Yes. And the politics of it will be crucial Are we going to draw them into a broad left coalition with other, (often already deskilled) workers, or are they going to join the far right? Both are paths that a middle class under attack has taken in the past

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

one thing i think is that while the AI job apocalypse isn't going to happen, deskilling of white collar labour definitely is

on which note, really enjoyed this: disjunctionsmag.com/articles/asy...

Asymmetric Image Wars

Or, how I learnt to stop worrying and love the slop

disjunctionsmag.com

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In the AI propaganda war, Iran is winning. A joyless theocracy produces wittier videos than the Trump administration.

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to

americans urgently need to get better at imagining ourselves as perpetrators not victims

it is hard to be optimistic about—or even to imagine—a future for this planet and for the human race, for as long as the United States continues to exist

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

God help us.

Nå, det kunne have været værre. Stadig lidt nedslående at der ikke er større folkelig opbakning til klima, miljø og dyrevelfærd, men det skal selvfølgelig holdes op mod danskenes frygt for at møde en brun person på gaden. Man må huske proportionerne.

join the editors of Disjunctions in Berlin / bring your comrades

the conditions of production, confined to the mines of the Congo and to the sweatshops of Kenya and India and the Philippines, are presumably of little interest to consumer capitalism

we are looking for contributors! pitch to us, and share this call. editorial@disjunctionsmag.com

"But let it be noted here: the delusions of the Oligarchs might at first manifest as infrastructure, but we will later have to analyse them as societal ruins" — particularly relevant insight given how data center buildouts are near-universally framed as inevitable.

Disjunctions Magazine@disjunctionsmag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@melhogan.bsky.social, on AI as a social experiment.

Was Habermas “one of the greatest” philosophers, as this obituary asserts? I very much doubt it. In any case, his reputation will be tarnished by his (unmentioned) complaisance in the Gaza genocide.

this is incredibly serious

404 Media@404media.co · 5mo ago

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

there is not a strong enough 'death to america' vibe on this website if we're being quite honest

interesting how a highly relevant and contemporary global political issue is entirely missing here

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

there's an analogy to be made here with platform labour, a social arrangement that seems able to maintain its legitimacy amongst workers, through operating in a similar fashion when it comes to worldmaking. but insofar as it comes to desire, I suspect that what we might need here is more Deleuze

Evgeny Morozov@evgenymorozov.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My essay on socialism after AI has triggered quite a debate - so much so that I wrote a much longer second essay. That same issue of The Ideas Letter also contains two lengthy responses to my original piece www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-so...

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we joined you in committing war crimes and murdering brown people, why do you hate us :(

Peter Baker@peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"You asked us to go. We went": Danish soldiers died in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting America's wars. Now Trump's America is threatening to go to war against Denmark. Danes feel betrayed and bewildered. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/w...

also worth pointing out that it took two years of genocide to get AkademikerPension to drop investments into the Israeli government — meaning that we absolutely do need to channel more activist energy in this direction.

Rune Møller Stahl@runestahl.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Once again it shows that, whereever it's possible, one of the most effective form of activism is getting involved in how your pension funds are invested

Durand makes a similar point in Sidecar: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Cédric Durand, After AI — Sidecar

Legacies of the bubble.

newleftreview.org

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 7mo ago

talking about AI as a bubble doesn't make sense. AI/tech has become integrated into critical social/financial infrastructure means fall of AI = fall of these institutions. just like govnt's bailed banks during the financial crisis, they will do same with AI so long as AI remains social infrastrctr

extremely absurd to talk about choosing NATO when half of NATO is trying to invade you and another quarter is trying to pretend it isn't happening, and that it wouldn't be such a big deal if it did anyway

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, "Now we are faced with a geopolitical crisis, and if we have to choose between the USA and Denmark here and now, we will choose Denmark" "We choose NATO" "We choose the Kingdom of Denmark" "We choose the EU"

considering how much of Denmark's economy is sustained on enforcing Novo Nordisk's ability to collect intellectual property rents on pharmaceuticals by gutting generics worldwide, the "narco-terrorist" descriptor would actually be more accurate in their context than it would be with Venezuela

onion person@junlper.beer · 7mo ago

i'm surprised they haven't discovered that the president of denmark is a narco terrorist yet

tbh we didn't expect developments in imperialism to coincide so neatly with the issue on imperialism

Disjunctions Magazine@disjunctionsmag.bsky.social · 7mo ago

our inaugural issue — on digital imperialism — begins with this essay by Sarah Fathallah and Nick Mitchell, on the contradictions within the political economy of the Israeli occupation.

maybe she'll finally stop kicking Arab families out of their homes (unlikely)

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen: “If the United States chooses to attack another NATO country, then everything stops.” Not wholly sure what she means by that, but I’m going to take the maximalist approach.

he doesn't need it, Denmark gave American troops effectively unlimited use of Danish military bases in June 🤡

Erik Angner@erikangner.com · 7mo ago

The new Swedish–American Defense Cooperation Agreement gives Trump effectively unlimited use of Swedish military bases, which he can use to threaten Denmark and seize Greenland www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...

you'd think, but Danish media and intelligentsia are busy drawing up absurd justifications for this. truly nowhere else in Europe that buys as much into some notion of white brotherhood as Denmark does.

Kate Watson@loreandordure.com · 7mo ago

If I were Greenland / Denmark I’d be really fucking anxious right now.

v hyped about this project i've been working on for a while

Disjunctions Magazine@disjunctionsmag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Happy to finally launch Disjunctions with an article from the editorial team! Stay tuned for our first issue, which we will start publishing in the new year.

Happy to finally launch Disjunctions with an article from the editorial team! Stay tuned for our first issue, which we will start publishing in the new year.

Disjunctions Magazine

Disjunctions is a magazine dedicated to analysis and critique of contemporary developments in science and technology.

disjunctionsmag.com

die von Merz betriebene Politik der Spaltung und der Diskurs der Integration marschieren (noch immer) Hand in Hand Manuela Bojadžijev & ich haben diese rassistische Logik vor fast 3 Jahren hier analysiert — seitdem haben sich CDU & co weiter radikalisiert: geschichtedergegenwart.ch/spaltung-von...

Spal­tung von oben. Zur anti-demokratischen und rassis­ti­schen Logik der Integration

Seit der Berliner Silvesternacht eskaliert der Diskurs um Integration. Warum wir uns endlich verabschieden müssen vom Phantasma der homogenen Gemeinschaft.

geschichtedergegenwart.ch

Cihan Çelik@cihancelik.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Herr Bundeskanzler, ich erinnere an Max Frisch, 1965(!): „Wir riefen Arbeitskräfte, und es kamen Menschen.“ Und diese Menschen wollen ihren Wert nicht nur an ihrer Arbeitskraft bemessen sehen und sich auch nach Feierabend in der Stadt bewegen, ohne als Problem markiert zu werden.

two years into the Israeli mass-extermination campaign and the Berlin Police see fit to spontaneously ban any expressions of sympathy for Gazans. nie wieder Deutschland, aber diesmal im Ernst.