We have become a civilization based on work in itself. We have come to believe men and women who do not work harder than they wish at jobs they do not enjoy are bad people unworthy of love, care nor assistance. It's as if we've collectively acquiesced to our own enslavement."

An extract from the introduction to the Book; Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber!

In The City and Its Uncertain Walls, Haruki Murakami explores the transformative potential of storytelling The Japanese author’s new novel features a walled town with no music or books, a speaking shadow, the ghost of a head librarian, and a teenage boy who remembers every book he has read.

theconversation.com/in-the-city-...

Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!
#literacy #libraries #librarians

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

Divide and Rule in Neo-Liberalism.

The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.

1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia

2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff

www.404media.co/the-editors-...

As I attend an open day this morning for City University, a sobering reminder that in parts of the world women are banned from going to University:

Now with capital, the basis of the social order is of course value production, value creation, and surplus value creation. But on the other hand, clan society is not about that. Clan society tends to be concerned with loyalty, honor, trust and all the rest of it.

We need strong institutions more than ever to build societal consensus in dealing with epochal changes, including those surrounding artificial intelligence, economic inequality, the future of work, aging and climate change.

The Limits of Basic Income Providing people with cash payments has benefits, but guaranteed employment and public services are a better option for transforming our economy.

I wrote this piece about how a public job guarantee + universal services enables us to overcome problems that a basic income alone cannot. Please tell me what you think in the comments below. 👇https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2024/01/the-limits-of-basic-income

Our new development theory needs to start at the fundamental issue of our goal: everyone must have a dignified life.
From there, everything flows.

Eqbal Ahmad discussing how Edward Said, Noam Chomsky and himself could not write a word about the Middle East in the pages of the New York Times.
#Palestine
Tom Friedman gets mention..

same here 🤣😂