Hell yeah this is a huge win: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted to ban noncompete agreements—a major legal tool bosses exploit to control workers across the labor market, from fast food to tech companies.
thehill.com/business/46154…

🚨336. A History of Fossil Empire in Palestine, Part 1🚨

We dig way into a giant, new essay by Andreas Malm which lays out a longue durée analysis of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, connecting it in a history of fossil empire and colonial annihilation. soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

To be clear, Google wants workers to build tech that helps enforce apartheid and commit genocide, then shut up about it.

🚨Preview – 335. Seto Kaiba is My Role Model🚨

First the dream deferred of Neom, then the bizarre Yu-Gi-Oh! lore behind one of our biggest techno-fascist, finally the strange, destructive hyper-reality of SHEIN patreon.com/thismachinekil… soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

A little piece from me on how paranoid whiteness haunts reactionary attitudes towards generative AI images.

Shout out to Fabian Offert and Jathan Sadowski for helping to clarify these ideas

And big thanks to Australian Academy of the Humanities for the invitation!

ADM+S Centre emergingtechlab

The only thing I think of, ever, when I see McKinsey getting involved in the public sector

I went on one of my favorite podcasts, odd lots, to talk about the recent rise of adderall and what this means for emerging forms of labor

My NEW BOOK now has a page on the UC Press website! It's a (nearly) real object! I'm so hyped for this to be out. It's the best thing I've ever written. All killer, no filler. And the cover design is unbelievable. I can't wait for people to crack it open. ucpress.edu/book/978052039…

You know how you could forget your headphones in your pocket and wash em? Imagine forgetting to put your $100k meme wagon into 'Car Wash Mode' and now it's a garage sized brick

Truly a wild way to describe cops firing pepper balls at people.

Me reading: Ahh so nice to read a short journal article – 5000 words is really all you need to make a point.

Me writing: I cannot possibly say anything of substance and importance without 10,000 words plus references. I will not be censored by the inattention of readers!

Our new paper is out in Economy & Society! We analyse the growing model of 'behavioral insurance'—based on capturing data about our lives and changing our daily habits—through a major case study of the Vitality ecosystem. Kelly Lewis Dr Zofia Bednarz tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Gotta check out this paper plus the whole special issue of First Monday which is all bangers by so many of the best radical thinkers about power and AI.

When there’s a ghost in the corner nobody else can see

Our new paper is out in Economy & Society! We analyse the growing model of 'behavioral insurance'—based on capturing data about our lives and changing our daily habits—through a major case study of the Vitality ecosystem. Kelly Lewis Dr Zofia Bednarz tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The purpose of a system is what it does. The genocidal operations are undeniable. The genocidal horrors are unspeakable.

Developing a theory that Reese Witherspoon is a deflationary counterweight for tech bubbles. If the theory holds, the latest data indicates that the AI hype should be bursting soon.

“As one Walmart worker in the report puts it, ‘the robots are treated better than human beings.’”