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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

I'm in a pile of excellent people opposed to the TESCREALists at this trying time in history. We need a name.

We have a list of possibles, but it's actually hard to pick a nice name that doesn't sound like an EA front group!

An initialism for S.N.E.E.R. probably won't be the sort of thing we're after lol.

What's a name that's (a) nice and polite sounding (b) says at least a bit what it actually is (c) doesn't sound like an EA front group?

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[-] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 2 points 3 hours ago

Association Opposing Greed and Idiocy.

Doesn't lend itself to snickering. Gets the point across. Hard to turn into "well actually the real greed is sharing".

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 3 points 11 hours ago

the human frame

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 4 points 14 hours ago

I feel like so much of the TESCREAL narrative is about a particular kind of line-goes-up futurism that something about an egalitarian or democratic future could help demonstrate where our vision differs and foreground where their ideology is fundamentally authoritarian. The word "democratic" is probably unusable in a US context, regrettably. I'd also like to snipe at the longtermists specifically and emphasize making the future better by solving the problems that are right in front of us now rather then ignoring them and hoping they go away.

Working Today for a Free and Equal Tomorrow or something?

[-] istewart@awful.systems 3 points 23 hours ago

Honestly, I say we just mug what's left of the Situationist International and take their shit over

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

Society for Egalitarian Technology and Ethical Computation

[-] zogwarg@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

Tech Cult Watch ?

What kind of activities are intended exactly, journalism, lobbying?

[-] maol@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

I think anything with language about advocacy, speaking out, justice, fairness etc. is good because it contrasts with the EA belief that public policy must only be discussed in a totally values neutral way with any personal standpoints optimized out.

[-] maol@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

Hmmm...

  • Reaction Watch (like retraction watch but, you know. reactionaries)

  • Mad At Reactionary Techies

  • Action Against Computer Cults

  • Computer Users Against Reactionary Losers

  • Silicon Valley Antifa

  • ???

[-] aninjury2all@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago
[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

poo poo pee pee gang

[-] rhamph@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

Nowtermism

Or otherwise something drawing attention to the problems that exist in the world today, as I feel that’s the big antithesis to everything TESCREALists worry about (besides the racism, of course).

[-] Mitchell_Porter@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

This seems a good time to remember Dale Carrico, the Berkeley rhetorician and Hannah Arendt fan who was opposing what he dubbed "superlative" futurological discourse, as long ago as 2009.

[-] maol@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

I'd never heard of him but this curriculum for a class about futurology seems great and pointed.

Both ranting and raving will be involved.

Hmm....how about R.A.V.I.N.G: Rise Against Voracious IT Nazi Ghouls?

[-] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Actual altruists.

If you form a band you could be the Death Spirals.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

not pitching an alternative because your suggestion is better, but I'm always tickled when I get to use the phrase "Actually Existing", e.g. "Actually Existing Altruists" (see: "actually existing socialism")

[-] self@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

the Association for Software Sanity

with corresponding conference the Association for Software Sanity Home for Originating Less Entropy

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

Global Organisation Against TESCREAL (and) Surveillance Entrepreneurship

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

“Hmmmm… let’s see if a relevant domain name is available… com, no… org, no…maybe something less common… let’s try cx,…GRAHHHHHHH!!! NOOOO!!!”

[-] NextElephant9@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

Pile Of Opposed People!

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

Per contemptum ad astra.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

The Centre for Actual Creativity

I wonder how much would it cost to have a booth at Fringe to stir trouble with?

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Grounded Humanists, perhaps?

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

getting there, tho i fear the New Atheist failure mode

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, and to be clear I’m unabashedly a humanist myself, but at this point in time I have to treat “Humanist” in org names as a red flag.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago
[-] rhamph@awful.systems 2 points 16 hours ago

“Luddites” for short.

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