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Whither Modern Life?

Recent additions to Democracy Wall on Valencia Street.

I’m immersed in reading all the time, and much of what has attracted my interest in the past year or two are books that try to explain how the structure of capitalism is mutating during this violent, chaotic and barbaric time. No doubt we left […]

What the Hell

June 14, 2025, h/t Polly Marshall for sending me this photo while I was home with COVID.

I’ve been extremely reluctant to write anything for months. We are drowning in bullshit. The maelstrom of AI-generated slop on all social media platforms is bad enough. But there’s also so many new independent journalists (no […]

AI, Risk, and Work

Democracy Wall, January 2025.

I’ve spent a lot of years writing about work, technology, revolution, organizing, politics, etc. From the early days of Processed World (1981-1994) to my book Nowtopia (2008) and in dozens of essays on this blog and on Foundsf.org, I’ve addressed how the shape and control of work is the […]