from a blind faith in techno-solutionism or risk losing the guaranteed right to vote, writes Amber Sinha.
buff.ly
September 30, 2026 at 12:09 PM
A public scandal involving the mishandling of voter records by the Election Commission of India highlights the fallacy of depending on a centralized system for the friction and realities of human democracy, writes Amber Sinha, contributing editor at Tech Policy Press.
@tante Technical characteristics aside, there's also a social aspect: both Rust and LLMs appeal to people who subscribe to tech-solutionism.
September 21, 2026 at 6:32 AM
@tante Technical characteristics aside, there's also a social aspect: both Rust and LLMs appeal to people who subscribe to tech-solutionism.
There's so much work that remains to be done at the intersection of disability and accessibility before we push tech-solutionism onto it.
Basics: ramps, railings, lifts and braille signs.
Lets increase the coverage of those before pushing: "Tech-whiz solves problems for 1% of disabled people."
Basics: ramps, railings, lifts and braille signs.
Lets increase the coverage of those before pushing: "Tech-whiz solves problems for 1% of disabled people."
September 20, 2026 at 2:28 AM
There's so much work that remains to be done at the intersection of disability and accessibility before we push tech-solutionism onto it.
Basics: ramps, railings, lifts and braille signs.
Lets increase the coverage of those before pushing: "Tech-whiz solves problems for 1% of disabled people."
Basics: ramps, railings, lifts and braille signs.
Lets increase the coverage of those before pushing: "Tech-whiz solves problems for 1% of disabled people."
Jutta Weber examines the booming defence-tech industry, autonomous weapons, venture capital and lobbying, technological solutionism, and the implications of AI warfare for democratic oversight and human control:
Drones and Democracy: Inside the AI Arms Race - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
How defence tech start-ups, kamikaze drones, and AI are reshaping war and eroding democracy
www.rosalux.de
September 18, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Jutta Weber examines the booming defence-tech industry, autonomous weapons, venture capital and lobbying, technological solutionism, and the implications of AI warfare for democratic oversight and human control:
Underneath it all is the tech-solutionist essence. I think solutionism is doomed no matter how it is distributed and packaged.
September 15, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Underneath it all is the tech-solutionist essence. I think solutionism is doomed no matter how it is distributed and packaged.
Song: Mindful Solutionism
Artist: Aesop Rock
Album: Integrated Tech Solutions (2023)
Label: Rhymesayers Entertainment
Time: 11:37 am
Artist: Aesop Rock
Album: Integrated Tech Solutions (2023)
Label: Rhymesayers Entertainment
Time: 11:37 am
September 15, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Song: Mindful Solutionism
Artist: Aesop Rock
Album: Integrated Tech Solutions (2023)
Label: Rhymesayers Entertainment
Time: 11:37 am
Artist: Aesop Rock
Album: Integrated Tech Solutions (2023)
Label: Rhymesayers Entertainment
Time: 11:37 am
So happy that Baroness @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social continues to find my work useful. In Yorkshire Bylines, she draws on reactionary futurism to challenge tech-oligarch fantasies threatening ecology, democracy and health. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
The Champions of Life have to take on the Broligarchs
One Health researchers are inclined towards cooperation and consensus, but they need to challenge the broligarchs’ destructive ideology and solutionism
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
September 15, 2026 at 2:52 PM
So happy that Baroness @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social continues to find my work useful. In Yorkshire Bylines, she draws on reactionary futurism to challenge tech-oligarch fantasies threatening ecology, democracy and health. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
From #OneHealth Congress @yorkshirebylines.co.uk, I reflect on how medical researchers & doctors, geographers & anthropologists understand the true nature of the complex, sophisticated life on our battered planet. Unlike tech oligarchs
@bsacandjac.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
@bsacandjac.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
The Champions of Life have to take on the Broligarchs
One Health researchers are inclined towards cooperation and consensus, but they need to challenge the broligarchs’ destructive ideology and solutionism
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
September 14, 2026 at 10:13 AM
From #OneHealth Congress @yorkshirebylines.co.uk, I reflect on how medical researchers & doctors, geographers & anthropologists understand the true nature of the complex, sophisticated life on our battered planet. Unlike tech oligarchs
@bsacandjac.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
@bsacandjac.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
Historical knowledge is a defense against tech solutionism: it shows how today’s “new” systems often revive old patterns of surveillance, exclusion, and concentrated power.
