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The hacker class experiences extremes of a winner-take-all outcome of its efforts. On the one hand, fantastic careers and the spoils of some simulatio

Variety of work is the next point, and a most important one. To compel a man to do day after day the same task, without any hope of escape or ch

Now we have seen that the semi-theological dogma that all labour, under any circumstances, is a blessing to the labourer, is hypocritical and fa

Most AI backlash is economic anxiety coated in a veneer of social justice. Alfalfa farming consumes 19 times the water that data centers do; there’s n

“Diffusion lag” reflects a lack of product-market fit. Even AI optimists are still hitting practical roadblocks. That’s why detailed case studies are

Here are some things I’ve asked chatgpt recently: “why is Toblerone so popular at airport duty-free stores?” “give me a recipe for a chickpea tagine

Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress - by kyla scanlon

What we’re seeing isn’t just a media trend. It’s a shift in the architecture of power. Attention → Speculation → Allocation. This is the new supply ch

Many people were outraged by what they regarded as his non-parliamentary use of medieval laws to raise money. The most notorious was ship money. This

Similarly, I wonder whether the creator economy, as it matures, will resemble less of its original promise (a way for people to do the things they lov

Perhaps this pattern of radicalisation followed by recuperation has even happened with each emergent technology – newspapers, novels, film, (pirate) r

Much of the pleasure of “generating content” — whether through a machine or by some other means, about oneself or about other things or about other th

Browsing the internet used to be a hobby of mine. Ever since my dad got us a modem when I was around ten, I spent hours at a time just looking at diff

What we’re seeing isn’t just a media trend. It’s a shift in the architecture of power. Attention → Speculation → Allocation. This is the new supply ch

‘The internet is forever’ has long been the refrain of neurotics who wring their hands over privacy. But, back in the earliest days of online interact

Though histories of capitalism tend to distinguish between three stages (market, monopoly, late), its story can be retold as one of an ongoing demater

The securitized subprime mortgages that triggered the global financial crisis demonstrated that even the most material of possessions—the home—was as

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n this sense, Labubus do seem to be a defining moment of 2020s culture. For those interested in moving culture away from fads such as these, resistanc

The stasis debate is actually just about two specific topics: (1) whether 21st century culture offers the feeling of artistic progress, where new styl

In any case, it’s enough to make anyone feel crazy. Over the last decade we’ve watched — and while I’m talking about the tech industry, I think we can

One hallmark of our current moment is that when an event happens, there is little collective agreement on even basic facts. This, despite there being

Executive Function Theft (EFT) is the deliberate abdication of decision-making, tasks, and responsibilities that are perceived as administrative or re

It’s hard to talk about “masterpieces” because the concept trades on a theory of aesthetics that is controversial when spelled out (aesthetic value re

The inhabitants of /lit/ see themselves as the victim of anti-canon efforts, as the academy has sought to “decolonise” and expand the curriculum over

A reading revolution is taking place on this notorious message board, most famous for alt-right memes, anything-goes chatter, and large-scale coordina

How could gaining knowledge amount to anything other than discovering what was already there? How could the truth of a statement or a theory be anythi

That we can write the prompt or query is not an emblem of our freedom but of our surrender. We give up on what we think the words mean and let the mac

That is, they understand the purpose of chatbots and generative models to be the ability to force other people to see a particular version of reality.

Because you are human beings you are going to meet failure. You are going to meet disappointment, injustice, betrayal, and irreparable loss. You will

Status and Relatedness are stress/reward triggers and Attachment is a core human need. The exclusive "we" may reward Status for the ingroup members, b

Tech communities, like any community, are messy. If you’re fortunate to land on one that’s inclusive and welcoming then there are exciting things comi

The club model teaches us something: organizations that endure don’t try to include everyone. They’re clear about their identity, even as that identit

We believe that a healthy ecosystem competes on innovative features, not critical mass. The social web should be centered around people, not platforms

It was only because I showed up and I paid attention," he said. "I looked for places to go. I looked for communities to join. I looked for ways to bec

In a model, agents are interchangeable. Consumer A and Consumer B have different preference curves, yes, but they respond to the same incentive struct

And I realised that if you ever hear someone explaining things in terms of a long list of caveats, the odds are good that you’re looking at tacit know

Tacit knowledge is knowledge that cannot be captured through words alone.Think about riding a bicycle. Riding a bicycle is impossible to teach through

A democratic cultural politics would be developmentalist — oriented to learning, growth and discovery — rather than presentist. All kinds of resources

Some assume that a fundamental property of the internet is that it is globally connected, but countries, such as Iran and China, who have built their

Comfort, however, is not the same as healing. The frequently-invoked (pop) culture war framework conjures images of a pitched battle between ‘queer fa

‘Fandom Has Toxified the World’: Watchmen Author Alan Moore on Superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump

I believe that fandom is a wonderful and vital organ of contemporary culture, without which that culture ultimately stagnates, atrophies and dies. At

A democratic cultural politics would be developmentalist — oriented to learning, growth and discovery — rather than presentist. All kinds of resources

The man we call an adventurer...is one who remains indifferent to the content, that is, to the human meaning of his action, who thinks he can assert h

If you’ve used all of your creative powers to come up with a cure for cancer and you want to follow a playbook for the FDA approval process, by all me

In some ways, the distinction between normalcy and pathology is arbitrarily defined—as well as hard to measure.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. — Albert Camus

During it, we learn to adopt a story about ourselves—what our value is, what beauty is, what is harmful and what is normal—and to privilege the feelin

Many of us have oriented our entire lives around an effort to be “normal,” never realizing that “normal” is not a stationary goal. It keeps moving whi

How could gaining knowledge amount to anything other than discovering what was already there? How could the truth of a statement or a theory be anythi

