Feminine Programming

Rejecting the media machine

I recently found myself explaining how AI is raising demand for electricity and will cause the rise of prices for electricity for the everyday person as well as the implications of digital IDs to my parents. We were sitting on a park bench watching my kids after we went to the town homecoming parade. Sitting in a little park, in our little town, with my little kids, we discussed big events and ideas. Events and ideas that both feel as if they are moving too rapidly and in a way which no one actually consented to.

All of the media I have recently been consuming about the likes of Palintir and the surveillance state and AI and Meta Ray Ban wearables and Digital IDs has put me off of media. There is the ever present mental tug-of-war between “I need to know things” (aka the oft-parroted “I need to be informed”) and “I don’t want to look anymore” (aka “I need to go full hermit-in-the-woods” ), and the woods are a-calling once again.

The thing is, I already live in the middle of the woods.…