Announcing Issue 18: PIVOT.
This issue will mark a turning point for Logic, toward new editors, new voices—and hopefully, someday, new parties.
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Social media has been bad for social movements. What’s a better model?
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Powerful mail day
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My latest piece is available! What happens when cargo ships become data? A lot of weird stuff, possibly. logicmag.io/pivot/ghost-sh
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What happens when ships become data?
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Happy new year! We just extended the Logic School application deadline to Jan 13th! We have an amazing group of guests this year, incl , , , , Blunt from + more. We welcome written or recorded applications.
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A bit late, but I'm very happy to feature in the latest issue of the on home, with a piece tentatively entitled "Apartheid by Algorithm", inspired by my research on credit scoring and housing in South Africa.
Hope you enjoy it, please share any feedback you have!
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Announcing Issue 17: HOME.
With contributions from Kevin Miller, @paologerbaudo, @RahelSuess, Alex Ahmed, @perhaxis, @bafeldman, @UpFromTheCracks, @JulienMigozzi, @LinZhang9, Tu Lan, and @danmcquillan.
Shipping to subscribers this month.
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Got my copy! It’s really lovely and cannot wait to read the other pieces.
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Logic School was one of the most beautiful labor organizing spaces I’ve ever experienced. Highly recommend applying.
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Good editing hides itself; in this conversation, we wheel Logic’s editorial machinery out from its hidden abode and try to explain how it all fits together.
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Read the editors' note below. Issues will be mailed out to subscribers soon.
"For now, we want to say how much we cherish the readers we have found. We hope you will hold on to what we have made, and care for it enough, to make it something else."
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We are currently soliciting pitches for Issue 19 of Logic(s): supa dupa skies (move slow and heal things)
Pitch window closes on January 27, 2023
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Been meaning to do this for awhile: Some people have told me that they've used my piece on Agile in the classroom. (Thank you!) I know my students like to listen to things, so I made an audio recording of the story. Listen or download here:
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What are the underlying conditions we need to create, to live in the world we want? We believe technology (from the distributed web to ancestral technologies) has a role to play in answering these questions.
Please help us spread the word! 🧡🧡✨🌱
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At Logic School, we’re guided by the idea of “underlying conditions” – what are the underlying conditions that have grown the world we live in now?
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Classes begin in March, and applications are now open. We welcome all tech workers — whether you’re a project manager, warehouse worker, software engineer, or ride-share driver.
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🎒🎒Applications are now open for Logic School 2023 year 2! Logic School is an online, community run, experimental school for tech workers looking to remake tech from below. It's stewarded by participants from our first cohort , with support from .
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Please take a look at this thoughtfully written resource.
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Last night, friends from the birdapp reached out to us, asking us to publish a layoff guide for their coworkers.
It is written thoughtfully and with great care. If you work at the company, we encourage you to take a look.
collectiveaction.tech/2022/a-layoff-
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We’re incredibly excited to announce that applications for the 2023 Student Fellowship are now live!
You'll spend 8 weeks exploring tech, humanity, and power through a book club, writing workshop, and community mentorship.
Learn more + apply by November 18th.
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Are you a student interested in the big questions on tech and power? Don't miss this wonderful opportunity!
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We’re incredibly excited to announce that applications for the 2023 Student Fellowship are now live!
You'll spend 8 weeks exploring tech, humanity, and power through a book club, writing workshop, and community mentorship.
Learn more + apply by November 18th.
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my old roommate wrote a piece about baltimore city schools and the false promises of education tech in . it's very thoughtful!
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An influx of relief money for schools is creating a potential payday for the edtech sector.
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"Algorithmic scoring tech are especially advanced in South Africa b/c of their deep historical roots in racist social control... And this information dragnet has enabled the re-segregation of housing markets in the post-apartheid era of formal equality."
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Zillow considered as a content company
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Zillow is more than just a real-estate website: It’s a window into the American dream. logicmag.io/home/turning-e
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Zillow is more than just a real-estate website: It’s a window into the American dream.
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The infrastructural legacies of apartheid have made modern South Africa into an especially stark illustration of the New Jim Code.
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“If the toxic payload of unconstrained machine learning is the state of exception, its inversion is an apparatus that enacts solidarity.”
Fascinating and important piece by in :
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Care dot com wants you to hire nannies from its platform—and then watch them constantly.
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Coming home to London and found this brilliant new issue of in the post. and I write on how the internet politicizes our most intimate spaces. logicmag.io
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New on a plane! ’s piece on the data logics of family policing is a must read:
“The production of administrative data is a mechanism through which family policing agencies regulate and manage where poor people are allowed to go and with whom”
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'AI becomes the automation of former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s mantra that “there is no such thing as society.”'
Important to see where this might be headed, especially in light of the past 24 hours
Great stuff from Dan McQuillan:
logicmag.io/home/deep-lear
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“The shift to algorithmic ordering doesn’t simply automate the system but alters it, without any democratic debate.”
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AI is a technology for managing social murder. logicmag.io/home/deep-lear
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AI is a technology for managing social murder.
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Harrowing account of those in the "digital poorhouse".
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An exceptional article about the racism embedded in the predictive algorithms used by CPS agencies.
As explains, the "data" these tools produce "are just technical translations of long-standing convictions about Black pathology."
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Child welfare agencies are in the family policing business. And just as with other forms of police, their analog violence is powered by digital systems.
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"Google Nest and its imitators would have us believe that we can remain kings of our castle, and everyone in it, even when we are away. By contrast, we share the view of the philosopher who said that it is part of morality not to be at home in one’s home."
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Announcing Issue 17: HOME.
With contributions from Kevin Miller, , , Alex Ahmed, , , , , , Tu Lan, and .
Shipping to subscribers this month.
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A reminder that Logic is soliciting pitches for its eighteenth issue, PIVOT.
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