Morning Comrades.
I mentioned this over on IG last week but seeing how utterly zucked my accounts are I am sure no one really saw it so here it is: Whatever you were used to, and hopefully enjoyed on that platform from me now just happens here exclusively. I thought about trying to get my accounts un-zucked but at the end of the day I don’t see the point anymore. Even at its height and especially after Zuck bought IG the account was throttled- with 30K plus followers you’d reach about 50% of them and it’s declined ever since, to the point where according to their own statistics, whatever I decide to post on there gets seen by about 60 people. The point being, it’s over and as much as that is something to think about after 14 years on there, we’ve got this place and that’s that.
With that, rather than dipping into a singular topic here is what has engaged and interested me in the last week. This will become a regular email per week, how and when I am not so sure about yet as the real work reality still demands the majority of attention. None of what I write and think about happens in a vaccuum, logically and since that used to be shared on IG this now happens here. A couple of important essays to start this week and then a selection of hot shots for your attention. Comments from me if they are necessary.
News From The Void
So I have made my reservations about Naomi Klein quite public and despite her groundbreaking work in the late 90s/early 00`s she has turned utterly pro capital of late. Nevertheless, in regards to the ever increasing reality of AI in our daily life this is a very good take on it all. She (purposely) fails to mention that ownership of everything determines its use and that this can be changed at any time and thus these new technologies being helpful indeed but that’s me - do read this. It’s good.
In regards to Zuck being Zuck- but this applies for many of the applauded asshole capitalists - this is a brilliant, well-researched piece illustrating just how shit these people actually are at their job. It is important to know and I am 100% pro being utterly invested in exposing these powerful people for the hacks that they are.
The world is changing, fast, and this is an important piece of a much larger puzzle.
From one of the most relevant voices of the organized and active Socialist & Communist, any and all of these essays and their work are important. Get into this.
Without further ado, a selection of this weeks best shit posts.
