# 2023-08-06

-   Listened: [[Microdose: Californian Capitalism]]
    -   More interesting stuff in there.  Some of the later history around Palo Alto, the internet, militarism, Leftist protests, possible liberatory potential (or not) of the internet.

-   Writing: [[Reclaiming the stacks: August 2023 roundup]]

-   Read: [['A certain danger lurks there': how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI]]
    -   "Perhaps his most fundamental heresy was the belief that the computer revolution, which Weizenbaum not only lived through but centrally participated in, was actually a counter-revolution. It strengthened repressive power structures instead of upending them."