Huge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society
“The proportion of working-class actors, musicians and writers has shrunk by half since the 1970s, new research shows.” #Culture
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The honest truth about leaders who want to replace their workers with AI
"The problem tends to show up when a CEO is handed an agentic tool like Claude Code, and has it create something, which will work just fine, and thinks “oh, wait, why do we need so many people, when I can just sit here and make things work?” This is a bad CEO."
To build the future, we need theories of change
News tends to treat technology as something that happens to it, like an asteroid. To better navigate the future, we need to imagine what might come next.
It's not enough to have better ideals.
You also need to build a better product.
The community-first software era
Some ideas about how to encode our values into the tools we use