“Because no citizen who simply settles for being a consumer of democracy should expect to have a real democracy ever again.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/opinion/charlie-kirk-media-truth-trump.html
If you’re noticing a parallel between the way people in the administration are demeaning most Americans and the way your boss is now treating you, you are in very good company. (Tyranny in government begets tyranny at work begets tyranny in the home.)
“The disenfranchised men of the manosphere disdain women, and yet women continue to be asked to feel pity and concern for them.” https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n16/emily-witt/do-you-feel-like-a-failure
One of the ways that supremacist ideologies function is by refusing rest: https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/hurry-up-quick
A corollary to no ethical consumption under capitalism is no ethical employment: there is no where you can work and keep your hands clean. The choices are about where to draw the line, and how to mitigate the harm on your side of it.
“Common decency, then, stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association.…We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply.” https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-can-we-live-together
“For me, there are two main rewards for working. One is the continual discovery within myself of new ideas; the other is deeper understanding of a problem.” https://everythingchanges.us/blog/work-problem/
“If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?” https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/charlie-kirk-ezra-klein-tanehisi-coates
Nearly two years since I made a regular practice of turning my digital devices off one day a week and I cannot overstate how restful it is. I won’t make a virtue of it—I don’t believe in virtue!—but those days are so intensely alive, and that’s enough.
We are well past the point at which talking uncritically about AI should be seen as deeply embarrassing. https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/against-stocking-frames/
“The class struggle has been transformed into an internal struggle against oneself.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/self-exploiting-workers
On refusing to do what you’re told. https://everythingchanges.us/blog/not-doing/
Judith Butler: “Did you consider not complying with this request?” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/12/uc-berkeley-trump-administration-antisemitism
“Living a life well lived must surely include coming to an acceptance of your own finitude.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/to-live
Deskilling in action. https://www.404media.co/the-software-engineers-paid-to-fix-vibe-coded-messes
What if our work is all the things we give a fuck about? https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/everything
“We must dare to prepare ourselves for the Exodus from ‘work-based society’: it no longer exists and will not return.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/exit-strategy
“All their memories interlock and look down the same path to the same places. Each memory reflects another, repeats, reinforces, until the known becomes the only.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/other-side
“A photograph cannot inspire an antiwar movement if the antiwar movement has been spirited away in the night to a facility in Louisiana.” https://www.theverge.com/features/761076/gaza-images-starvation-tiktok-ban
Love a wildcat strike. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/17/government-orders-striking-air-canada-flight-attendants-return-work