Richard Maxwell

Working to make working conditions better for everyone, and freeing up a little more freedom where he can

[Lauren McKenzie @TheMcKenziest]

This is one the best things I’ve ever seen

[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

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

[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

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

[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

From the Political Economy rapid response team--Information Observatory. Our Kind of Villain* https://t.co/p3vCLCDFBa via @shinjoung

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

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

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[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

@AlisaValdesRod1 https://t.co/s8Xz3JohNT

[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

I'm thinking about the inspiring and heartbreaking history of Allende's Chile and the visionary cybersyn project. https://t.co/2UXEPXpiTF

[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

@AntonioCasilli @caimlTUwien well done!

[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

https://t.co/kh5zqsAoUG

[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

Ok Communication and media colleagues, we have homework...

[NetworkAffects @NAffects]

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

[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

At last! Can't wait to get a copy.

[Victor Pickard @VWPickard]

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!

[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

Marruecos histórico!!!

[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

calling all sci-fi writers...https://t.co/PvdMouD5pG

[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

@mtaibbi https://t.co/ucinywoXGG

[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

This...https://t.co/LiheyU5Sn3

[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

Tempted by crypto? Think again. https://t.co/b9EE5X1e7j

[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

nothing like a little political economic analysis on a cold saturday

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

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

[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

COP 26--progress or a salve to fossil fuel addicts? The latest from Greening the Media. https://t.co/FwNbVebCbm

[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

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

[Richard Maxwell @rmax]

Why do corporations act irrationally to block climate action? The answer might be found in the psychology of corporate greed. https://t.co/2xoaylwNlw