slept pretty good aside from a vivid nightmare about the walls closing in at the same time as the floor started fissuring apart. ah! "tuesday again no problem". let's go
September 29, 2026 at 2:55 PM
slept pretty good aside from a vivid nightmare about the walls closing in at the same time as the floor started fissuring apart. ah! "tuesday again no problem". let's go
everything we do is explaining the sunrise
September 25, 2026 at 12:26 AM
everything we do is explaining the sunrise
While Latin Christendom was irretrievably fissuring in Europe, it was finding new pastures elsewhere.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
September 24, 2026 at 12:43 PM
While Latin Christendom was irretrievably fissuring in Europe, it was finding new pastures elsewhere.
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
#1572ayearintheendofchristendom
“Often framed by platform owners as offering workers self-management, gig work is best understood as an instance of fissuring—part of a broader restructuring of American labor markets towards wage competition and individual bargaining.”
NEW by Benjamin Y. Fong
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-f...
NEW by Benjamin Y. Fong
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-f...
Benjamin Y. Fong | Two Paths for Rideshare Organizing
Can rideshare drivers be successfully organized without being classified as employees?
phenomenalworld.org
September 3, 2026 at 2:35 PM
“Often framed by platform owners as offering workers self-management, gig work is best understood as an instance of fissuring—part of a broader restructuring of American labor markets towards wage competition and individual bargaining.”
NEW by Benjamin Y. Fong
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-f...
NEW by Benjamin Y. Fong
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-f...
i will be honest all the cracks in our military publicly fissuring at once has me pretty worried about a coalition of the willing.
August 27, 2026 at 4:08 AM
i will be honest all the cracks in our military publicly fissuring at once has me pretty worried about a coalition of the willing.
New post: Elite Power Plays: The U.S. Troop Withdrawal as Control
The withdrawal of 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany is not merely a headline; it is a cipher for the deeper cracks fissuring the post-Cold War global architecture.
#Power #Politics #Society #Essays
The withdrawal of 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany is not merely a headline; it is a cipher for the deeper cracks fissuring the post-Cold War global architecture.
#Power #Politics #Society #Essays
Elite Power Plays: The U.S. Troop Withdrawal as Control
The withdrawal of 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany is not merely a headline; it is a cipher for the deeper cracks fissuring the post-Cold War global architecture.
power-and-powerlessness.com
August 22, 2026 at 6:35 PM
New post: Elite Power Plays: The U.S. Troop Withdrawal as Control
The withdrawal of 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany is not merely a headline; it is a cipher for the deeper cracks fissuring the post-Cold War global architecture.
#Power #Politics #Society #Essays
The withdrawal of 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany is not merely a headline; it is a cipher for the deeper cracks fissuring the post-Cold War global architecture.
#Power #Politics #Society #Essays
@vdoellgast.bsky.social & co-authors describe how we see a process of “AI-enabled fissuring” in which the political economy & technical affordances of AI have created a “new spatial division of AI labor” that builds on the trends highlighted in the 2020 Arise investigation. doi.org/10.54394/voq...
August 19, 2026 at 2:50 PM
@vdoellgast.bsky.social & co-authors describe how we see a process of “AI-enabled fissuring” in which the political economy & technical affordances of AI have created a “new spatial division of AI labor” that builds on the trends highlighted in the 2020 Arise investigation. doi.org/10.54394/voq...
In the Arise investigation in 2020, you’ll find all kinds of worker issues that have since increased: training payment schemes, fissuring, unreasonable handling time expectations, workplace monitoring, NDAs, binding arbitration, etc. www.propublica.org/article/meet...
Meet the Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You
Arise Virtual Solutions, part of the secretive world of work-at-home customer service, helps large corporations shed costs at the expense of workers. Now the pandemic is creating a boom in the industr...
www.propublica.org
August 19, 2026 at 2:50 PM
In the Arise investigation in 2020, you’ll find all kinds of worker issues that have since increased: training payment schemes, fissuring, unreasonable handling time expectations, workplace monitoring, NDAs, binding arbitration, etc. www.propublica.org/article/meet...
Really interesting paper looking at how the fissuring of the workplace (a la Weil) has affected racial inequality. clemaeppli.github.io/Aeppli_JMP.pdf
clemaeppli.github.io
August 18, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Really interesting paper looking at how the fissuring of the workplace (a la Weil) has affected racial inequality. clemaeppli.github.io/Aeppli_JMP.pdf
My feeling is that the UK is fissuring. We have experienced crises in different ways in our different nations and even within. The State is not fit for purposeand imposes dysfunction from the centre. Pressure is building. It wont hold for ever. Eventually a crisis will arrive that proves too much.
August 5, 2026 at 8:16 AM
My feeling is that the UK is fissuring. We have experienced crises in different ways in our different nations and even within. The State is not fit for purposeand imposes dysfunction from the centre. Pressure is building. It wont hold for ever. Eventually a crisis will arrive that proves too much.
