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The metaverse is a cubicle
Office Space by way of The Matrix.
Ben Tarnoff
Nov 30, 2021
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The old gods are dead
2020’s first installment of Metal Machine Music will be a little thin, I’m afraid. Life has been getting in the way of newslettering lately—a trend…
Ben Tarnoff
Jan 14, 2020
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Discipline at a distance
Welcome to your next installment of Metal Machine Music. I’ve fallen a little behind on my weekly cadence—which, fair warning, will probably keep…
Ben Tarnoff
Dec 4, 2019
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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…
Ben Tarnoff
Nov 22, 2019
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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…
Ben Tarnoff
Nov 15, 2019
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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…
Ben Tarnoff
Nov 7, 2019
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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…
Ben Tarnoff
Oct 31, 2019
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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…
Ben Tarnoff
Oct 25, 2019
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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…
Ben Tarnoff
Oct 25, 2019
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