I don't know anything about this initiative, but the few points of the manifesto that I didn't immediately love at the very least make me wonder: https://criticalengineering.org

Why a manifesto? Why not an essay, or something arguing for the merit of these things. Also a bunch of the phrasings seem really strange to me, to the point of me not understanding what they mean (incite suspicion?). I wonder if the german makes more sense. The slime mould workshop looks pretty cool though.