Zachary Kaiser

@zacharykaiser

Associate Prof. of Design at Michigan State University. Proud (and exhausted) Luddite. Always a Badger. My views.

Ann Arbor and East Lansing, MI
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Joined March 2010
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    20 Mar 2020

    I wrote/presented a thing about this a while back - "The Sonic Interface to Precarity." -

    We see regular dips in streaming numbers for our catalogue every weekend, so this fits with work/commute stoppage - and poses the question: is Spotify in truth a work tool, not a leisure time entertainment...?
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  2. Feb 24

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    Feb 18

    apparently the future of art is making imaginary things for rich ppl to get richer off investing in and speculating on, so basically like the history of art, but faster and worse and on a scale nobody can control, cool

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    Feb 17

    • This AI does not "read children's emotions" • There are not seven universal emotions • Facial muscle data does not correlate reliably with a person's inner state Covid is being used as a pretext to install this in remote classes, then keep it.

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  5. Feb 10

    basically everyone with a Ring, Halo, Echo, etc.

    franz kafka's stories but rewritten so the protagonist is completely hyped and enthusiastic about everything happening
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    Feb 9

    Reminder: IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. The richest 1% of Michiganders are expected to receive 30% of the GOP tax law’s benefits coming to the state - The richest 1% can expect an avg 2020 tax cut of $52,230 while the poorest 20% of Michiganders expect an avg cut of just $50.

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  7. Feb 7

    one major difference: one shouldn't exist and the other should be a worker-owned cooperative operating under a radically different political-economic regime. but good try, Tim.

    Facebook isn't Apple and Apple isn't Facebook. "I try to encourage people to think a level deeper than that and think about the companies themselves and their business models and how they conduct themselves."
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    Feb 4

    It’s just so wild to me that Amazon frames driver safety as an issue of drivers not being disciplined enough instead of Amazon’s notoriously inhumane demands and working conditions

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    Before they take it down, here's the video Amazon circulated internally to roll out what amounts to the largest expansion of corporate surveillance in human history: using artificial intelligence enabled cameras on their fleet of thousands of delivery vans
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    Feb 3

    Almost everything you hated about Amazon under Jeff Bezos will likely get worse under Andy Jassy. After all, the incoming CEO ran AWS as it massively expanded contracts with ICE, the fossil fuel industry, police, and the military & intelligence services.

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  10. Jan 28

    I know that there are lots of other horrible things happening in the world so this isn't a big deal but, you know, it bugged me, so... tweets.

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  11. Jan 28

    While the Coors "project" isn't explicitly about a subject's "dream data," it speaks to capital's aspirations towards colonizing every aspect of our inner lives, mining and exploiting them.

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  12. Jan 28

    This writing came out of research for an exhibition called "the Dr. Pawel Norway Dream Machine," and these projects are concerned with the way dreams become data.

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  13. Jan 28

    I wrote about capital's extractive practices mining our dreams for some time ago:

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  14. Jan 28

    saw this coors light commercial and I want to talk about the claws of capital puncturing our dreamscapes. and I have been working on/thinking about this for some time.

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  15. Jan 25

    oy.

    NEW: Dozens of Chinese companies and researchers are pushing pseudoscientific "emotion recognition" technology, according to a new report from . One particularly concerning application? Schools.
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    Jan 20

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 12

    Everyone knows the student debt crisis is hurting young people, but it’s also hurting our seniors. The government can garnish up to 15% of your social security payments to collect on student loan debt, hampering one of the greatest anti-poverty programs in the country. Thread.

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    Jan 12

    And they had the nerve to throw in that this was somehow for “team safety.” Workers will lose 40 hours of rest per year. It’s long past time to unionize Amazon—every damn subsidiary.

    Whole Foods announced that it will shave thousands of workers' paid break time from 15 to 10 minutes as part of an effort to "maximize...productivity."
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    Jan 8

    "funding from...Koch Industries ($375k) Comcast ($200k) Walmart ($140k) Home Depot ($125k) Amazon ($100k) TikTok ($75k) 1-800 Contacts ($51k) Chevron ($50k) NRA ($50k) Monsanto ($50k) Facebook ($50k) Fox ($50k) Uber ($50k) Coca Cola ($50k) Exxon ($50k) & Google ($25k)"

    The Rule of Law Defense Fund, arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association helped organize the protest preceding the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol that took place on January 6, 2021. 🔽
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    Jan 8

    Lots of individuals and corporations who have funded right-wing death squads, armed conflicts overseas, and backed politicians opposed to certifying the election used Strong Words to condemn the riot they enabled.

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    Jan 6

    ., and still provide platforms for white supremacists. Companies like and still allow them to fundraise. They've seen what it can lead to when they are allowed to organize and radicalize. It's time to deplatform them once and for all.

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