Very excited today is publication day w/ @VersoBooks Get it here: https://t.co/RuFmxrrClB

Some personal news lol:

New 'open access' article out; a commentary on the impt work on class & climate by Klaus Dörre. His focus on ownership/production & empirics on the German auto sector are both strong, but I critique his separation of 'class' and 'ecology' as 2 'axes'. https://t.co/57QpWMMVbo

No one should be killed as punishment for political expression. In addition to our basic abhorrence of violence, we are also proponents of democracy, which depends on free speech and open inquiry. Without them, collective self-governance is impossible: https://t.co/gKwxky6EmX

I've been profoundly depressed seeing so many leftists either joke about or celebrate the murder of someone for political speech. Glad to see this political clarity from @BenBurgis and @meagankday in @jacobin. https://t.co/8BJoFm3kH4

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"That is the task before organized labor: not to win some PR war, not to continue pouring money into elections...not even simply to invest in new organizing by the standard methods, but to once again test the bounds of strategic disruption to see if those muscles still work."

Do it! More than two gigawatts of round the clock emissions free power deliverable straight into NYC. Closing it was a huge mistake. Let's fix that mistake now.

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Keep thinking about this: the Democrats are basically a conservative status quo party. Its professional class base just wants Trump gone to "go back to normal." They cant fathom huge swathes of society hate them & will support any movement that promises to smash that status quo.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Great by Edward Luce. https://t.co/wa0q0mW53m

Leaving this here:

Builders first. ☝🏼 Startup Central is your shop floor: CNC, electronics, welding, real production.

Also couldn’t agree more

Finally read @Alex__1789 critique of the new arguments about techno/neo-feudalism on the left. Great stuff! https://t.co/GA5tWABaoz

If I were on the socialist left, I would simply not argue in large, prominent outlets that Trump's economic policies have positive ecological dimensions.

This review makes the common mistake of reducing abundance to simply 'deregulation' to allow the market/private sector to deliver more supply of good stuff. On why that's a wrong reading of the book check out:

I finished my comments on Chapter 1. We'll see if I have the stamina to do this through all 25 chapters (!)

Foundation models are stuck in the past, but they intentionally produce natural-sounding and varied responses. These can lead to hallucinations. We explore the limitations of foundation models and how RAG can address these so chat, search, and agentic workflows can all benefit.

33) Mention of 'family' here allows for a long endnote/essay on Marx's thoughts on the family division of labor (& the feminist literature on social reproduction & housework). There was also a book launch for the translation w/ Sophie Lewis of 'Abolish the Family' fame...

32) Credit where it's due, I quite prefer Reitter's prose here.

31) Reitter adds an interesting explicit contrast of recreation as "not labor." Makes me think tho, what about, "after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want."? What about then, Paul?

30) Why replace 'absurdity' w/ 'insanity' when you're just going to say 'absurd form' later?

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