Amanda McLoughlin (they/she)

@amandamc.bsky.social

Plant daddy, business owner, New Yorker, queer socialist antizionist Jew. Podcasting @Multitudeshows.com

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

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“For three decades the goal of tech development has not been to improve our lives or serve the public good, but to maximize shareholder value & increase the power of the companies that control it..the root of so many of the social harms that the tech oligopoly have saddled us with”@parismarx.com

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 7mo ago

For decades, Canadians eagerly rushed onto US tech platforms and services. But now the drawbacks of that dependence are on full display. For @policyalternatives.ca, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet — and why digital sovereignty is imperative.

Also, please understand that AI surveillance is not "biased." Its purpose is racial capitalism. AI surveillance is a "racial project." AI is a race-making technology. It encodes racial logics to arrange social hierarchies. Race has always been both a social AND sociotechnical construction.

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

So there is a review this week in @thenation.com of a book that is 1/3 about my mother and grandmother and their organizing work, and this is now the nth review that states the misinformation that the Wages for Housework Campaign ended in the 1980s. This is completely false. 🧵

The Enduring Lessons of Wages for Housework

Emily Callaci’s history of the international feminist movement examines the influence of their intellectual and political victories.

thenation.com

Shout out to Judge Patricia Millett and the DC court of appeals for also identifying this as a troubling juxtaposition. The Right hate being called Nazis but the US has treated (actual/proven/documented) Holocaust-committing Nazis more humanely than LatAm migrants.

Fantastic interview with @fzierer.bsky.social for @beehiiv.com! Never before has an interviewer quoted one of my vlogs back at me 🫶🏻

Francis Zierer@fzierer.bsky.social · last yr.

“[What qualifies someone] to run a digital media company or be a digital media creator is making digital media.” — @amandamc.bsky.social on The Creator Spotlight Podcast today. What Amanda, Eric, and co. are doing at Multitude is a blueprint for sustainable creator-first media businesses. Listen!