Update: Last Talk of the Year (Labor Organizing and Tech)
As I write this, I see Stella looking for something in the kitchen. I usually never know what she's looking for but her looking back at me in equal confusion is always my cue to mind my business. That business would be part of this impromptu (as always) update: this Thursday (26 Oct), Dan Hon's hallway track continues with Clarissa Redwine, Ethan Marcotte and Johanna Weststar talking everything about tech and labor. You can register here. It'll be chill!
In slightly tangenial news, I have been struggling on working on an update for y'all. I've been making sure it's not "forced" or even "coerced by the proverbial gears of society to always be pushing content". I do gag a bit when I think about this. Thanks to the printing press, someone used it to write a book about this so once I free up some reading space, I'll report back.
That's really it for now. I have something I'm working on about some random guy's "techo-optimism" manifesto that many people have commented on and I've been avoiding it. Frankly, since I've learned and understood capitalism to be a system in violence, whose means of managining labor is tied to plantations for one, I've stopped really taking avid supporters and maintainers of it seriously. Sadly, many people do and as so, they decry and correctly address the violence of this. I'll have a (living) synthesis of what people have said thus far.
Soon.