5LL #234 - Palo Alto, Tradwives, The Dig, Databases, Production

Blame Palo Alto
Scott W. Stern, The New Republic

From Stanford to Silicon Valley, a small town in California spread tech’s gospel of data and control.

The Agoraphobic Fantasy of Tradlife
Zoe Hu, Dissent

In an increasingly expensive and antisocial world, tradwives forsake life with others for the lonely, constrictive spaces of bourgeois ownership.

Is The Dig the Most Important Podcast on the Left?
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Daniel Denvir, The Nation

A conversation with Daniel Denvir about how his podcast became an essential feature of a radical education, the challenges facing leftist organizers, and much more.

Database States
Sanjana Varghese, The Baffler

No database is neutral.

Technical Expertise and Communist Production
Nick Chavez, The Brooklyn Rail

We must have an understanding of how the productive knowledge and skills of the productive workforce are distributed, and how this can be leveraged towards not only the dismantling of capitalism but also the construction of communism.

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