I’ve spent the last year reading, thinking, and talking with workers about AI and I’ve concluded that AI is not a technology—it’s an *ideology*, and it must be engaged with as such.

A Working Library

Toolmen

Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool.

Semi-regular reminder that my posts don’t originate in the likely place you’re reading them, but start on my site and ship themselves off elsewhere; here’s the story of how and why I’m doing that:

A Working Library

Coming home

Into the gap.

This is very good on several fronts, and also I want to underscore the bit about automation here: a big thread running through what’s happening in both tech and government right now is a concerted effort to deskill workers.

Why Meta's bleak 'AI vision' is winning out

And why OpenAI's position looks more precarious by the day

“I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.”

Maven Productions

Letter to a Young Activist — Maven Productions

“Do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned a...