5LL #196 - Time, Automation, Neoliberalism, Tugboats, Software

The Long Now
Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Late Light
The past is here. The future is also already here.
The Automation Myth
Clinton Williamson, The Baffler
Robots won’t build the classless society.
Rights Without Bounds: An Interview with Wendy Brown
Rafael Khachaturian and Wendy Brown, Dissent
The contemporary right has inherited two seemingly contradictory impulses from the neoliberal era: anti-democratic politics and a libertarian personal ethic.
Tug Life
Sarah Jaffe, The American Prospect
From Canada to Panama, tugboat workers are being squeezed as shipping companies earn record profits.
Agile and the Long Crisis of Software
Miriam Posner, Logic
What is Agile? And where does it come from?
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