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  “One day you will be called on to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. Everything will depend on it.” How will you be ready? https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/anarchist-calisthenics

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  “Functional information-processing…is so utterly *un*like the lived intelligence of a human being that to call it ‘intelligence’ at all is to wholly falsify its nature. ‘Artificial intelligence’ is a highly consequential misnomer.” https://www.ft.com/content/bdb3b820-905b-431e-82c0-386535755af1

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  Erin is the best person to do this kind of work. Not only because she has the aptitude and care, but also because she is in the right place to both observe the clouds and report back to those of us on the ground. Everyone should throw money at her! https://www.wrecka.ge/launching-a-cloud-atlas/

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@aworkinglibrary/116954509408142262 Last call—applications for the work/shop close at noon EDT today!

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  To reduce reading to the practice of empathy is to divorce it of its real power and pleasure. https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/reading-matters-deeply

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  Building on Sacasas' point about loving our limits: it's not a coincidence that a lot of the people hyping AI are also making claims to immortality. Art without practice, praise without effort, life without death—this is all the same rhyme. https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/feeding-on-illusions

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  Very excited to be opening the sf work/shop for this fall. Applications are open now: https://everythingchanges.us/workshop/sf

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  Why we need anarchist calisthenics at work. https://everythingchanges.us/blog/break-what-should-be-broken/

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  Seeing some great applications rolling in already! This is gonna be a fun group. https://mstdn.social/@aworkinglibrary/116954509408142262

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  “If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/open-universe

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  Only a few more days to submit an application! Come join a crew of brilliant people building the imaginative muscle to make and move towards better futures. Applications are due Thu, noon EDT. https://everythingchanges.us/blog/fall-sf-workshop/

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  In my personal headcanon, Le Guin and Franklin are the *Ursulae*, and they are right at this moment resting in the shade of a great big tree, drinking tea (Franklin) and whiskey (UKLG) and talking about the end of the patriarchy—which for them has already happened.

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  I really think the only reasonable response to the increasing prevalence of 996 in the tech world is to organize for a 20 hour workweek with no reduction in pay. They are trying to move the Overton window for working hours; let’s drag it the fuck back.

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  We must not work for war. https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/into-the-gap

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  “Sometimes I just lay back and think about the fact that it’s whistles and car horns and crowds versus the modern gestapo….I couldn’t really wrap my head around the idea that this could work. But it does work.” https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighbors-in-minneapolis

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@aworkinglibrary/116398887867245347 Applications for the work/shop are due tomorrow at noon EDT; this is gonna be such a great group. https://everythingchanges.us/workshop/sf

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  The choice to cut parental leave is not properly understood as cost-cutting or simple leverage in a bad economy; it’s opposition to gender equality and we should talk about it as such. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/28/parental-benefits-slashed-deloitte-zoom-impact

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  RE: https://wandering.shop/@charliejane/116489258706211662 Agree with this and also: promotion doesn't have to mean blasting on social media. You can make your art and give it to one friend, or three. You can leave it for someone to find it. Someone has been tacking poems to light posts in my neighborhood and I love it! Art is a gift, and the gift must be given, but it needn't be given at scale.

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  “New choices are hard. But they’re still yours to make.” https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-04-30-cave-of-time/

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  “The passion for, devotion to, and identification with work would be diminishing if everyone were able to work less and less.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/correct-attitude

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  Becoming automatons: https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/automation-conformity

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  “Mass pseudo-culture…is a device invented by monopoly capital to facilitate dictatorship over a mystified, docile, debased humanity, whose impulse of real violence must be redirected into imaginary channels.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/pseudo-culture

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  At the point in an essay when I have written 10K words, gathered pages of notes, have come to despair as to whether there is anything here worth anything at all, considered moving to the woods and disappearing forever, when I write one halfway decent sentence and think, “Ah, this might be it!”

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  “We cannot meaningfully separate the everyday use of ‘AI’ platforms from their application in death and war.” https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propellant/

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  “I’ve worked really hard to set myself up with a life and career in which I can ‘me’ as much as possible.” Lovely piece from good people thinking about doing good work in these trying times: https://www.talkscratch.com/the-group-chat-how-we-get-by/

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  “What must be done is to bring the future into the present, to make power tangible *now* by means of actions which demonstrate to the workers their positive strength.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/reformed

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  You have to refuse to read the proposal from the person who also hasn’t read it. https://everythingchanges.us/blog/mouthwords/

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  Chewing on something here about how tools for professionalizing work (Kanban, etc) can also be used to abstract and make distant the ethics and consequences of that work. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

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  Super looking forward to this: the next speculative fiction work/shop will begin in late May. Applications are open now! https://everythingchanges.us/blog/summer-2026-sf-workshop/

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@aworkinglibrary/116398865657792680 Lots of great applications rolling in for this! So much fun to think about bringing a new group together. As a reminder, the application is brief, and should only take about 20 mins to complete. And like all my services, pricing is on a sliding scale—you pay according to your means. Applications due next Wed at noon EDT!