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Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)
@Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)
OK, I've been silent for a while because ... research. My wife's gonna kill me if I write another book, but I realized she's not on Mastodon, so let's keep this our little secret, eh? My question: does the following make your socks roll up and down or is it a yawnfest?

I was comparing AI job displacement to the Enclosures—English commons privatized, millions of workers displaced. Seemed like a tidy historical parallel. Unfortunately, I kept reading. And reading. And reading. 1/8
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Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) · 7w
The parallel was too tidy. The pattern went much further back. I started with a simple question: why does wealth extraction feel so relentless right now? Gig work, algorithmic rent-seeking, AI displacing workers while stock prices soar. My assumption was that capitalism was broken and I was wonderi...
Violet Madder · 6w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq4zv6g8vypsqceptz7hpm5hhduxuml4t9x5c3clftzj5y73wzuk0ql29989 This goes WAY beyond "job displacement", though. The digital commons ARE being enclosed-- and the parts they can't fully control, they are destroying. "AI" slop is a signal jammer, poi...
David J. Atkinson · 6w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq4zv6g8vypsqceptz7hpm5hhduxuml4t9x5c3clftzj5y73wzuk0ql29989 It’s an idea hiding in plain sight, not that it is obvious but the deduction is straight forward. Personally, I believe it goes a bit deeper. Is this the nature of social development s...