Notebook
Writer. Essays and notes on how the world works and how we live in it.
Humanity, According to America
AI draws on centuries of global knowledge, yet American firms and politicians treat its wealth as a national asset, leaving most of humanity outside the settlement they invoke for themselves.
The Worker in the Calculation
The worker is always partly in the way of the calculation. Firms need labour, but they also need to discipline, cheapen, replace, monitor, or automate it wherever possible when profitable.