a pet theory: companies often implement new labor displacing tech like self-checkout *not* to maximize profits but rather to change workplace politics.
A regional order organized around Israeli impunity requires levels of coercion that are accelerating American decline. The Gulf states understand this, though each nation is drawing different conclusions. www.bostonreview.net/articles/obj...
whenever people get into arguments about bluesky versus twitter I just come back to the fact that I don’t want to spend time on a platform where the biggest voices are the worst people on the planet
like, to even start discussing who should command investment and how should surpluses be distributed, we need to first agree that shit matters and we need to be serious.
I am increasingly convinced that the main political division of our times is between nihilists and people who think that shit matters, and this is taking me down some weird paths, but so be it.
