Finn Dawson

Amazon is Building a Surveillance Empire on the Backs of Delivery Drivers. A new report from the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) exposes the dark underbelly of technology-driven workplace surveillance.” Above the text is an old school television with an antenna featuring a surveillance snapshot from a camera inside of an Amazon delivery van. The Amazon logo is upside down and is a frown. Around the television are disembodied eyes and ears.

🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR:

Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.

Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...

An image of my hand holding Thomas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket

about to become extremely annoying

Clifford D Simak sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/simak_... was born on this day, so here's are some of his covers: for 'Time and Again'; the fixup novel 'City'; plus two for omnibus's that include both novels (Artist: Chris Moore, [couldn't identify], Karel Thole and [couldn't identify]):

Image of Palestine protestors on the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Sydney Harbour Bridge today -- have never seen anything like this

Notes on Cosmic Osmo (1989) maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...

lyrics from the rapper $ilkmoney: "Shit, nowadays, I feel so easily irritated/Like how shrinkflation got corporations shortin' me pieces of beef bacon/How the Pro dropped and barely any games even utilize ray tracing"

$ilkmoney gotta be the only person in the world rapping about ray-tracing

Quote from Billy Woods song "Remorseless": "It's a freedom in admitting it's not gonna get better"

reading the news like

Doing both these things at the same time is great because i'm now spending all my time thinking about how DS2 imagines circulation and the importance of logistics/transportation labour for it. You literally build highways to make commodities move quicker!

Just unbelievably cooked, horrific

I haven't fleshed it out into a full article, but at DiGRA last year I presented this talk which was a Marxist analysis of the tendency of (indie) developers becoming publishers after a big hit. Maybe of interest to the current discourse I'm seeing around publishers

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ey014...

he'll be covered in blood and goo and just lie down its so gross 🤢

Death Stranding 2 semi-accurately captures Australian verbiage until they start referring to bushfires as "wildfires"

born to play Death Stranding 2
forced to read Capital vol. 2

Reading the first 70% of The Talented Mr. Ripley: 😀
Reading Patricia Highsmith's Wikipedia page when I'm 70% through The Talented Mr. Ripley: 😬

Yeah well maybe those shareholders should go and prospect this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fart_(w...

the quests are watching ads?

Discord is trying to get me to buy orbs and complete quests -- literally who is asking for this shit

in spite of the decades-long clamoring for the need to look at video games as a serious and consequential art form, we still largely don't do that. instead they're still largely approached as excellent machines for a certain kind of playful addiction. the "play" is more important than anything else

Walter Benjamin famously argued that fascism is about the Ghibli-isation of politics

Austin Powers, Oh Behave! for the Gameboy Color Screenshot

Austin Powers, Oh Behave! for the Gameboy Color Screenshot

Austin Powers, Oh Behave! for the Gameboy Color Screenshot

Austin Powers, Oh Behave! for the Gameboy Color Screenshot

fuck Windows 11, I'm running the Austin Powers OS

It was so good!!! So keen to read what comes out of it

I guess it's good to know that there is a line for elite conduct somewhere but it is depressing how it's more commonly drawn in response to breaches of etiquette rather than, say, dropping of bombs or withdrawals of food aid

Dictionarylikes are spelling bees, scrabble, crosswords. Encyclopedialikes are many variants of browsing the Dark Souls wiki

fuck roguelikes I'm over here playing dictionarylikes and encyclopedialikes

Reading Jameson:

Let's goooo

Just now finding out about this remix!?!

Typee by Herman Melville

Reading Typee - Melville loves descriptions of sucking, rubbing, massaging, ejaculating (prayers, of course). Highly erotic work!

I played some Roblox as a kid lmao

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