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James Muldoon

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Associate Prof @Essex_EBS . Research Associate @oiioxford . Head of Digital Research @Autonomy_UK . New book: 'Feeding the Machine' with @Canongatebooks July 2024.

London, England

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James Muldoon

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2 months

Excited to launch my newsletter, 'Does not Compute', with weekly analysis and commentary on AI. First post is a deep dive into generative AI and copyright law. Ill keep this updated throughout the year. I would love you to check it out and subscribe.

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James Muldoon

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3 years

Excited to announce my new book, Platform Socialism will be coming out in Jan 2022 w @PlutoPress . It presents a set of concrete alternatives for how we could organise the digital economy + interesting histories and prototypes. Pls DM for reviews/chats etc.

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It's publication day for Platform Socialism! hoorah. here is a thread about the book to titillate and tantalise you 1/10

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Excited to share with you the UK cover for our new book Feeding the Machine with @CallumCant1 and @geoplace @stephenfry says: "Feeding the Machine may just be the most important book to be written in the current fever of AI publishing" UK pub date: 18 July 2024 Preorder now

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Malcolm Roberts should not be given a platform on #QandA . The guy got 77 personal votes, has no policy expertise and distorts the debate with his garbage mouth. A case of @ABCNetwork centrist “truth lies somewhere in the middle” nonsense. #auspol @Asher_Wolf

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repping their web1 design aesthetic. Not a digital token in sight, just Leftists living in their historical moment

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Excited to see my latest article out, “Data-owning democracy or digital socialism?”. It articulates a vision of democratic ownership and control over digital infrastructure and theorizes how this could be achieved.

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Excited to have just started a new project funded by an @ESRC New Investigator grant: “Platforms without Borders: Examining Migrant Labour on Global On-Demand Labour Platforms”.

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Met Tariq Ali last night and got him to sign a copy of his new book. We had a very meaningful exchange and I am sure he is never going to forget me.

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literally just published a book and all I can think of is how I am not doing enough. how do you get yourself out of this toxic mindset?

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🚨 New articles on AI labour Finally, the last of what I see as a triptych of articles is out! They are all on AI data work and explore how colonial patterns of power influence the production of AI systems. All written with fabulous co-authors as part of OII's @TowardsFairWork

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My toxic trait is I look every student in the eye as they leave the lecture theatre forcing them to thank me for the lecture on their way out

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I have a new article out with @mirjammue & @BrunoLeipold on women in the Paris Commune. In particular, it's on the 'Union des Femmes' who were the first women-led socialist feminist organisation, and created women's worker co-operatives

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Coronavirus might make socialists of us all, writes @james_muldoon_

Coronavirus Might Make Socialists Of Us All

A four-day working week, free childcare and a universal income are no longer distant policy issues – they are life and death, writes James Muldoon.

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Too sleepy to post last night, but I was really excited to read and review two new books by @bentarnoff and @parismarx with whom I am in furious agreement.

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Silicon Valley Is Privatizing Our Future

Most of us don’t want self-driving cars, yet governments are kowtowing to firms like Tesla rather than planning for sustainable means of transport. It’s just one example of how Silicon Valley has...

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still bearish on buying my book, Platform Socialism? Use the code: MULDOON30 to get 30% off from the Pluto website. code could expire at any time, creating a false sense of urgency and scarcity

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Platform Socialism

Whoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expa...

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New article! @apostopc and I examine the rise of digital workers who do not consider their labour as ‘real’ work. This degrades the value of their labour and facilitates companies offering low pay and poor conditions.

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Springer Nature wants to translate one of my books into German using artificial intelligence and sell it full price even though it would be an "automatic translation" (basically Google translate). absolutely zero shame anymore in academic publishing.

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Really excited for your book to come out on lib gen

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Overton window of sensible UK politics now seems to range from low tax/low spend austerity politics on the left to anti-trans culture wars and low-key fascism on the right

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2 years

Democracy ≠ unhinged billionaire owning town square

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Elon Musk

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Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy. What should be done?

