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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When we place our faith in hard work, we’re wishing for the creation of character; but we’re also hoping, or expecting, that the labour market will allocate incomes fairly and rationally. And there’s the rub, they do go together. Character can be created on the job only when we can see that there’s an intelligible, justifiable relation between past... See more

James Livingston • What if jobs are not the solution but the problem? – James Livingston | Aeon Essays

Labor Under Capitalism

Life as Grist For the AI Mill

Dave Infante hamiltonnolan.com

Artificial Intelligence and

The coping strategies that you adopt will determine how well you handle the stressor.

According to Lazarus and Folkman, there are two aspects to managing a stressful situation:

Problem-based coping: the practical steps that you take to manage the problem.

Emotion-based coping: how you manage your emotions when you become stressed.

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Emotions @ Work

While being underrepresented is a fixed state that requires coordinated action to remedy systemically, being underrecognized is an ongoing, active state that we can change from moment to moment. Intuitively, it has an agent. That’s what makes this word an actual call to action. It puts the onus on the folks with the power to act, and it makes the... See more

N. Chloé Nwangwu • Why We Should Stop Saying “Underrepresented”

On Empathy

We rarely hear talk about preparing them for a life-time of making meaningful decisions. We don’t talk about how to prepare them for a world in which adults don’t always have the answers. We don’t talk about preparing them for a world where sometimes disobedience is the right choice, and just because something has ‘always been done like this’... See more

Dr Naomi Fisher • They Won't Get Away With That in the Real World

Higher Ed Under Capitalism

This sort of collapsed, derelict condition can appear around any disintegrating dimension of being.

Venkatesh Rao • Digital Homelessness

Broken Links

“A pile of narrow intelligences will never add up to a general intelligence. General intelligence isn’t about the number of abilities, but about the integration between those abilities.”
― Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

How to ask for help | Psyche Guides

Debbie Sorensen psyche.co

Emotions @ Work

To be competitive in this job market and to hold on to, let alone advance within, whatever job we might manage to land, we will need to adapt, in some way and to some degree, to the workplace-feeling rules and affective expectations that are increasingly being imposed up and down the labor hierarchy. Whether that means an employee will be required... See more

Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work

Labor Under Capitalism and Emotions @ Work