List: late(ly) capitalism | Curated by Sarah G. Carpenter, Ph.D.

Jan 29, 2025
11 stories
late(ly) capitalism
Sarah G. Carpenter, Ph.D.
Who’s drafting these things, anyway???Rescinding Executive Orders that are popular with your own party is just weird.
Jan 29
Jan 29
Sarah G. Carpenter, Ph.D.
we’re tying the wrong hands — three links in a vast web of “enshittification”Sometimes a passing remark prompts you to put old information together in new ways.
Jan 24
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Jan 24
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Sarah G. Carpenter, Ph.D.
Several studies have found that the money saved on managing problems concomitant with homelessness…I think this Vox piece, from way back in 2014, does a good job of summing up the overall state of what we know about the economics of…
Jan 4
Jan 4
Cory Doctorow
Thinking the unthinkableAt a certain point, we have to admit that the correct amount of radium in your suppository is zero.
Sep 19, 2024
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Sep 19, 2024
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Cory Doctorow
Tech’s benevolent-dictator-for-life to authoritarian pipelineIt’s damned hard to be an anti-authoritarian in a C-suite.
Dec 10, 2024
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Dec 10, 2024
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Sarah G. Carpenter, Ph.D.
when your imagination privatizes public worksTonight, in more of those dreaded TALES FROM FACEBOOK, we have a photo post with an idea that has been widely disseminated in the American…
Jan 1
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Jan 1
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Sarah G. Carpenter, Ph.D.
the (pan)optics of transparency & suspicion: reading william gibson and the comment threadsYou’re going to think I’m a heretic, but I don’t particularly care for William Gibson’s fiction.
Dec 27, 2024
Dec 27, 2024
Cory Doctorow
Canada sues GoogleThis is the US playbook we SHOULD be following.
Dec 3, 2024
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Dec 3, 2024
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Sarah G. Carpenter, Ph.D.
the “new normal” / unevenly distributedIt is no secret that Covid-19 has substantially altered the modern American workscape.
Dec 23, 2020
Dec 23, 2020
Sarah G. Carpenter, Ph.D.
united, w/o healthcare: navigating the healthcare marketplaceOn the day after the CEO of UnitedHealthcare (all one word, apparently) was gunned down in New York City, I spent most of my afternoon…
Dec 6, 2024
Dec 6, 2024
Cory Doctorow
Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platformMistrust, but verify.
Nov 23, 2024
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Nov 23, 2024
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