This is possibly one of the worst articles I have read:
https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/the-dogma-of-harm-reduction
Unsurprisingly, the stupid creep is working on the Twitter Files. That guy's entire substack is filled with poisonous drivel.

I regretfully canceled my Current Affairs subscription. It was a wrench because I really do like Robinson. I think he does a great job of being as left as one can be without helping the right. But two pieces- a needlessly abrasive one on "trauma feminism" & another on "carceral feminism" made me switch to Jill Filipovic/Karakatsanis for this year. I agree with Robinson on most things and besides I like the guy, so I will support CA again (after the bad taste those articles left dissipates).

As a rule I dislike Wired, but it would be nice if this were true:
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-surveillance-capitalism/
Shoshana Zuboff (whose book is my bible) is the only person in these wretched 11 years, who has given me any real hope. I hope Karakatsanis is a real person because he is the one other person I respect. But having only read his substack I gloomily suspect even he could be a chatgpt deepfake & that even real people's work is probably modified as a moronic social experiment by people who should get a life.

https://www.noemamag.com/the-exploited-labor-behind-artificial-intelligence/
I am gullible. This article affirms again why one should go with one's gut. The whole article slobbers over the low paid gig workers in ai. Not one word about the people exploited by all workers in ai and data science. Not one word about the surveillance capitalism that from the low paid to the highly paid, all people in these unnecessary nuisance fields inflict on the rest of us. I really regret having donated to DAIR. This is faux left wing populism at its worst.