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?

  • rhamph@awful.systemsEnglish
    10·
    13 days 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).

  • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
    9·
    13 days ago

    the Association for Software Sanity

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

      • athairmor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        13 days 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!!!”

    • swlabr@awful.systemsBannedEnglish
      9·
      13 days 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”)

  • maol@awful.systemsEnglish
    7·
    13 days 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.systemsEnglish
    7·
    13 days 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

    • ???

  • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
    4·
    12 days 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.systemsEnglish
    4·
    12 days ago

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

  • Mitchell_Porter@awful.systemsEnglish
    4·
    13 days 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.