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Jia Tolentino • Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?
The students who called for open admissions at CUNY understood that rejecting meritocracy did not mean rejecting rigor or discipline, but rather acknowledging that traditional conceptions of merit veil class and race inequities.
Astra Taylor • Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions
The socioeconomic impact of accelerating robotics and automation, leading to job displacement and wealth transfer.
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We is the operative word. This year, DHL ordered 1,000 robot truckloaders from Boston Dynamics. Through its $1 billion Industrial Innovation Fund, Amazon invested in RightBot, a startup that designs robot truckloaders.
As soon as a robot truckloader comes online, it'll connect with two other robot systems, Cardinal and Proteus, that sort packages
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‘the Technostructure grew beyond our control, overwhelming any notion of market discipline or public virtue.
Yanis Varoufakis • Another Now
Freddie deBoer • The Bitter End of "Content"
To claim that “both sides”—the more powerful who seek individual liberty and the weaker who seek social justice—have equal moral claims is to avert one’s eyes from this reality. Lobbyists for large corporations, publicists for the wealthy, lawmakers for the privileged, pundits for the powerful, celebrity peddlers of racism and xenophobia—none of
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