iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I Expected Tech Fatalism. Americans Are Putting Up a Remarkable Fight Instead. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/o...

And beyond that horizon? What does the data center backlash tell us about the country’s attitude toward growth and progress and change in other domains? The answer isn’t exactly clear, since so much of our economy and future has been wagered on this one bet that it has begun to look less like a novel technology than a new social and economic model, imposed from above.

Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Generative AI is a prime example of the extractive circuit of contemporary capitalism: massive data appropriation, hidden and precarious data work, and hyperscale data centers that create a host of socio-environmental conflicts. Second part of the essay: medium.com/@j_camachor/...

medium.com

An Inconvenient Technology (Part 2)

Generative AI and the Extractive Circuit

020

Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Like many others, over the last couple of years, I've spent many hours trying to make sense of "AI" (and of my own concerns regarding "AI"). I wrote this first piece, which connects disparate pieces and frames "AI" as a politically inconvenient technology. medium.com/@j_camachor/...

medium.com

An Inconvenient Technology (Part 1)

Excitement and Concern around Generative AI

230

Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Motion to redefine VUCA as Violent, Unfair, Confusing, and Absurd.

010

Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

If you’re interested in transition design and transition studies, or in more general issues around sustainability, regeneration, and social justice, I highly recommend this book. As the title suggests, it’s a critical engagement with discourses around “abundance”, popular in the US right now. But…

141

Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I shared this piece with @jemgilbert.bsky.social after listening to an excellent recent episode of ACFM. There’s a great opportunity to better connect critical and political theory as well as cultural studies with futures studies and applied foresight. novaramedia.com/2025/09/21/w...

novaramedia.com

What Happened to Our Dreams of the Future? | Novara Media

A weird-left explanation of how the future lost its shine, with ideas from Max Weber, Kate Raworth and Jonathan White.

073

Reposted by Jorge Camacho

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

theatlantic.com

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

14843881404

Reposted by Jorge Camacho

Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Decomputing as a response to AI and to the underlying conditions that make AI seem inevitable.

26020

Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

From “Everything everywhere all at once” to “some things somewhere eventually” in the span of a week. #tariffs #ArtOfTheDeal

010

Reposted by Jorge Camacho

Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

3 alternatives to new years resolutions for seeding and steering change in your life/world/organization/community/family, a 🧵

1010737

Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This is a good documentary about prosperity without growth, including debates around degrowth and green growth. I would’ve left out the sufficiency “experiment” with the family for many reasons. Otherwise, it’s a good overview of a central issue of our times. youtu.be/JUPrlfBoSzI?...

youtu.be

Is prosperity without economic growth possible? | DW Documentary

YouTube video by DW Documentary

031

Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

An artifact from the present that somehow feels like both an artifact from the future and an artifact from the past. www.msb.se/en/advice-fo...

130

Reposted by Jorge Camacho

Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

To paraphrase or, rather, hijack that great phrase by Tom Atlee, I've come to believe that things will get worse and worse, faster and faster before they get better and better, slower and slower.

021

Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

The present is not here anymore — it’s just disappearing unevenly.

050

Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Newsflash: Country responsible for 13% of global CO2 emissions and 25% of global cumulative emissions celebrates growing richer while reducing emissions at a rate that is 3x slower than needed to meet their internationally agreed mitigation targets.

scientificamerican.com

U.S. Emissions Fell by 2 Percent in 2023, Even as Economy Grew

Collapsing coal use drove a reduction in overall U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, but transportation emissions are still on the rise

020

Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

To paraphrase or, rather, hijack that great phrase by Tom Atlee, I've come to believe that things will get worse and worse, faster and faster before they get better and better, slower and slower.

021

Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

This is such a great, speculative, hyper-quotable, essay by @vgr.bsky.social conceptualizing Modern AI as a kind of discovery, a camera that allows to peer into “computational reality” (or, perhaps, I’d say, computational possibility?). open.substack.com/pub/ribbonfa...

open.substack.com

A Camera, Not an Engine

Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality

110

Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

This is the best critique I’ve read so far of Andreessen’s techno-optimist manifesto. It nails something I’ve thought about since I read the original e/acc pieces that inspired Andreessen, which is that… 1/5 open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

open.substack.com

Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?

On Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto"

100

Reposted by Jorge Camacho

Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Marc Andreessen, who runs one of the biggest Silicon Valley venture capital firms, wrote a "manifesto" today labeling “social responsibility" and "tech ethics" teams "the enemy." His firm, a16z, recently pivoted from crypto/NFTs/Web3 to American military and defense contractor technology.

1531162390

Jorge Camacho @jcamachor.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Significant paper. Having said that, I wish those efficiency and quality gains would be leveraged to advance a semi-automated/augmented, cyborgian-centaurian four-day workweek instead of the workload rebound effect to which they will probably be deployed. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/centaurs-a...

oneusefulthing.org

Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier

I think we have an answer on whether AIs will reshape work....

030