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Chekov’s Phaser :cheffy_kiss: When a tech company designs a device for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades, they invite both external and internal parties to demand those downgrades. Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III. Selling a product that can be remote, irreversibly, nonconsensually downgraded inevitably results in…
Two days after the closing was announced, their lives upended, the workers shared that they were exploring the possibility of reopening Common Ground as a worker cooperative—a business owned and democratically operated by its workers. They found support from the loyal customer base built by the business in over 25 years as a fixture in the Hampden…
An instructive video on what collapse (vs crisis) looks like https://www.theissue.io/video-post-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-gurc2tpglzg/
Naomi Oreskes is a historian of science at Harvard University. Erik M. Conway works as a historian at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Together they have just published “The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.” We’ve talked a lot on this program about the failures of neoclassical…
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