@lawcha.bsky.social Kindly published my review of Abundance on their LaborOnline blog

I’d definitely be there if it wasn’t at the same time as the panel I’m presenting on

Using Spongebob memes to teach about workers’ rights

The response to this specifically (“But his family gave permission!”) and the strike in general by self-identified “gamers” and others who worship at the altar of pop culture is not surprising, but it is disappointing. And makes my desire for furthering labor/political education all the stronger.

Reading Brent Cebul on supply-side liberalism and it’s abundantly clear the extent to which “Abundance” advocates are merely New Democrats warmed-over. As the saying goes, first as tragedy, then as farce

(Ok I guess it was a call-in to a podcast and not filmed but still)

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He in fact did

Found another piece calling out a retired steel exec’s sexism, racism, & ableism - what would be decried as “woke” nowadays coming from one of the most stereotypically masculine industries

Today I found a brief article in a 1979 issue of Steelabor lamenting the tendency of certain journalists to swoop into blue-collar areas and declare themselves working-class whisperers. I’ll post a screenshot later. They call it “shot and beer journalism”.

Got symphony tickets for my birthday, but in a turn of events that would make Adorno roll over in his grave, the orchestra will be performing music from an anime soundtrack.

Reading some Bifo this evening and then maybe a bit of Liedman’s Marx biography before bed.