YEAR II  ·  No. 584  ·  WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2026

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The Measured Gesture, the Alienated Body. Wage Discipline and the Automation of Punishment on Global Platforms

In February 2026, April Watson hit her head in an Amazon warehouse in the United States. What followed was not the intervention of a supervisor nor the activation of a medical protocol with a human face. An artificial intelligence assistant could not locate the correct workplace accommodation form while the Time Off Task counter kept … CONTINUE READING →

Your capacity to not be alone was the first natural resource Silicon Valley learned to extract

Nearly one in four people aged over fifteen reports feeling quite or very lonely, according to the study conducted by Meta and Gallup between 2022 and 2023 across 142 countries. The figure is staggering, but what is most revealing is who published it. The very company whose platforms have been documented as instruments of systematic … CONTINUE READING →

Learning Every Day as an Act of Resistance in a System That Doesn’t Need You to Be Stupid, Just Distracted

There is a distinction the system would rather we not make. Between knowing and learning. Between accumulating and transforming. Libraries are full of people dead on the inside, as the saying goes, and it is true, but there is something more precise to say. In the information age, that inner death has become profitable. This … CONTINUE READING →