David Arditi
@davidarditi.bsky.social
Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism
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David Arditi
@davidarditi.bsky.social
· Oct 6
New Book
For those without library access, the Handbook for Critical Music Industry Studies here is a page with gift links to all chapters
centerfortheory.uta.edu/2024/10/02/c...
For those without library access, the Handbook for Critical Music Industry Studies here is a page with gift links to all chapters
centerfortheory.uta.edu/2024/10/02/c...
Reposted by David Arditi
This is the most predictable move
Labels: AI kills creativity and must be stopped
Me: they are going to stop opposing this as soon as they can make money and EXPLOIT LABOR
Labels:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Labels: AI kills creativity and must be stopped
Me: they are going to stop opposing this as soon as they can make money and EXPLOIT LABOR
Labels:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Warner Music signs deal with AI song generator Suno after settling lawsuit
Music company representing Coldplay and Ed Sheeran had sued tech platform alleging mass copyright infringement Business live – latest updates
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This is the most predictable move
Labels: AI kills creativity and must be stopped
Me: they are going to stop opposing this as soon as they can make money and EXPLOIT LABOR
Labels:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Labels: AI kills creativity and must be stopped
Me: they are going to stop opposing this as soon as they can make money and EXPLOIT LABOR
Labels:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
This is the most predictable move
Labels: AI kills creativity and must be stopped
Me: they are going to stop opposing this as soon as they can make money and EXPLOIT LABOR
Labels:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Labels: AI kills creativity and must be stopped
Me: they are going to stop opposing this as soon as they can make money and EXPLOIT LABOR
Labels:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Warner Music signs deal with AI song generator Suno after settling lawsuit
Music company representing Coldplay and Ed Sheeran had sued tech platform alleging mass copyright infringement Business live – latest updates
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This is the most predictable move
Labels: AI kills creativity and must be stopped
Me: they are going to stop opposing this as soon as they can make money and EXPLOIT LABOR
Labels:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Labels: AI kills creativity and must be stopped
Me: they are going to stop opposing this as soon as they can make money and EXPLOIT LABOR
Labels:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I had a dream where I missed the deadline to finish my dissertation.
Stress dreams!!!
Stress dreams!!!
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I had a dream where I missed the deadline to finish my dissertation.
Stress dreams!!!
Stress dreams!!!
"Well, they tell me of a pie up in the sky
Waiting for me when I die
But between the day you're born and when you die
They never seem to hear even your cry"
- Rest in power Jimmy Cliff
Waiting for me when I die
But between the day you're born and when you die
They never seem to hear even your cry"
- Rest in power Jimmy Cliff
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"Well, they tell me of a pie up in the sky
Waiting for me when I die
But between the day you're born and when you die
They never seem to hear even your cry"
- Rest in power Jimmy Cliff
Waiting for me when I die
But between the day you're born and when you die
They never seem to hear even your cry"
- Rest in power Jimmy Cliff
Reposted by David Arditi
"If hard work related to wealth, then meat-packers and daycare workers would be some of the wealthiest people in America"
-me 2025, forthcoming book
-me 2025, forthcoming book
November 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"If hard work related to wealth, then meat-packers and daycare workers would be some of the wealthiest people in America"
-me 2025, forthcoming book
-me 2025, forthcoming book
Nepotism is when your first performance is after you are already a star and thinking 100 people is a small first show
November 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Nepotism is when your first performance is after you are already a star and thinking 100 people is a small first show
Sure, this could be exciting. The problem is the people who develop these technologies don't think about consequences. Look at nuclear weapons.
Kluger's response: you're crazy if you don't see this is the future!
time.com/7330887/brai...
Kluger's response: you're crazy if you don't see this is the future!
time.com/7330887/brai...
Computer Chips in Our Bodies Could Be the Future of Medicine
The brain-computer interface is real. It's changing lives—and could soon change the world.
time.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Sure, this could be exciting. The problem is the people who develop these technologies don't think about consequences. Look at nuclear weapons.
Kluger's response: you're crazy if you don't see this is the future!
time.com/7330887/brai...
Kluger's response: you're crazy if you don't see this is the future!
time.com/7330887/brai...
Elizabeth Moss and Claire Danes need to make a show where they communicate with each other with close-ups of different expressions
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Elizabeth Moss and Claire Danes need to make a show where they communicate with each other with close-ups of different expressions
This was always the plan!
Automate jobs, fire workers, increase unemployed pool of workers, lower wages
Read Digital Feudalism!!!
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Automate jobs, fire workers, increase unemployed pool of workers, lower wages
Read Digital Feudalism!!!
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Why one of the nation’s most prosperous industries is shedding jobs
Tech companies from Meta to Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet continue to trim workers despite soaring revenue and billions of investments into artificial intelligence.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This was always the plan!
