Metal Machine Music by Ben Tarnoff
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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 tha…
Ben Tarnoff
Jan 14
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 happe…
Ben Tarnoff
Dec 4, 2019
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
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
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 socia…
Ben Tarnoff
Nov 7, 2019
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 Hallo…
Ben Tarnoff
Oct 31, 2019
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
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 sa…
Ben Tarnoff
Oct 25, 2019
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