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.

whatworks.fyi

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Our Cohorts

barnraisersproject.org

we define moral-emotion expression in social-media text as representational expressions of affect that reliably signal, either to others or to the self, that something is relevant to the interests or good of society, as defined by the conceptual knowledge of the expresser.

Just a moment...

The Creator Economy and Media & Culture

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

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?"

That's why we have intermediaries, and why disintermediation always leads to some degree of re-intermediation. There's a lot of explicit and implicit knowledge and specialized skill required to connect buyers and sellers, creators and audiences, and other sides of two-sided markets. Some producers can do some of this stuff for themselves, and a... See more

Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic: Middlemen Without Enshittification; The Bezzle Excerpt

content as capital and Media & Culture

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

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/alan-moore theguardian.com

Media & Culture and Fandom & Capitalism

Just a moment...

Bonnie Burstow journals.sagepub.com

Emotions @ Work

"Toward a Radical Understanding of Trauma and Trauma Work" by Bonnie Burstow:: https://www.academia.edu/download/35938648/burstow2003_radicaltraumawork.pdf

Invisible Landscapes

Orion Magazine orionmagazine.org

Empathy depends on a cool head as much as a warm heart | Aeon Essays

Maria Konnikova aeon.co

On Empathy