Paradigms are fissuring
Im watching it in real time
More are going to be tempted to drill down into ideology of X
The certainty of a social construct they’ve adhered to attempting to create a conviction out of it.
Be aware as they process loss of foundation thru a dogmatic gripping
Im watching it in real time
More are going to be tempted to drill down into ideology of X
The certainty of a social construct they’ve adhered to attempting to create a conviction out of it.
Be aware as they process loss of foundation thru a dogmatic gripping
July 29, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Paradigms are fissuring
Im watching it in real time
More are going to be tempted to drill down into ideology of X
The certainty of a social construct they’ve adhered to attempting to create a conviction out of it.
Be aware as they process loss of foundation thru a dogmatic gripping
Im watching it in real time
More are going to be tempted to drill down into ideology of X
The certainty of a social construct they’ve adhered to attempting to create a conviction out of it.
Be aware as they process loss of foundation thru a dogmatic gripping
A lot of people who should know better from at least observing the past decades of financialization and fissuring, among other trends, when asking this question, but check out
-Expulsions, Saskia Sassen
-Remaindered Life, Neferti X. M. Tadiar
-Down to Earth, Bruno Latour
among others as a start.
-Expulsions, Saskia Sassen
-Remaindered Life, Neferti X. M. Tadiar
-Down to Earth, Bruno Latour
among others as a start.
Where will the demand for AI come from if AI erodes what remains of the American middle class and much of the working class?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whos-gonna-buy-all-the-ai-stuff
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whos-gonna-buy-all-the-ai-stuff
July 10, 2026 at 8:47 PM
A lot of people who should know better from at least observing the past decades of financialization and fissuring, among other trends, when asking this question, but check out
-Expulsions, Saskia Sassen
-Remaindered Life, Neferti X. M. Tadiar
-Down to Earth, Bruno Latour
among others as a start.
-Expulsions, Saskia Sassen
-Remaindered Life, Neferti X. M. Tadiar
-Down to Earth, Bruno Latour
among others as a start.
Protecting workers from #fissuring requires enforcing #jointemployment. Thanks to @timothynoah.bsky.social @newrepublic.bsky.social & @briancallaci.bsky.social for making the case. newrepublic.com/article/2124... @crampell.bsky.social @epi.org
How Trump Plans to Crush Fast-Food Workers
Franchising is usually a racket. Now it will be more of one.
newrepublic.com
June 30, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Protecting workers from #fissuring requires enforcing #jointemployment. Thanks to @timothynoah.bsky.social @newrepublic.bsky.social & @briancallaci.bsky.social for making the case. newrepublic.com/article/2124... @crampell.bsky.social @epi.org
With Twitter it was really more of an anal fissuring
June 26, 2026 at 2:56 PM
With Twitter it was really more of an anal fissuring
well, it might be useful to understand the differences that are fissuring within the Democrats.
June 24, 2026 at 8:03 PM
well, it might be useful to understand the differences that are fissuring within the Democrats.
This should be seen in context of the IRGC being able to put this down with a swipe of a pen.
This is internal fractures fissuring under peace negotiations, something that has never happened before what so ever, and is not a key feature of authroitarian peace negotians.
This is internal fractures fissuring under peace negotiations, something that has never happened before what so ever, and is not a key feature of authroitarian peace negotians.
Hardline protesters in Tehran are accusing Iran’s negotiating team of acting without the Supreme Leader’s approval, pointing to Mojtaba Khamenei’s silence on the talks as evidence he has not endorsed them https://t.co/SVGASJKnZw
June 13, 2026 at 10:34 PM
This should be seen in context of the IRGC being able to put this down with a swipe of a pen.
This is internal fractures fissuring under peace negotiations, something that has never happened before what so ever, and is not a key feature of authroitarian peace negotians.
This is internal fractures fissuring under peace negotiations, something that has never happened before what so ever, and is not a key feature of authroitarian peace negotians.
An 18-month-old girl with MEF2C haploinsufficiency, developmental delay, & infantile spasms presented in shock w/ prolonged fevers, hemorrhagic fissuring of lips, swelling of hands & feet, & morbilliform rash rapidly evolved into diffuse desquamating eruption. Infectious eval was negative
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June 7, 2026 at 12:39 PM
An 18-month-old girl with MEF2C haploinsufficiency, developmental delay, & infantile spasms presented in shock w/ prolonged fevers, hemorrhagic fissuring of lips, swelling of hands & feet, & morbilliform rash rapidly evolved into diffuse desquamating eruption. Infectious eval was negative
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#Trump chops another woman from his cabinet. His polls are dire. The #Iran war is a fiasco. The US$1.8 billion corrupt slush fund is fissuring the #GOP. Endless lies. His execrable patholgies on full display. Let’s fire somebody. #corruption #fascism #USA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard leaving post after rocky tenure
White House reportedly forced Gabbard to resign after she was sidelined from Iran and Venezuela operations and becomes fourth woman to depart Trump’s cabinet
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2026 at 10:55 PM
#Trump chops another woman from his cabinet. His polls are dire. The #Iran war is a fiasco. The US$1.8 billion corrupt slush fund is fissuring the #GOP. Endless lies. His execrable patholgies on full display. Let’s fire somebody. #corruption #fascism #USA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
1. Yikes, I’m glad nobody was hurt
2. Note the workplace fissuring: “The warehouse was operated by National Freight Inc. (NFI) Industries, a third-party logistics firm.”
