“Giving up on the idea that truth matters is not just cynicism, it’s surrender.” https://www.citationneeded.news/it-matters-i-care/
“Artificial intelligence is currently busy completely de-caring human existence by optimizing life and doing away with the future as a source of care.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/de-caring
“They have turned these indifferent and extractive technologies into instruments of protest. They are weaponizing the accountability sink.” https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-weaponization-of-waymo
The thing that keeps coming up as I talk to people about AI in their workplaces is how dehumanizing it is. It’s dehumanizing to ask a machine to do something, and then have to correct it over and over; it’s dehumanizing to be told to read something that involved little to no human effort to make.
“While the upsides of adopting LLM technology to you as a worker might seem marginally useful now, that adoption directly contributes to that extraction, ultimately devaluing labor.” https://henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/
“It is very very disturbing that your response is always to lie.” https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina
One way to know that “AI is coming for your jobs” is a bluff is to see it paired with “and cancer will be cured.” The same Ferengis pushing AI are also working to cut funding for medical research! No cure for cancer is forthcoming without working scientists. https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-jobs-apocalypse-is-for-the
Again: work (both students’ and teachers’) that has been deskilled, de-spirited, and stripped of all creativity and joy. Appalled on behalf of the teachers, and so so sad for the students. https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/
There’s lots I want to write about this work, but for today I will say that working on this page (and project) has made abundantly clear the way the assault on all our freedoms runs right through our workplaces. https://unbreaking.org/issues/equality-at-work-decimating-the-federal-workforce/
On dangerous questions and even more dangerous (but liberating) answers: https://everythingchanges.us/blog/cant-and-wont/
This month marks 25 years since I last drove a car. My favorite form of transportation continues to be: legs.
The dream of a more automated workplace is over one hundred years old and it has always been about deskilling. https://anildash.com/2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office
“In times of crisis, the (sound) advice from old movement heads is to do what you’re already good at, right where you are.” https://www.wrecka.ge/the-work-at-hand/
“I want to be in dialogue with my website, my work & the people who find it. Not have it be just a space where I publish posts and art, but a living work itself. I want to engage with and collaborate with it. I want to inform it and for it to inform me.” https://fromemily.com/website-manifesto/
Somewhere in the midst of the javascript frameworks and the nonsense valuations and the shitty AI features and the RTO plans and the godawful union busting, we forgot how much joy there is in making websites. Whatever happens with work from here, we need to get it back.
“You cannot restrict unfreedom to a particular class of people. It will metastasize to consume the entire society.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/opinion/trump-court-order-constitution.html
I want to suggest, apropos of nothing at all, that if you want think about what it would be like to colonize the sea, you could do worse than read Sarah Pinsker’s Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea: https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/sooner-or-later-everything-falls-into-the-sea
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: https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/coming-home
“My last contribution to the analyst water cooler was explaining how venture capital is like welfare for white men because I like to keep my offerings short and sweet.” https://sabrina.ghost.io/2-legit-2-tariff/