The Unpaid Cognitive Labor Behind AI Chat Systems: Why “Users” Are Becoming the Invisible Workforce Article Most people think of AI systems as tools. That framing is already outdated. When … Continue reading →
The Authoritarian Stack: It starts with Palantir: The following are clips from an interactive website showing the ongoing, functional control of the US Government by Silicon Valley and Venture Capital. … Continue reading →
Engage! is now ten years old. I started this blog back in 2015, after making my Bodhisattva vows. The blog was a way for me to express and work through … Continue reading →
Meredith Shiner writes about her personal experience as a resident in Chicago, how parents and neighbors came together to protect their neighbors from ICE. Neighbors developed simple and effective strategies … Continue reading →
The following is a video playback of Gil Duran’s conversation with Wajahat Ali on The Left Hook. The strength of the democratic uprising on Tuesday Nov. 4 shows that we … Continue reading →
Gil Duran connected his newsletter readers to a visual network of Silicon Valley companies, billionaires, ideologues, politicos, and technologies that are, right now, in the process of replacing “antiquated” democracy … Continue reading →
It’s not just South Asia—Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal—that are seeing Gen Z youth protest political corruption and economic inequality; it’s happening around the world. Gen Z youth are leading … Continue reading →
In the last three years, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal have experienced youth-led revolutions that caused the toppling of their respective governments and transformation of their countries. Himal Magazine, which … Continue reading →
Bearing Witness at the ICE Field Office in Burlington By Dawn Olcott On a quiet side street right behind the Burlington Mall, immigrants are placed together in cells inside a … Continue reading →
Surplus Humanity & Futural Communism By holopoiesis on August 6, 2025The slogan “We are the 99%” emerged during the Occupy movement, thanks in large part by David Graeber, to point to the extreme disparity … Continue reading →
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