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Jathan Sadowski
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ARC Future Fellow – Monash University // co-host – @machinekillspod // latest book – The Mechanic and The Luddite ucpress.edu/book/978052039…
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    Jathan Sadowski
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    Jan 5, 2025
    Thrilled to announce the official publication of my new book — The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism Grab my book to go beyond the vaporous hype and get the real material analysis of technological capitalism that we all need!
    Photo of a white man's hand holding a book titled THE MECHANIC AND THE LUDDITE. subtitled A RUTHLESS CRITICISM of TECHNOLOGY and CAPITALISM. author JATHAN SADOWSKI. The cover is a mottled red and orange with an image of a circular toothed gear with a crossed wrench and hammer inside. The title is rockered over the top of the gear and the subtitle is rockered below the gear.
    Back cover of THE MECHANIC AND THE LUDDITE book. DEMYSTIFIES HOW TWO SYSTEMS — TECHNOLOGY AND CAPITALISM — WORK TOGETHER AND EQUIPS US WITH TOOLS TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD Our society is constantly serving the needs of technology and capitalism. Neither system exists outside humans, but both are treated as above and beyond us. The Mechanic and the Luddite provides the critical tools we need to deconstruct these systems-how they work and what work they do in our lives. But It's not enough to know how the machinery of capitalism and technology operate; we also need to know whom the machines serve in order to decide whether they should be taken apart, rebuilt, or destroyed for good. With signature style, Jathan Sadowski gives readers a provocative and handy manual for understand- ing the power of technology and capitalism and, crucially, the power we must take back. "Jathan Sadowski is one of the most incisive and important thinkers on technology and capitalism today. This urgent book is
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    Jathan Sadowski
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    Sep 2, 2024
    Oh I don't know, I think that territory is actually very well charted
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    Jathan Sadowski
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    Jun 19, 2021
    Shot, chaser
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    Jathan Sadowski
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    Mar 27, 2022
    I love how we are now at a point—not only in capitalism but in manufacturing consent—where the news can just casually say, "This man owns 30,000 houses." Without the next sentence being, "And his existence is an indictment of society and an affront to god."
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    Housing Crisis Watch
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    Mar 27, 2022
    Toronto landlord who owns 30,000 houses explains why young people don't want homes
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    Jathan Sadowski
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    Oct 5, 2024
    This is the true AI doomerism. Not the stuff about a rogue AI enslaving humanity, but rather using AI as an ideological tool to justify the capitalist nihilism of maximum extraction by claiming its the only solution for planetary collapse.
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    Tsarathustra
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    Oct 5, 2024
    Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says energy demand for AI is infinite and we are never going to meet our climate goals anyway, so we may as well bet on building AI to solve the problem
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    Jathan Sadowski
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    Jan 27, 2025
    It's objectively funny to see DeepSeek — an open source, high performing AI model trained by a Chinese startup for less than $6 million — wipe $1 trillion off tech stocks only days after Trump, OpenAI, and SoftBank announce their $500 billion Stargate boondoggle.
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    Jathan Sadowski
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    Aug 5, 2022
    People forget that a while ago Roomba got caught making highly detailed maps of people’s homes and selling that information to third parties. Now that’s an Amazon company.
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    ron knox
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    Aug 5, 2022
    1. Hello. Amazon today announced it would pay $1.7 billion to acquire iRobot, the company behind the Roomba robotic vacuum. It may be the most dangerous, threatening acquisition in the company's history. A thread.
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    Jathan Sadowski
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    Apr 19, 2021
    did i do it right?
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    Jathan Sadowski
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    Oct 16, 2025
    That fact that anti-AI posts keep going mega viral tells you how much this bubble for AI bullshit is totally manufactured by Silicon Valley. The only people who really want it are the tech companies and their useful idiots.
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    han 🐇
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    Oct 13, 2025
    YOU CAN TURN OFF AI IMAGES ON PINTEREST NOW!!!!
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    Jathan Sadowski
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    Aug 26, 2024
    Ironically, economists regularly tell policymakers to ignore epidemiologists and climate scientists when their findings contradict the ideological pseudoscience of economists.
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    Peter G. Klein
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    Aug 22, 2024
    Imagine The Atlantic running a piece titled "Sometimes You Just Have to Ignore the Epidemiologists" or "Sometimes You Just Have to Ignore the Climate Scientists" theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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    Jathan Sadowski
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    Mar 3, 2022
    Uhhh well, what can I say… I’m very sorry and take full responsibility
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    Jathan Sadowski
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    Jul 19, 2022
    Economists have spent so much time studying how monetary incentives influence behavior, they have become immune to those very same influences. Homo economicus? That's y'all, not me.
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    Jathan Sadowski
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    Apr 13, 2021
    holy shit I've rarely seen a footnote used to such devastating effect. newrepublic.com/article/162000…
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    Jathan Sadowski
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    Jul 6, 2022
    The guy who just won the Fields Medal – like a Nobel Prize for mathematics – has a work ethic we should all emulate. Three house of focused work per day based on following his desires at that moment. quantamagazine.org/june-huh-high-…