Where Are All the Robots, Anyway?
Automation is booming in rural China, the strongholds of the US auto industry, and the world’s oldest countries.
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Conversations With Friends
When chatbots take over the world, might they do it as members of a vanguard party?
Issue 52: Dossier
How to speak machine overlord.
Issue 52: Letters
Two takes on our rapidly aging “Aging” issue.
Issue 52: The Internet Speaks
At the next Jacobin party, we’ll all dance on Henry Kissinger’s grave.
The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
A journey through your iPhone’s family tree.
All I Want for Christmas Is U(AW)
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
ChatVP
Until recently, nobody could generate meaningless platitudes more efficiently than Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Apologia Olympics
Even before his corpse was cold, the rehabilitation of Henry Kissinger had begun.
The Merry Men of r/Overemployed
Why settle for one bullshit job when you could have two?
Pros @ Cons
The most pernicious computer viruses in history have touched millions and cost billions since the early aughts.
The Bad Breakup With China
The US is trying to reduce its dependence on China. China is trying to be totally economically self-sufficient. But they can’t seem to let each other go.
Ghana’s Maladjustment
Africa is suffering from a continent-wide debt crisis, the result of decades of dependence on predatory international finance. Ghana is its latest victim.
Seven Decades of War
The current conflict in Gaza is the latest in a long series of violent clashes.
This Machine Kills Socialists
For centuries, working-class musicians have raged against the machine.
Metal Men on the Silver Screen
We already know about the terrifying and beautiful future promised by artificial intelligence. We’ve seen it play out on film for years.
Over the Line
In the good old days, we called a novelty phone line when we wanted to talk to a machine.