#arbeitsbedingungen

[fundgruber]

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

https://bsky.app/profile/tante.cc/post/3mgvcoe72e22c

[rwpohl]

to die for, gus van sant 1995

[linketheorie]

Frauen werden auf der gesamten Welt unterdrückt und als Menschen zweiter Klasse behandelt. Heute schauen wir uns an was das alles mit dem Kapitalismus zu tun hat und warum eine Betrachtung der Situation von Frauen immer mit einer Klassenanalyse einhergehen sollte.

Weiterlesen:John Smith: Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century.John Bellamy Foster: Late Imperialism.Samir Amin: Contemporary Imperialism.

[fundgruber]

Tea Hacic-Vlahovic, Doom Suckers. Spike Art Magazine, 2023

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Tabitha Arnold, Time Off Task, 2022

[fundgruber]

Infrastructure isn’t just a technical, or even social project: it’s also ethical. We started by outlining the harms of our infrastructural deficits for science, many of which are widely seen as normal, or otherwise inevitable. Some harms are only possible to recognize when it’s possible to imagine an alternative to the system that causes them. This project was an attempt to help us imagine what science can be like as a guide and inspiration for us to organize to make it real. I didn’t get everything right, and I probably raised more problems than I addressed. My goal more than to be right was to give a fistful of threads to pull for those that are eager to, and to make it impossible to say that a better future for science is impossible. If all we can imagine science to be is a system where we scrape by, forcing a chain of papers through a rapacious machine that turns curiosity into a treadmill of funding and prestige, playing out the clock as our working conditions deteriorate to the point where publicly funded science is nothing more than a training program for pharmaceutical and advertising companies — what are we even doing here?

Jonny Saunders: Decentralized Infrastructure for (Neuro)science Or, Kill the Cloud in Your Mind. 2022

[fundgruber]

The gap between the genius and the average man diminishes in proportion to the growth in the sum of human knowledge. Science, like economic production, tends to be socialised. From the genius humanity has gone to the isolated scholar, and from the isolated scholar to the team of scholars. The division of labour tends to increase. To produce anything today it is necessary to rely on the co-operation of large numbers of workers. This tendency towards further division exists at the level of ‘spiritual’ production as well, and it’s precisely through this that it advances. The scholar’s study gives way to the laboratory where teams of scholars co-operate in their researches, just as the artisan’ workshop gives way to the big factories. The role of the individual tends to diminish in human society - not as a feeling, aware individual but as an individual emerging out of a confused mass, riding above the chaos of humanity. Man as individual gives way to social man. The opposition between the individual and society will be resolved by the synthesis of a society in which all individuals will find their true personality. The myth of the genius isn’t the future of humanity. It will join the myth of the hero and the demi-­god in the museum of prehistory.

Against the concept of the "brilliant leader"

International Review no.33, 2nd Quarter, 1982.

(From Internationalisme-August 1947)

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“These TikTok users leave a sign on their door or leave a note in their instructions for the driver on the Amazon app asking that their drivers dance for the camera. Then, they put it online for the enjoyment of strangers. The implications here are horrifying on a number of levels. Because of Amazon’s “customer obsession,” some drivers feel pressured to do whatever a customer says to avoid receiving a bad review or complaint.“

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3nqn4/dystopic-tiktok-trend-demands-amazon-workers-dance-for-surveillacameras