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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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself. One could put this another way: the publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

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. It is a tool of power that masquerades as a tool of knowledge.

Rob Horning • Practico-inertia

Epistemology and Artificial Intelligence

How Hollywood used the digital transition against workers

Paris Marx disconnect.blog

Labor Under Capitalism

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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Artificial Intelligence

Perlego eReader

Media & Culture and Knowledge Work

Too Much to Know by Ann Blair

Research as a way of life is having the ability and the time to question the world around you and add to its understanding. It’s defined by our access and ability to contribute to production of knowledge and evaluate the information around us.

Research As A Way of Life

Media & Culture and Knowledge Work

Infographic: 6 Guiding Principles To A Trauma-Informed Approach | CDC

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Emotions @ Work

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

This is what an unmoderated internet looks like

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