wrote about the Navier-Stokes affair and what we owe to each other as people
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September 8, 2026 at 8:40 PM
wrote about the Navier-Stokes affair and what we owe to each other as people
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Historians are often tempted to tell you something is "worth about X in today's dollars." Here's why I think you should not do that, and what I think you should do instead
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Please Stop Putting Very Old Things in "Today's Dollars"
Instead, do this
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August 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Historians are often tempted to tell you something is "worth about X in today's dollars." Here's why I think you should not do that, and what I think you should do instead
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It's Our America Too
The radical legacy of the revolution
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October 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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"the tech works and that's exactly the problem, let's figure out what to do about that" was also the most productive response by workers to 19th-century industrialization
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May 4, 2026 at 5:04 PM
"the tech works and that's exactly the problem, let's figure out what to do about that" was also the most productive response by workers to 19th-century industrialization
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or, in longer form
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We Can Do Better than Luddism
Lessons for the age of AI from 19th-century shipwright organizing
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August 21, 2026 at 7:12 PM
or, in longer form
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the time has come
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Death to Chromebooks
I Have No Local Processing Capability and I Must Scream
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June 26, 2026 at 5:44 PM
the time has come
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I have once again written about the revolution and today-- this time, the Stamp Act riots, Tesla protests, and the possibilities and limits of consumer activism
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Stamps and Cybertrucks
Lessons from two object-focused protest movements
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May 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I have once again written about the revolution and today-- this time, the Stamp Act riots, Tesla protests, and the possibilities and limits of consumer activism
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AI boosters are promising "agents" that can replace workers. But what exactly is an agent anyway? My attempt at answering that, with implications for the White House's "anti-woke AI" orders, using insights about social history and LLM structure together
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What LLMs mean for "Agency"
Secret agent(ic) man
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July 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
AI boosters are promising "agents" that can replace workers. But what exactly is an agent anyway? My attempt at answering that, with implications for the White House's "anti-woke AI" orders, using insights about social history and LLM structure together
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buttondown.com/anotherway/a... have a short old blog post on this kind of math, which is as grotesque as it is fake. "Value of statistical life" might be a necessary expedient in some policy areas. We should treat it as regrettable and disdainful, not as a heuristic to apply anywhere we can avoid it
"The Value of a Human Life is About $10 Million"
Immigrant workers and the coercive foundations of our economy
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September 24, 2026 at 3:20 AM
buttondown.com/anotherway/a... have a short old blog post on this kind of math, which is as grotesque as it is fake. "Value of statistical life" might be a necessary expedient in some policy areas. We should treat it as regrettable and disdainful, not as a heuristic to apply anywhere we can avoid it
There is no conversation without explanation. A monarch commands. A president explains. The tech right’s embrace of inexplicability– in AI and elsewhere– has a history, and that history points toward a terrible future we must reject at all costs. buttondown.com/anotherway/a...
A World Without Why
Hayek, "AI," and the assault on explanation
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May 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
There is no conversation without explanation. A monarch commands. A president explains. The tech right’s embrace of inexplicability– in AI and elsewhere– has a history, and that history points toward a terrible future we must reject at all costs. buttondown.com/anotherway/a...
Why do RFK Jr. and so many of his ivermectin-swallowing adherents seem to support disease itself? In a vain attempt to deny their own mortality, they've turned to the same 19th-century libertarian crank ideas that gave us eugenics
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RFK Junior Is Going To Die Someday
Folk Lamarckism and the pro-disease movement
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September 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Why do RFK Jr. and so many of his ivermectin-swallowing adherents seem to support disease itself? In a vain attempt to deny their own mortality, they've turned to the same 19th-century libertarian crank ideas that gave us eugenics
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Brilliant to see so many familiar and new faces at @socialcarefuture.bsky.social event. So much positive energy already. Building people power...for positive change #socialcare #anotherway
September 19, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Brilliant to see so many familiar and new faces at @socialcarefuture.bsky.social event. So much positive energy already. Building people power...for positive change #socialcare #anotherway
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I wrote this post a while back as a readily deployable warning for all your "please don't do simple transtemporal inflation calculation" needs
I wrote this post a while back as a readily deployable warning for all your "please don't do simple transtemporal inflation calculation" needs
June 22, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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I wrote this post a while back as a readily deployable warning for all your "please don't do simple transtemporal inflation calculation" needs
I wrote this post a while back as a readily deployable warning for all your "please don't do simple transtemporal inflation calculation" needs
Wrote this a few weeks ago as a sort of shareable argument against generative AI in schools, because our students and our societies cannot afford to lose what AI is taking from us
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May 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Wrote this a few weeks ago as a sort of shareable argument against generative AI in schools, because our students and our societies cannot afford to lose what AI is taking from us
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September 9, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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I’m Henry Snow, a labor and economic historian who writes about working people over the last four hundred years, their insistence that things don’t have to be the way they are, and their struggles wit...
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forgive newsletter shilling (I was going to cancel the paid tier but now of course have different plans) but since i will continue to be an adjunct for the foreseeable future you can also support my work at buttondown.com/anotherway and by preordering my book www.versobooks.com/products/312...
wrote about the denial reflex and economics-eugenics nexus behind RFK Junior's vaccine restrictions
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RFK Junior Is Going To Die Someday
He can't accept that, so we'll all die sooner
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May 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
wrote about the denial reflex and economics-eugenics nexus behind RFK Junior's vaccine restrictions
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wrote about AI, Hayek, a bit on the IDF, and what it means to make decisions without explanation or justification. The fact that "AI" output can't be explained is part of its appeal, for the right-- and I think part of the definition of the term itself
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A World Without Why
Hayek, "AI," and the assault on explanation
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May 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
wrote about AI, Hayek, a bit on the IDF, and what it means to make decisions without explanation or justification. The fact that "AI" output can't be explained is part of its appeal, for the right-- and I think part of the definition of the term itself
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buttondown.com/anotherway/a... this is also true for dr oz
August 27, 2026 at 3:14 PM
buttondown.com/anotherway/a... this is also true for dr oz
July 4, 2026 at 12:24 PM
I wrote this for the 4th of July. The revolution doesn't belong to MAGA, and neither does America: working people in the revolution offer an example for those of us who believe in equality and freedom
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It's Our America Too
The radical legacy of the revolution
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July 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I wrote this for the 4th of July. The revolution doesn't belong to MAGA, and neither does America: working people in the revolution offer an example for those of us who believe in equality and freedom
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September 8, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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Big Tech talks a big talk about AI: it's coming for our jobs, everything will change! But if that's true, why can't they imagine endpoints other than "doom" and "capitalism but with a UBI"? Here I consider what mass AI unemployment would actually mean for the future
Big Tech talks a big talk about AI: it's coming for our jobs, everything will change! But if that's true, why can't they imagine endpoints other than "doom" and "capitalism but with a UBI"? Here I consider what mass AI unemployment would actually mean for the future
Six Futures for Big AI
You can't have capitalism without workers
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July 27, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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Big Tech talks a big talk about AI: it's coming for our jobs, everything will change! But if that's true, why can't they imagine endpoints other than "doom" and "capitalism but with a UBI"? Here I consider what mass AI unemployment would actually mean for the future
Big Tech talks a big talk about AI: it's coming for our jobs, everything will change! But if that's true, why can't they imagine endpoints other than "doom" and "capitalism but with a UBI"? Here I consider what mass AI unemployment would actually mean for the future