A follow up to my last post about 1993 and NAFTA. Here's another key political change that foretold of further working class decline in the US, this one from 1978: https://t.co/XXcGyl2abO
As analyses roll in talking about this being an inflection point in American politics, we should pause to consider a perhaps more significant moment in our political history that started it all: 1993. https://t.co/TGO7Glj0LQ
We're living in the #enshittocene, in which the forces of enshittification are turning everything from our cars to our streaming services to our dishwashers into thoroughly enshittifified piles of shit. Call it the Great Enshittening:
https://t.co/6qxSEqTuin
1/
A major new report on the censorship-industrial complex - a citizen's starter kit from Racket. By @mtaibbi with contributions from myself, @technofog@bergerbell@SchmidtSue1@tw6384 and more
https://t.co/kRRVES4Cs7
I have been looking forward to this arrival ever since I took Dan’s graduate course on the social history of US telecommunications at the U of Illinois 20 years ago. It is such an important book!
This video (from @foldablehuman) is long, but it is PHENOMENAL, the best synthesis of the tech, political and economic critique of NFTs, DAOs, crypto and web3 I've yet seen (h/t @waxy)
https://t.co/MACHsJcULO
I always liked the actor-activist David Clennon. Here's his critical look at the aristocracy of talent in Hollywood and its anti-union "unionism." Part 1. https://t.co/z4yZgECi8f