We cannot really conceive of the problems that will arise when we start trying to build a free society. What now seem likely to be the thorniest probl

What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field, or iron foundry, or even in

1) We care, even if we have trouble showing it Expression doesn’t always come naturally to us, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. I had to make rem

The experience of affective friction is similar as well: a loss of fluency combined with negative emotional signals arising from the gap between socia

When metaphor invades decolonization, it kills the verypossibility of decolonization; it recenters whiteness, it resettles theory, it extends innocenc

so we might say that the most importantthing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.11It’s atechnology that will never become

I think of a comparably personalcomment I once heard my colleague Judith Shapiro, former provost of BrynMawr and then president of Barnard, make to a

And an American college is only true to itself when itopens its doors to all—rich, middling, and poor—who have the capacity toembrace the precious cha

“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” wrote the literary critic Fredric Jameson. One of the hardest elements to im

While serving a life sentence in jail, Kaczynski wrote a little-known sequel to his manifesto, entitled “Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How”. In it he

As a society, we are so fully invested in capitalism, competition and algorithms that it’s almost impossible to pull ourselves out of the cycle to see

my sense is that people who take a long time to respond to messages, or tend to go into shame spirals about them, often put a lot of pressure on thems

Full text from Jack Dorsey to Block employees via Insider: I want us to build a culture of excellence. Excellence in service to our customers, excell

GO DIRECT: THE MANIFESTO I. TRADITIONAL PR IS DEAD. For too long, founders have yielded control over their narratives to media and middlemen. Befor

It’s easy, I think, to understand how patriarchy feeds on apathy, and jealousy, and white women protecting their small spheres of power. It’s harder,

What if I begin to understand that clean culture — like diet culture, like purity culture, like bourgeois parenting culture — persists in part because

And in America, no matter how much you’ve got, someone next to you has more. This is what Chris Hayes once described to me as “fractal inequality.” Am

Chomsky and Robinson also acknowledge that other great powers acted in much the same way that the United States has, and these states also invented el

While being underrepresented is a fixed state that requires coordinated action to remedy systemically, being underrecognized is an ongoing, active sta

One way to dramatically improve the lives of people with disabilities is by understanding time in a way that considers how people with disabilities ex

We need a politics of time that would enable more people to have time to do work that gives them satisfaction and to participate in real leisure, in t

So much value and love for the process of writing and what it does for the coherence between heart, brain, imagination, lived reality, unseen, and see

You can’t write a viral essay that says “it’s complicated and I’m not sure.” But this is the only path to truly novel insight.

Writing is a task that takes both objective and subjective intelligence. LLMs ace the objective parts the same way they ace every test; you can’t faul

We have tried to relate to the world around us through only the left side of our brain, and we are clearly failing. If we are to re-establish a viable

When metaphor invades decolonization, it kills the verypossibility of decolonization; it recenters whiteness, it resettles theory, it extends innocenc

From indigenous cultures — who’ve tended to operate on a paradigm of cooperative collectivism that’s deeply entwined with their relationship to nature

Indigenous people did not despise wage labour primarily because of the effort that it entailed. Rather, they thought the work demanded by capitalists

Because at some level, the mandate to love your work and be happy with it has a very simple and straightforward rationale: the dictate to work more. L

Indeed, the literature on love and happiness at work is remarkable for its insistence on the identity of interests that will be generated, that both e

The ideologies of love and happiness at work also function to depoliticize the employment relation by impeding the formation of collectivities and und

The need for romantic love is thus imagined as so deeply entrenched in the structures of feminine subjectivity that women desire nothing so much as to

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an ex

But this isn’t just about seeking exit from the turmoil of a modern, connected existence, nor is it merely about recharging our batteries so that we c

Indigenous people did not despise wage labour primarily because of the effort that it entailed. Rather, they thought the work demanded by capitalists

Proponents of degrowth argue that economic growth is predicated on the continuous extraction of natural resources, and so infinite growth in a world i

Over the course of the last century, the number of workers employed as domestic servants, in industry, and in the farm sector has collapsed dramatical

Feminist Philosophy Archive Directory

“True work is done for the sake of doing it. What is to be done with it afterwards is another matter, another job.” — Dancing at the Edge of the Wo

Willfulness can create all sorts of personal suffering because, at the end of the day, we don’t have control over all sorts of things, and certainly n

Feminist Philosophy Archive Directory

So why try to predict the future at all if it’s so difficult, so nearly impossible? Because making predictions is one way to give warning when we see

I think of it as the difference between order and a different kind of order. Because there’s nothing chaotic in diversity. There’s nothing chaotic in

“True work is done for the sake of doing it. What is to be done with it afterwards is another matter, another job.” — Dancing at the Edge of the Wo

Willfulness can create all sorts of personal suffering because, at the end of the day, we don’t have control over all sorts of things, and certainly n

But the Cigna review system that blocked van Terheyden’s claim bypasses those steps. Medical directors do not see any patient records or put their med

The fact that many American companies are paying paltry wages to workers while lavishing cash on top executives and investors is no happenstance. It's

I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read - Foundation for Economic Education

Yatú: Head of Fiction is Norm. Head of Reality is me.  (USB club job titles the co-founders gave themselves)

We Must Strengthen Our Democratic Institutions

I didn’t know that all the therapy and journaling and meditation and “work on myself” I did would eventually start to pay off, and that after a lifeti

“Every journey is a question of sorts, and the best journeys are the ones in which every question opens into deeper and more searching questions.” — P

We can always opt out of this arrangement, of course, and live happily in meatspace, but that is precisely the point: Offline we exist by default; onl

We are currently living in a time when the lines between fantasy and reality are blurring and virtual worlds are creating room for new rules of self-e