September 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Historical knowledge is a defense against tech solutionism: it shows how today’s “new” systems often revive old patterns of surveillance, exclusion, and concentrated power.
This well-meaning argument falls into the trap of techno-solutionism: a utopian belief that tech will save us.
If it did, technology would’ve liberated humanity already. The Internet didn’t give us a truly democratic public sphere, for example, but new levers of corporate and state control.
If it did, technology would’ve liberated humanity already. The Internet didn’t give us a truly democratic public sphere, for example, but new levers of corporate and state control.
It enables people to create software so easily that we will be able to move away from the tech monopolies that dominate our lives
September 9, 2026 at 11:24 AM
This well-meaning argument falls into the trap of techno-solutionism: a utopian belief that tech will save us.
If it did, technology would’ve liberated humanity already. The Internet didn’t give us a truly democratic public sphere, for example, but new levers of corporate and state control.
If it did, technology would’ve liberated humanity already. The Internet didn’t give us a truly democratic public sphere, for example, but new levers of corporate and state control.
Incredible investigation into some of the consequences of India's techno-solutionism in governance and welfare delivery.
www.decodeinternet.in/decode/india...
www.decodeinternet.in/decode/india...
India’s Facial Recognition Drive On Hungry Children Is Erasing Them
A Decode investigation finds that India’s use of facial recognition tech in its 50-year-old nutrition welfare programme is now extending to young children, creating new layers of exclusion.
www.decodeinternet.in
September 9, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Incredible investigation into some of the consequences of India's techno-solutionism in governance and welfare delivery.
www.decodeinternet.in/decode/india...
www.decodeinternet.in/decode/india...
What is an "artificial state"? Isn't every concept of state "artificial"? Isn't AI use in this warning just an automation of bureaucracy? Heavily bureaucratic stochastical solutionism on scale. But still it's not tech that's ruling, it's capitalists.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
August 27, 2026 at 12:20 PM
What is an "artificial state"? Isn't every concept of state "artificial"? Isn't AI use in this warning just an automation of bureaucracy? Heavily bureaucratic stochastical solutionism on scale. But still it's not tech that's ruling, it's capitalists.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Great denunciation of Thiel et al., but many such critiques of fascism miss the element of mass psychology that carries them to power. Tech is key here, not just for concentrating wealth, but because machinic social relations make us more susceptible to fascist solutionism.
Tech billionaires would rather get rid of democracy than admit their fascist project is a bad idea.
This week @gilduran.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss how tech billionaires are upending the political system to serve their own ends.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/342_...
This week @gilduran.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss how tech billionaires are upending the political system to serve their own ends.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/342_...
August 24, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Great denunciation of Thiel et al., but many such critiques of fascism miss the element of mass psychology that carries them to power. Tech is key here, not just for concentrating wealth, but because machinic social relations make us more susceptible to fascist solutionism.
New from Human Organization: There’s No App for Healthcare Staff Shortages by Tanja Ahlin
doi.org/10.1080/0018...
#SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology #HumanOrganization #DigitalHealth #Labor #AI
doi.org/10.1080/0018...
#SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology #HumanOrganization #DigitalHealth #Labor #AI
August 22, 2026 at 12:00 PM
New from Human Organization: There’s No App for Healthcare Staff Shortages by Tanja Ahlin
doi.org/10.1080/0018...
#SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology #HumanOrganization #DigitalHealth #Labor #AI
doi.org/10.1080/0018...
#SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology #HumanOrganization #DigitalHealth #Labor #AI