Chilling tour from Ruth Fowler through dystopian world of AI “tasker” gigs
www.wired.com/story/i-work...
Imagining the twelve people in the country jumping out of their chair when they see this and feeling happy for them.
“My Slack would fill up with GO TEAM GO messages from someone who was just out of college, someone who has no idea that across the decades, people have died trying to establish labor laws that protect workers from the exact same conditions that he is now responsible for perpetuating”
Makes Severance look like labor with dignity
“Oh but some day you will”
Good
www.democracynow.org/2026/6/9/qui...
Elon Musk is “creating a situation where he becomes deeply reliant on state contracts” as the U.S. government then becomes reliant on Musk. “It’s not about demolishing the government,” Slobodian says of DOGE, it’s about making Musk's products “an indispensable part of the infrastructure.”
Jim Warren's 1987 cover art for "Masterplay," by William F. Wu
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Metabolic Commons: Against Entropic Zones and the Ecology That War Built
Feminist Political Ecology Workshop: Call for Papers
Ca' Foscari Univ. of Venice
Sept 21–22, 2026
organised with @antoniamajaca.bsky.social