"This week’s newsletter is a little unusual. It only has one section, which is devoted to sketching out some possible contours of a left tech policy. In what follows, I take the basic principles of decommodification and democratization and _...Read More_

>"The exclusion of poorer people from their own neighbourhoods is not just a social problem but a philosophical one"

"Surveillance capitalism turns a profit by making people more comfortable with discrimination"

What the digital worlds of Japan’s imageboards and America’s alt-right reveal about real-life precarity.

Data coalitions do something very different from intellectual property. Still, it is useful to see that they address the same problem: helping the creators of valuable information _...Read More_

>"If we manage to find intelligent life somewhere in the cosmos, then, strange as it may be, at least it will provide evidence that we are not alone in bearing the burden of _...Read More_

>"How algorithmic feeds conflate identity with diagnosis"

"People pay a premium for tracking technologies that get imposed unwillingly on others".

"On social media there is a context collapse between the living and the dead"

>"Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world."

>"“To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of creation as oneself. And a man who aspires after that cannot afford to keep out of any field of life. That is why my _...Read More_

"Capitalism reproduces itself through racial divisions. Can we reproduce life differently?"

>"Here's how tech companies use the promise of endless innovation to ward off government regulation."

>"Cyrus Dunham’s debut memoir, A Year Without A Name, tells the story of his gender transition. He slowly allows himself to embody a gender other than cis womanhood, and then to pursue gender-confirmation …"

"Many communities were in fact torn apart by the punitive response to the epidemic, which came at a crucial moment in political and economic history."