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AI is more aptly characterized as a form of supercharged bureaucracy that ramps up everyday cruelties, such as those in our systems of welfare.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
Thus, the end result of the phenomenal modern productivity of the countryside is a debased countryside, which becomes daily less pleasant, and which will inevitably become less productive.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
So I identify with the figures that Kornbluh tends to portray as victims of the “too lateness” of the capitalist order, those people who missed out or were shut out of nonprecarious positions, who “drown in the extremity of bad affects,” who console themselves with the cruel optimism of immediacy and find themselves retreating from the symbolic order. It often feels like it is too late for me to write my way back into it, but I will keep posting these newsletters anyway.
Infinite Concretude
Rob Horning
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