2. Note the workplace fissuring: “The warehouse was operated by National Freight Inc. (NFI) Industries, a third-party logistics firm.”
This guy recoded himself setting his workplace on fire while complaining about his company's low pay and posted it. I saw the video recently but didn't know it was real.
finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...
finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...
Worker who said he wasn’t paid enough to live accused of torching Kimberly-Clark warehouse serving 50 million
A massive warehouse of paper products was totally destroyed by fire. A video on social media shows fires inside a warehouse, as a person says ‘All you had to do was pay us enough to live.’
finance.yahoo.com
April 12, 2026 at 2:55 PM
1. Yikes, I’m glad nobody was hurt
2. Note the workplace fissuring: “The warehouse was operated by National Freight Inc. (NFI) Industries, a third-party logistics firm.”
2. Note the workplace fissuring: “The warehouse was operated by National Freight Inc. (NFI) Industries, a third-party logistics firm.”
This article hits on an important trend: the tech industry has long relied on contract labor (& the inequities that result).
“AI layoffs” may provide additional cover for what’s really AI-enabled fissuring and an increased conversion of full time employment to contract and outsourced labor.
“AI layoffs” may provide additional cover for what’s really AI-enabled fissuring and an increased conversion of full time employment to contract and outsourced labor.
Companies are refilling positions they eliminate due to AI — sometimes with cheaper workers, sometimes with contractors. It's a trend that could help companies save money and strip workers of benefits and job security. And it's very hard to quantify.
www.businessinsider.com/sneaky-truth...
www.businessinsider.com/sneaky-truth...
Tech companies are pulling a classic layoff switcheroo
Tech companies are axing full-time roles. They're hiring some back as contractors.
www.businessinsider.com
April 1, 2026 at 1:52 PM
This article hits on an important trend: the tech industry has long relied on contract labor (& the inequities that result).
“AI layoffs” may provide additional cover for what’s really AI-enabled fissuring and an increased conversion of full time employment to contract and outsourced labor.
“AI layoffs” may provide additional cover for what’s really AI-enabled fissuring and an increased conversion of full time employment to contract and outsourced labor.
The fracture was always there. Its now fissuring.
Thats what happens in right wing selfish politics.
There is no agreement, its me, me, me. The biggest me wins in the short term.
Thats what happens in right wing selfish politics.
There is no agreement, its me, me, me. The biggest me wins in the short term.
March 27, 2026 at 11:13 PM
The fracture was always there. Its now fissuring.
Thats what happens in right wing selfish politics.
There is no agreement, its me, me, me. The biggest me wins in the short term.
Thats what happens in right wing selfish politics.
There is no agreement, its me, me, me. The biggest me wins in the short term.
A lot of people who are elder millennials like myself were/are suffering with poor mental health care access at schools and other institutions plus ontop the strain and stress of a fissuring capitalist structure that demands 2 or more jobs to pay off basic living needs, it's all going to add up.
March 18, 2026 at 2:34 AM
A lot of people who are elder millennials like myself were/are suffering with poor mental health care access at schools and other institutions plus ontop the strain and stress of a fissuring capitalist structure that demands 2 or more jobs to pay off basic living needs, it's all going to add up.
Covered a lot of ground - from sit-down strikes and the Treaty of Detroit to fissuring of the workplace to the "unexpected compression" and full employment ... and what does that funny word "monopsony" have to do with all this? Oh and a small dose of AI, of course.
March 17, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Covered a lot of ground - from sit-down strikes and the Treaty of Detroit to fissuring of the workplace to the "unexpected compression" and full employment ... and what does that funny word "monopsony" have to do with all this? Oh and a small dose of AI, of course.
The kids are not alright: the adults have dragged them into our national fissuring on immigration. Excellent piece on one emblematic incident.
www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/02/20/s...
www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/02/20/s...
Student who punched another student holding pro-ICE sign at Lake Zurich High School received 2-day suspension
No criminal charges were filed, but the student who punched another student for holding a pro-ICE sign at Lake Zurich High School last week received a two-day suspension and is back in class.
www.lakemchenryscanner.com
February 22, 2026 at 8:38 PM
The kids are not alright: the adults have dragged them into our national fissuring on immigration. Excellent piece on one emblematic incident.
www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/02/20/s...
www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/02/20/s...