mandy brown

@aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social
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Thinking about reading, work, and technology. Reformed tech leader; now helping people do their best work.

Posting primary from https://aworkinglibrary.com/thinking/; I log in about once a week.

Readinghttps://aworkinglibrary.com
Practicinghttps://everythingchanges.us
Pronounsshe/they
LocationLenapehoking / Philadelphia
mandy brown4d ago
“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...

Prisons, Prose & Protest
Show threadmandy brown5d ago
@Unsightly3055 The newsletter has a feed—https://newsletter.unbreaking.org/archive/—and there will be a blog with feed on the website soon!
Unbreaking

mandy brown5d ago
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.

mandy brown5d ago
Erin Kissane6d ago
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)
mandy brownJun 18
“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

Verso
mandy brownJun 17
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.
Show threadmandy brownJun 14
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.

A Working Library
Show threadmandy brownJun 14
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.

A Working Library
Show threadmandy brownJun 14
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.
Show threadmandy brownJun 14
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.