Automate jobs, fire workers, increase unemployed pool of workers, lower wages
Read Digital Feudalism!!!
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Automate jobs, fire workers, increase unemployed pool of workers, lower wages
Read Digital Feudalism!!!
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
We live in a moment of digital feudalism where people work precarious jobs for low pay. But capitalism requires us to consume more. As a result people become buried in debt.
books.google.com/books/about/...
books.google.com/books/about/...
Digital Feudalism
Over the past two decades, corporations and venture capitalists have adjusted business models to change the digital world. As a result, the global economy has undergone a massive shift, changing the w...
books.google.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
We live in a moment of digital feudalism where people work precarious jobs for low pay. But capitalism requires us to consume more. As a result people become buried in debt.
books.google.com/books/about/...
books.google.com/books/about/...
Guess I'm starting a collection now
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Guess I'm starting a collection now
"If hard work related to wealth, then meat-packers and daycare workers would be some of the wealthiest people in America"
-me 2025, forthcoming book
-me 2025, forthcoming book
November 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"If hard work related to wealth, then meat-packers and daycare workers would be some of the wealthiest people in America"
-me 2025, forthcoming book
-me 2025, forthcoming book
Cooper loves walks but hates putting on his harness. This is how he hid this morning
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Cooper loves walks but hates putting on his harness. This is how he hid this morning
RocketMoney . . . A useless subscription to keep track of your . . . Useless subscriptions . . .
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
RocketMoney . . . A useless subscription to keep track of your . . . Useless subscriptions . . .
I'm working from home, they're hard at work too
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I'm working from home, they're hard at work too
Economy is booming!
And by that I mean a bomb blew it up and the crater is forming
www.dallasnews.com/business/air...
And by that I mean a bomb blew it up and the crater is forming
www.dallasnews.com/business/air...
American Airlines laying off some management employees
Fort Worth-based American Airlines is laying off a “small” number of its management and support employees to “right-size for the work we do today,” a company...
www.dallasnews.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Economy is booming!
And by that I mean a bomb blew it up and the crater is forming
www.dallasnews.com/business/air...
And by that I mean a bomb blew it up and the crater is forming
www.dallasnews.com/business/air...
At DSW buying shoes this weekend, a dude came up to me like a drug dealer:
"I don't work here or anything, but you should really checkout Skechers, they will change your life"
"I don't work here or anything, but you should really checkout Skechers, they will change your life"
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media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
At DSW buying shoes this weekend, a dude came up to me like a drug dealer:
"I don't work here or anything, but you should really checkout Skechers, they will change your life"
"I don't work here or anything, but you should really checkout Skechers, they will change your life"
Reading a book that just said Thomas Jefferson was influenced by John Stuart Mill
Mill didn't start writing until after Jefferson was dead!
Mill didn't start writing until after Jefferson was dead!
October 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Reading a book that just said Thomas Jefferson was influenced by John Stuart Mill
Mill didn't start writing until after Jefferson was dead!
Mill didn't start writing until after Jefferson was dead!
Book Announcement:
I just published an OER textbook for Introduction to Popular Culture classes (or any other class that addresses popular culture) called "Keepin' Up with Popular Culture"
It is free, open-access. Please let me know what you think!
uta.pressbooks.pub/keepinupwith...
I just published an OER textbook for Introduction to Popular Culture classes (or any other class that addresses popular culture) called "Keepin' Up with Popular Culture"
It is free, open-access. Please let me know what you think!
uta.pressbooks.pub/keepinupwith...
Keepin' Up with Popular Culture – Simple Book Publishing
Keepin’ it real by keepin’ up with popular culture!
uta.pressbooks.pub
October 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Book Announcement:
I just published an OER textbook for Introduction to Popular Culture classes (or any other class that addresses popular culture) called "Keepin' Up with Popular Culture"
It is free, open-access. Please let me know what you think!
uta.pressbooks.pub/keepinupwith...
I just published an OER textbook for Introduction to Popular Culture classes (or any other class that addresses popular culture) called "Keepin' Up with Popular Culture"
It is free, open-access. Please let me know what you think!
uta.pressbooks.pub/keepinupwith...
"What we set out to do was nothing less than to explain why humanity instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism"
- Horkheimer and Adorno 1947
- Horkheimer and Adorno 1947
September 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
"What we set out to do was nothing less than to explain why humanity instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism"
- Horkheimer and Adorno 1947
- Horkheimer and Adorno 1947
Reposted by David Arditi
Bought a 1918 cylinder Edison Phonograph and records for $140!
July 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Bought a 1918 cylinder Edison Phonograph and records for $140!
Why didn't I know about Archive.today until last week? Get the Archive Page extension and be done with paywalls!
Archive.today
September 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Why didn't I know about Archive.today until last week? Get the Archive Page extension and be done with paywalls!