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Mind-numbing techniques (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, debilitating work routines) are used to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Émile P. Torres
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
The new era of machine learning means that a similar overarching logic to that which revolutionized global supply chains, through the abstraction and datafication made possible by containerization, can now be applied directly to everyday life.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
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