Mike Bulajewski

@mrteacup

Philosophy. Psychoanalysis. Social movements. Design. Technology. Ethics. Director of Product Design. ex-

Seattle, WA
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Joined August 2008
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    12 Dec 2018

    New from me: The Sharing Economy Was Dead on Arrival

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  2. Feb 2

    Oh and Jeff Bezos is getting a title change, but nothing is really changing with his role at the company.

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  3. Feb 2

    Wow big news at Amazon, Andy Jassy is replacing Jeff Wilke!

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  4. Jan 31

    Tim Cook v. Zuckerberg has fatally wounded the tech critic premise of “Big Tech” as a unified entity. I think we will just get a rebalancing of power among the tech giants at the end of this.

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  5. Retweeted
    Jan 30

    And here is the review process created by former Googlers while they were at Twitter

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  6. Jan 26

    Time to churn out some cheap critiques of surveillance capitalism tech behemoth monopolist GameStop

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  7. Jan 11

    “OK I get why you’re upset about your house. We replaced the load-bearing walls with windows and then the roof caved in. But I prefer to think of it as… post-structuralism.”

    "I am no prophet, my job is to make windows where once there were walls." Foucault
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  8. Jan 11

    The fact that the social media “platform” critique focuses exclusively on Facebook/Twitter and not AWS/Apple/Google/Visa/MC is a striking proof of its disingenuousness

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  9. Retweeted
    Jan 11

    It’s funny to think of Twitter applying for permission to increase rates to do cost-recovery. But also one feature of how utilities are regulated is you *absolutely cannot* turn off the white nationalists’ electricity. Is that what we want? More Nazis on every platform?

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  10. Retweeted
    Jan 10

    IMO, the move by Apple and Google to remove Parler from their stores is I think much more significant than Facebook and Twitter’s bans, and the move by AWS and Twilio to deny it service is more significant again. B2B suppliers acting as regulators by default.

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  11. Jan 9

    Maybe people don’t understand that a big part of the workforce is foreign. They have no political investment in US politics, or even any real connection to Western political ideals.

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  12. Jan 9

    Coinbase: lost 5% of employees after saying no to politics. New Relic: Portland company, but CEO is a trump supporter. There’s minor unrest.

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  13. Jan 9

    I’m seeing a massive overestimate of the scale of tech worker radicalism, and underestimate of the number of resumes flying in to replace those threaten to leave.

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  14. Jan 9

    Then why did they wait 3.99 years to do it?

    Let’s be clear, the employees made this happen. Stock markets don’t care and pundits don’t move the needle. The biggest risk facing tech giants is losing talent. Their armchair-libertarian faux-intellectualism is all well and good until engineers don’t want to work there anymore.
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  15. Retweeted
    Jan 5

    Is critical theory, long reviled by conservatives, now more aligned with the right than with the left? Maybe so:

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  16. Jan 4

    It’s a union of solutionists.

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  17. Jan 4

    This seems fundamentally true to me. This “union” was created in an attempt to restore the hopes of white collar tech workers that the public good can be achieved via capitalism.

    a tiny fraction of google employees appropriating the language of exploited coal miners while enjoying the most privileged, white collar work experience in human history should not be the subject of glowing press. this isn't a union, it's a LARP. and it's offensive.
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  18. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    i too am furious at the can opener dad because his account of the tool was insufficiently Heideggerian

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  19. Jan 3

    When you can’t persuade someone, lie and emotionally blackmail them

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  20. Jan 3

    When you say the quiet part out loud

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  21. 23 Dec 2020

    These are just basic, widely-known facts, folks.

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