“The truth is quite simple: we don’t know what to do because there’s not just one thing to do.”
https://prisonculture.substack.com/p/the-struggle-is-permanent-keep-fighting
The Struggle is Permanent: Keep Fighting
Or some notes on carrying on...
One of these days I'm going to have the time and spoons to write about the work we're doing on Unbreaking—and today is not that day!—but if you want to understand the state of the federal government after months of direct attacks, this is the place:
https://unbreaking.org/
Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
After some completely predictable stretches of hard slogging, we're getting ourselves sturdied up in the Unbreaking collective (Unbreaking.org), and one of the things on my list for the next month-ish is sorting out where to start offering paths into that project on the fediverse. (1/x)
“Technological change is not an external force to which societies must simply adapt; it is a socially and politically mediated process.”
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/is-the-ai-bubble-about-to-burst
Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?
In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence, spearheaded by companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta. Once again, a c
You should read every “here’s how AI will change your job” in the context of who has the power to change the conditions of work, and how that power is exercised. And remember that major changes to working conditions come about in one of two ways: as negotiation, and as coercion.
Lastly, today as on all days, give all your fucks to the living:
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/unified-theory-of------
A unified theory of fucks
Where to give all your precious fucks.
It’s why, when I write pieces like this one, I’m determined to make the language as much a part of the work as the ideas. These motherfuckers are trying to kill words; I’m not going down without a fight.
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen
Toolmen
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool.
One of the many distressing things about all the AI nonsense is that it commodifies language, it demeans the beautiful gift of the written word, language made solid, sharp, dangerous.
And language here is key: I’m not just writing to communicate information. Language is an art, and I’m grateful to have been able to practice it with such thoughtful and attentive readers over these many years.
That’s been so much of this work, and part of what I think is so lovely about blogging as a mode of writing: it’s a way of sowing, tending, reaping ideas and language over time.
Erin Kissane