Joe Costello has decades experience in politics, energy, environment, and communications. Traveled and worked across the planet. Long a student of democracy, its demise, possible revitalization.
Here’s a great interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire AI. It’s a nice little primer on the politics of AI, most especially its assured destruction of, or better, what’s left of democracy, if allowed to continue along this path. Also, she points out AI's
It was no mistake that four years ago the inaugural piece of Life in the 21st Century concerned Nigeria. The piece was about Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka’s just released novel, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth. I concluded, “Soyinka's work is brilliant satire
A few weeks ago, I pointed to an excellent commentary by science communicator Dr. Angela Collier, PhD. Physics. Here are two more below. This is brilliant political analysis and hilarious satire, as good as I've seen and heard for a long, long time. She rocks! This is companion
SUBSCRIBE I pointed out several years ago when writing about what's marketed as AI the energy needs would prove impossible. So, no surprise when one of our tech-lords, none other than MS-CEO Satya Nadella states, "The biggest issue we are now having is not a compute glut,
Seems the Irish also elected a new president, Catherine Connolly. The NYT says She has said Ireland’s policy of neutrality is threatened “by the warmongering military industrial complex” in much of Europe. She predicted that a “united Ireland is inevitable.” She declared that in war-torn Gaza, Israel’s “genocide
AVAILABLE NOW Hello All, The Politics of Ape and Machine book tour begins Saturday November 1st in Albuquerque, NM. I have a preliminary schedule for November. The tour will be ongoing for the foreseeable future. Talks are open to public, stop by if you're near. Also, if you
Twist away the gates of steel Unlock the secret voice Give in to ancient noise Take a chance, a brand new dance Twist away the gates of steel Twist away, now twist and shout The earth it moves too slow But the earth is all we know We pay to
Well now I'm looking for the dum dum boys Where are you now, when I need your noise SUBSCRIBE Folks, what can be said of the value of Life in the 21st Century? Yesterday, I put out a piece explaining the energy idiocy of what's marketed
“Voting in fair and honest elections is a prerequisite for democratic self-rule. What may be even more important is a related civic duty: participation — engaging with fellow citizens and organizing in our communities. Joe Costello brings history and experience to bear on how we can help revive genuine government of,
“Costello’s anatomy of the politics of technology is wonderful, strange, and urgent. He writes without jargon, probing hard but exciting questions about the relationship between technology and democracy, and demanding that we think, each for ourselves, and collectively. We are awash in trite essays on saving democracy; his work
“Everything Joe writes is worth reading and thinking about. He’s maybe the last small “d” democratic thinker on this planet.” Yasha Levine, journalist, author of Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet and the video documentary Pistachio Wars AVAILABLE NOW We’ve assigned math an almost mystical
AVAILABLE NOW Subscribers, Readers, Sisters and Brothers, I’m going to spend as much time as I can over the coming months promoting, The Politics of Ape and Machine. I will do podcasts, write for whoever, and I'm going to do series of book talks around the country.