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Are techbros aware of the “techbro” stereotype?
5 points by chobeat 5y ago|15 comments
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by chobeat 5y ago
They are profitable exactly because they don't pay workers the worth they produce. Profit is literally that.
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Labor and Tech Reading List(points.datasociety.net)
4 points by chobeat 5y ago|0 comments
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by chobeat 5y ago
My mother grew up in southern Europe in conditions that were bordering middle-age conditions and now life there is completely different. Prosperity is always relative to the system you're immersed in and in a globalist world, your pros
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by chobeat 5y ago
well I wrote it lol. But it helps me navigate the politics of it and try to build better communication and praxis in my own politics.
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by chobeat 5y ago
For sure there are eschatological traits, it's discussed quite commonly in the literature on the topic. We are exiting the linear, flat time of our parents and entering again in a cyclical time and we need ruptures: Collapse is one, Si
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by chobeat 5y ago
well, they are already living it, westeners have the privilege to believe it's not something that is happening but something that will happen in the future and take distance from it framing it as a collapse after peak prosperity. Third
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by chobeat 5y ago
I don't know about you, but most of the things in the article shape my real world: XR blocks my street, Exxon pollutes my air, cyberpunk shapes the aesthetic of art around me, corporate advertisements determine what is consumed by peop
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by chobeat 5y ago
It's a compass, it's a tool. You give it a purpose
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by chobeat 5y ago
if people misuse of a specific term in a casual context made the term meaningless, we wouldn't be able to speak of politics, science or any other specific field. Alt-right has a very specific meaning in politics and political analysis,
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by chobeat 5y ago
that's not claiming the collapse for themselves: it's using it in conflict with other political and social forces
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A Compass for the Politics of Collapse(write.as)
191 points by chobeat 5y ago|162 comments
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Thoughts on Bullshit Jobs(brainbaking.com)
3 points by chobeat 5y ago|0 comments
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A Symbol for Tech Workers(write.as)
1 points by chobeat 5y ago|1 comments
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by chobeat 6y ago
Enough time to prevent systemic collapse that will inevitably make intervetions to such a scale possible.
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by chobeat 6y ago
thanks but no thanks
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by chobeat 6y ago
lot of wishful thinking here. There's clearly not enough time for this
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by chobeat 6y ago
Like with every other solution, under the current political and economic systems, there's no incentive to scale it up quickly enough to make a dent in global warming and it will just live in small local prototypes and in the dreams of
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by chobeat 6y ago
it's also how CoopCycle works throughout Europe
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by chobeat 6y ago
because this would keep uber afloat a little longer and do a little more damage
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by chobeat 6y ago
you're right, but this list is an attempt to meet midway and at least engage those that have some basics, hoping to make them expand those basics. Developing interest and knowledge about new fields it's clearly something that cann
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Critical Tech Reading List(github.com)
21 points by chobeat 6y ago|2 comments
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Ants, Sharks and Flies: how most Data Products harm us even if they are bullshit(write.as)
3 points by chobeat 6y ago|0 comments
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A Critical Reading List on Tech and& (Politics –| Society –| Ethics)(github.com)
2 points by chobeat 6y ago|0 comments
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The Making of the Tech Worker Movement(logicmag.io)
2 points by chobeat 6y ago|0 comments
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Tech Worker Coalition Covid-19 Global Survey(docs.google.com)
1 points by chobeat 7y ago|0 comments
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by chobeat 7y ago
You wish
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Technology Can't Fix Algorithmic Injustice(bostonreview.net)
1 points by chobeat 7y ago|0 comments
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by chobeat 7y ago
Cringe
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A reading list for the modern critical programmer(github.com)
1 points by chobeat 7y ago|0 comments

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