Hello and welcome.

You may already know all this, but it may be helpful to have this in your inbox if you ever need to find info:

We're reading Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine by Thomas Dekeyser.

if you haven't ordered the book, you should order the book (or the ebook) ASAP. bookshop.org has the book as well, if you want to order there.

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There are a few ways to keep up to date with the group:

• newsletter: I send updates on Mondays and Thursdays. In the Monday updates, I'll point to what to read; in the Thursday updates, I'll send some reflections and an icebreaker question to think about, and a reminder of where & how to join the video chat.
• video chats: Thursdays at 8pm ET we have a video chat on jitsi where we talk about the week's readings.
• group chat: if you want to chat with people, we have a few pretty active group chats: You can join our signal group chat (but keep in mind that Signal doesn't have some features for big group chats that make projects like Discord and Slack popular). I'm also trying Fluxer, a service similar to Discord and Slack, but without ID verification requirements and all that stuff. There are a number of channels there, and in my opinion it's much better-structured for conversations to branch off manageably. If a Signal chat with 300+ people sounds overwhelming, I think you might find Fluxer more appealing.

That's about it for now. Hope to see you in the Thursday video chats, or in the signal group chat soon.