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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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 machine process them in alien and opaque ways.

Rob Horning • Practico-inertia

Artificial Intelligence and Epistemology

American economy creates new jobs through organizing waste which is at best harmless and at worst poisonous and destructive.

James Boggs • The American Revolution: Pages From a Negro Worker's Notebook

Labor Under Capitalism

From the editor's’ foreword to “The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook” by James Boggs, 1963

According to Asana’s Anatomy of Work Index, which surveyed over 10,000 knowledge workers from around the globe, the average person only spends about a quarter of their time on skills-based work—like coding, designing, or creating marketing campaigns—and another 13% on strategic planning. The remaining 60% of their day is spent communicating about... See more

Asana • The Way We Work Isn't Working [2023] • Asana

Labor Under Capitalism

William Morris - Useful Work versus Useless Toil

marxists.org

Labor Under Capitalism

Science Fiction and

I’ve been mainlining Le Guin’s non-fiction writing. It strikes me reading this passage again that she’s bumping up against Harry Frankfurt’s definition of “bullshit.” To paraphrase, that bullshit doesn’t concern itself with the truth—it’s objective is outside the realm of information. I don’t think fiction is bullshit, obviously. But now I’m curious about the qualities of fiction as they relate to the qualities of bullshit.

On one level, disengagement can be understood as an effort to slip apparatuses of control wherever we encounter them. Think of this as a strike for worker empowerment. The bigger question, though, is whether we can ever really escape the toil and trouble for good. It often seems as if we are doomed to sustain the systems and structures that suspend... See more

David J Siegel • Modern Life Subjects Us to All-Consuming Demands. That’s Why We Should Reflect on What It Means to Step Away From It All

Labor Under Capitalism

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 lifetime of worrying that people might not like me, I would learn to love and trust myself enough that it would finally stop mattering so much what strangers thought and I could FREAKING RELAX.

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I didn’t... See more

Substack • Notes | Substack

Personal Growth

How do we create a world where we are free to create for the love of it?

Kate Tyson (Strathmann) • The Space to Create

content as capital

EMBEDDED: How do you keep up with the online discourse? How important is it to you to do this?

SAM COLE: Honestly the best way I know how to do this is talking to my friends. Everyone is experiencing a different internet these days. Algorithms have got us sorted and siloed away from each other, so one person is seeing memes and “discourse” and... See more

Rob Horning • Practico-inertia

James Boggs • The American Revolution: Pages From a Negro Worker's Notebook

Asana • The Way We Work Isn't Working [2023] • Asana

William Morris - Useful Work versus Useless Toil

David J Siegel • Modern Life Subjects Us to All-Consuming Demands. That’s Why We Should Reflect on What It Means to Step Away From It All

Substack • Notes | Substack

Kate Tyson (Strathmann) • The Space to Create

Nick Catucci • My Internet: Sam Cole