This project measures the human time required to deliver decent living standards through democratic economic planning. It reports weekly hours per 1,000 residents across core sectors (food, housing, utilities, care, mobility, industrial staples, culture, governance) under low/medium/high automation, then aggregates to total hours suggesting a ~10-hour social workweek at fixed quality and ecological ceilings

What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest “to solve intelligence”—a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind, such as in its complex neural networks. Matteo Pasquinelli argues, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations. Here he is interviewed by Richard Hames, audio producer at Novara Media.

There is a part where he critiques "vitalism in cybernetics"

Apocalypse Express is an action management Roguelike in which the player conducts, upgrades and repairs different parts of the train through endless waves of enemies in a post-apocalyptic setting. Departing the darkness of their lifelong shelter, the player decides to embark on a journey through the wasteland looking to fulfill the dream of seeing the outside world with their own eyes, charting out a map around the few remaining memories of the past world.

Apocalypse Express is an action management Roguelike in which the player conducts, upgrades and repairs different parts of the train through endless waves of enemies in a post-apocalyptic setting. Departing the darkness of their lifelong shelter, the player decides to embark on a journey through the wasteland looking to fulfill the dream of seeing the outside world with their own eyes, charting out a map around the few remaining memories of the past world.

In The Cat and the Coup, you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. During the summer of 1953, the CIA engineered a coup to bring about his downfall.

As a player, you coax Mossadegh back through significant events of his life by knocking objects off shelves, scattering his papers, and scratching him.

The game, situated within the traditions of Persian miniature art form and cold war foreign policy, asks players to consider their connection to Iranian history. The Cat and the Coup is both about the relationship between the Western video game player and Mossadegh and, by extension, the United States and Iran. It lays a foundation for today’s critical question -- how do the people know when their democracy is threatened?

What could be real uses of AI (llm, or generative) for anarchist organizations ?

Is there any ?

So far I didn't come for any AI use except for some fun with creating images, or text. It just gives junk data most of the time.

But are there some real life uses that showed beneficial ?

This story is profoundly ironic: America rejected cybernetics but implemented the cybernetic vision, while the Soviet Union did just the opposite: it paid lip service to cybernetics and stalled practical cybernetic projects. The cybernetics scare both focused the attention of U.S. science administrators on human-machine interaction and made explicit cybernetic references ideologically suspect. As a result, Americans pursued a narrowly defined but viable technical project, while the Soviets aimed at a utopian grand reform. This teaches us something about the power of discourse: it resides not so much in overt declarations but in subtle metaphors that change our mode of thinking and ultimately reshape our world. ≈

Thames Television drama-documentary about the West Riding Luddites, from 1988. Please note, although this documentary accords with many of the known facts, there are several instances of dramatic license being employed in this documentary. Particularly notable are the angry meeting between the manufacturers and croppers (which never took place), and the scene at the end where the priest tries to take confession from the condemned Luddites (a reworking of the legendary last words of the dying Luddite John Booth).

When reading some of Stanislaw Lem’s stories as a young adult, I first stumbled across the word ‘cyberneticists’ - basically denoting a tech wizard in the eyes of my younger self. Ever since reading Andrew Pickering’s The Cybernetic Brain - Sketches for another Future I think that this early impression was basically justified. In many ways cybernetics is the less successful but actually more brilliant twin of the poster child discipline of artificial intelligence (AI). Here I will explore why cybernetics was in many ways superior to AI, why it can still teach us a few important insights about the mind, and why cybernetics is relevant to the question of whether intelligent machines are dangerous for their creators.