Tara McMullin

@taramcmullin

Writer, podcaster, and producer baffled by the absurdity of neoliberal capitalism. Autistic feminist. Aspiring independent scholar. Amateur baker. Host of the What Works podcast and author of a book of the same name.

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It doesn’t have to be the way it is is a playful statement, made in the context of fiction, with no claim to “being real.” Yet it is a subversive statement.

Subversion doesn’t suit people who, feeling their adjustment to life has been successful, want things to go on just as they are, or people who need support from authority assuring them that... See more

Ursula K. Le Guin — 28. It Doesn’t Have To Be the Way It Is

Worldbuilding and Science Fiction

Generative models should not be invested with the capability to arbitrate reality, and any discussion that forwards that idea shifts more power to the companies that amass the data and build the models. The only knowledge that models produce is about the composition of their training data and the methods they use to process and organize it. Those... See more

Rob Horning • Practico-inertia

Artificial Intelligence

In the context of political discourse online, moralized content containing moral-emotion expression is consistently associated with increased sharing across various topics, among laypeople and political leaders, and during consequential political events. We call this phenomenon moral contagion .

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The Creator Economy

An Empire Divided

Graham J. Murphy lareviewofbooks.org

Kindness works better: A trauma-informed perspective for working and living in trying times.

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Emotions @ Work

One way to dramatically improve the lives of people with disabilities is by understanding time in a way that considers how people with disabilities experience barriers — something known as “crip time.”

Julia Dobrowolski • Reimagining time will help employers better support workers with disabilities

Time @ Work

In fact, most of the economic innovations of the last thirty years make more sense politically than economically. Eliminating guaranteed life employment for precarious contracts doesn’t re- ally create a more effective workforce, but it is extraordinarily effective in destroying unions and otherwise depoliticizing labor. The same can be said of... See more

David Graeber • A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber

Economics

No Redemption Arcs in Hell

Brandon blgtylr.substack.com

the art of writing

"Redemption comes from a character who has incurred a moral debt through their actions then making good on that moral debt by performing some deed or service or act of heroism that will ameliorate the bad. That seems simple enough. But in the arid secular plains of modernity and its accompanying moral relativism, what is even good? What is even bad? How can there be redemption in the absence of a functioning moral schema?"

What is public narrative?

narrativearts.org

Messaging That Moves Us

Story of self (why I care), Story of us (why we care), Story of now (why the need is urgent)