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November 2021

The metaverse is a cubicle
Office Space by way of The Matrix.
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Platforms don't exist
This week’s newsletter is a little unusual. It only has one section, which is devoted to sketching out some possible contours of a left tech policy. In…
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Cloud fortress
This week’s Metal Machine Music is about: what happens when you platformize the police a roundup of readings on subjects ranging from the smart city to…
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The dead are at our backs
Welcome to this week’s edition of Metal Machine Music. Here’s what I’ve got for you: Why the tech left needs a usable past How a bunch of British…
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October 2019

A Halloween fright fest
This week I’m mostly thinking about AI ethics and algorithmic warfare. Both phrases kind of stress me out, so I guess you could consider this the…
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Machine learnings
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Metal Machine Music. This one is mostly focused on automation, but it also includes a roundup of some recent pieces…
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Hello world
Welcome to Metal Machine Music, a newsletter offering left-wing perspectives on tech. I took the title from Lou Reed’s 1975 drone-metal album of the…
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