Michael Cox @michael_and

Joined April 2008

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James Vincent @jjvincent

3 weeks ago

can't wait for chatbots to be as diposable as LCD and the world becomes a constant hubub of inane personalities. getting motivational speeches from your toothbrush, arguing with your cigarettes about their health risks, getting cat-called by energy drinks in the supermarket

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gil duran @gilduran76

3 weeks ago

This was written in 2000: “The most virulent form of philosophical techno-libertarianism is a kind of scary, psychologically brittle, pre-political autism. It bespeaks a lack of human connection & a discomfort with the core of what many of us consider it means to be human.”

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Michael Cox @michael_and

4 weeks ago

“a deliberate alteration in prevailing power dynamics, to set in motion a radical, albeit achievable, transition towards economic democracy” x.com/ProfDavidField…

David Fields @ProfDavidFields

4 weeks ago

“a deliberate alteration in prevailing power dynamics, to set in motion a radical, albeit achievable, transition towards economic democracy” x.com/ProfDavidField…

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Luke Savage @LukewSavage

2 months ago

I recently re-read Homage to Catalonia, and I'd forgotten how vividly George Orwell describes his brief experience of a classless society. Orwell found the "air of equality" so powerful it overshadowed his otherwise punishing experience at the front. lukewsavage.com/p/the-air-of-e…

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Michael Cox @michael_and

2 months ago

"how to counter the encroachment of new, electronic devices and systems upon commons that are more subtle and more intimate to our being than either grassland or roads - commons that are at least as valuable as silence" davidtinapple.com/illich/1983_si…

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Chris Dillow @CJFDillow

a year ago

Many backward societies sacrifice people to placate false gods. ft.com/content/b31060…

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James Meadway @meadwaj

a year ago

("Weirdness" eg: presumably some actual scientific specialists and engineers would have forseen it, but I would not have put "swarms of jellyfish closing down nuclear power plants" on my climate change impacts list. thebulletin.org/2021/10/jellyf…)

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Robin Houston @robinhouston

a year ago

This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I don't know why OP deleted it, but I think it needs to be preserved for posterity.

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Tim Christiaens @TimChristiaens5

a year ago

Neo-luddism in action.

MonkeyWrenchGang @M_WrenchGang

a year ago

Neo-luddism in action.

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vx-underground @vxunderground

a year ago

Amazon has announced they're phasing out their checkout-less grocery stores. The "Just Walk Out" technology, which was labeled as automatic, was actually 1,000+ Indian employees monitoring you as you walked through the store. gizmodo.com/amazon-reporte…

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Paris Marx @parismarx

2 years ago

“The contemporary urban end goal is a utopian world without conflict, but one that never confronts the fact that the social order that enables this utopia of commodified pleasure centers is itself produced by a lot of conflict.” — @mcmansionhell thenation.com/article/cultur…

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Sunflowers&Potatoes 🌻🏳️‍⚧️🥔 @sunflowertaters

2 years ago

Ursula K Le Guin coming in clutch like always

Dan Siroker @dsiroker

2 years ago

Ursula K Le Guin coming in clutch like always https://t.co/whRvqQMM69

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𝕯𝖎𝖑𝖉𝖔 𝕭𝖆𝖌𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖘 @EmmaTolkin

2 years ago

THIS IS UNFATHOMABLY SICK. Wait til Chao Tian comes in, it goes so hard. New favorite genre: Appalachinese!!! 🪕🇨🇳

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Michael Cox @michael_and

2 years ago

Well worth a listen on housing and the structural and class forces driving the crisis. Neoliberal-brained supply/demand-only arguments clearly don't stand up to scrutiny, yet most political solutions to the crisis are about building, not tenant security

MACRODOSE @macrodosepod

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Matthew Cole 🍉 @MattColeWorks

2 years ago

Digital Taylorism in action. This is why AI should be opposed by workers - they don’t get to decide on how it’s used!

HOW THINGS WORK @HowThingsWork_

2 years ago

Digital Taylorism in action. This is why AI should be opposed by workers - they don’t get to decide on how it’s used!

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Alan Smith @theboysmithy

2 years ago

Sometimes you make a chart that surprises yourself. From @pmdfoster's look at the UK's infrastructure gap on.ft.com/3U9UTQF (link is free to open)

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Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant

2 years ago

Alice Crary's account of Wittgenstein's philosophical practice as chiefly ethical is nice — working through philosophical confusions about language is not an intellectual enterprise, but an ethical one "bringing us face-to-face with our responsibility for what we say and think."

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Maggie Appleton @Mappletons

2 years ago

Been exploring how to create more “ambient co-presence” on the web. That sense you get in cafes, trains, and public spaces of being around people without taking up your full attention. The calm, background presence of others working/playing beside you. maggieappleton.com/ambient-copres…