5LL #248 - Social Housing, Computing, Kissinger, Venture Capital, Songwriters

Imagine a Renters’ Utopia. It Might Look Like Vienna.
Francesca Mari, The New York Times
Soaring real estate markets have created a worldwide housing crisis. What can we learn from a city that has largely avoided it?
Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control
Meredith Whittaker, Logic(s)
The templates for worker control that shaped Charles Babbage’s contributions to computing draw on technologies created on the plantation, which were already actively applied to control rebellious workers in industrial factories.
Dinner with a War Criminal
Dave Denison, The Baffler
One can draw lines from Henry Kissinger’s crimes to the wars that came after.
Abolish Venture Capitalism
Edward Ongweso Jr., The Nation
Venture capitalists have supercharged surveillance, immiseration, and dispossession. Why should we trust them with so much power over the economy?
Why Songwriters Can’t Have Their Own Writers Strike—Yet
Luke Ottenhof, Pitchfork
The WGA strike has put a renewed focus on creatives’ fight for fairer pay. When will musicians get their big moment?
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