Pluralistic: Brinklump Linkdump (20 Jan 2024)


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Pluralistic: Brian Merchant's "Blood In the Machine" (26 Sep 2023)


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Pluralistic: Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes (12 Apr 2023)


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Pluralistic: Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk" (20 Mar 2023)


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Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk

They turned the cottage into a factory.

A woodcut of a weaver’s loft, where a woman works at a hand-loom. Out of the window opposite her looms the glowing, menacing red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ On the wall behind her is the poster from Magpie Killjoy’s ‘Steampunk Magazine’ that reads, ‘Love the machine, hate the factory.’
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Despite what you may have heard, the Luddites weren’t technophobes. They were skilled workers, expert high tech machine operators who supplied the world with fine textiles. Thanks to a high degree of labor organization through craft guilds, the workers received a fair share of the profit from their labors. They worked hard, but they earned enough through their labors to enjoy lives of dignity and comfort.

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Pluralistic: 16 Oct 2022 RIP, Roger Wood, genius assemblage sculptor


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Pluralistic: 04 Jan 2022


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Pluralistic: 22 Jul 2020


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