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Gave evidence last night on behalf of @Autonomy_UK at the @APPG_AI meeting on Precarious Work & Digital Economy in the House of Lords. Spreading the word about the problems with microwork and the gig economy.

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Looking forward to #LabourDoorstep to defeat the Brexit Party. Please follow these amazing comrades. #SocialistSaturday @Hardeep216 @ElaineDyson1 @upsadaizy @suziegeewizz @jillychapman @StallaSimonin @NAJ562 @pelling_Laura @SkyeCitySeries @JulietB270880 @AnnieHailey8

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My book, Platform Socialism is available to pre-order from @PlutoPress for £16.99 but is already being sold on Amazon for £14.95! They are trying to embarrass me with their cost-cutting. Don't let them, friends. Pre-order en masse via Pluto! ;)

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Platform Socialism

Whoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expa...

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"Meta will be a holding company in charge of a thriving ecosystem of interconnected products and services, all seamlessly integrated into a hybrid world able to effortlessly extract profit at every point in the system." Me in @jacobin .

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Facebook Is Now Meta. And It Wants to Monetize Your Whole Existence.

Mark Zuckerberg’s turn toward the “metaverse” claims to put an extra digital layer on top of the real world. But Facebook’s new Meta brand isn’t augmenting your reality — it just wants to suck more...

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My review essay 'Is There an Alternative to Algorithmic Capitalism?' is now up on the Verso blog. It engages with the excellent book, Revolutionary Mathematics by @jjoque . Thanks for the opportunity.

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Is There an Alternative to Algorithmic Capitalism?

Is There an Alternative to Algorithmic Capitalism? Mathematicians of the world, unite. Algorithmic capitalism has taken hold of the most recent developments in statistics and placed them in the...

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Remember, Elon Musk was shown how $6 billion could help solve world hunger. Instead, he flushed $44 billion down the toilet. #TwitterIsOverParty

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Either I become the first academic ever to get a job after misspelling Assistant Professor in the first line of a cover letter, or I have wasted an incredible amount of time on something I can't edit or withdraw.

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Man is born free but everywhere is in blockchains

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🚨 New publication! @robertafischli and I argue for the importance of a European tradition of experiments with digital democracy that we call 'decentralized participatory democracy' - focussed on how citizens can build collective power and make decisions.

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Stokes I made the 7 hour journey to teach this pumping lecture hall of first years

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When you read headlines like these I want you to remember: - large data centres consume as much water and electricity as 50,000 ppl each day - global data centre electricity demand will double by 2026 - we will need 10-20 times more data centres by 2035

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Join me at my book launch for Platform Socialism on Tuesday 25th Jan. Sign up below.

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The Autonomy Institute

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⚡️New Event ⚡️ @Autonomy_UK are excited to host the launch of 'Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech'! Author @james_muldoon_ will be joined in discussion by @RahelSuess & @leonieclaude Tuesday 25th Jan, 17:00 GMT 👇

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My article today for @jacobin on web3 and platform socialism. "Web3 is unlikely to meaningfully redistribute value because it doesn’t challenge the fundamental drive to commodification that now dominates the web"

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"I have no suggestions for improvement" the sweetest words to have ever been uttered by a reviewer.

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started talking to them about deliberative democracy and this was the result

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wife with book 🥰

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Third, 'Artificial Intelligence in the Colonial Matrix of Power' sketches the broader theoretical framework of how the entire value chain of AI is structured by a logic of coloniality, operating through its inputs, algorithms and biased outputs.

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I have been waging a relentless campaign against Google to prove I am not 85 years old. No amount of passports, drivers' licence and me holding my ID with a copy of the day's paper has so far satisfied them. Trying to harness the spirit of the blitz. I will prevail.

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not guaranteeing workers' basic income = pure ideology over practical solution Iain Duncan Smith says universal basic income during coronavirus pandemic would be 'disincentive to work'

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Philosophy's proper role is to formalise social justice language posted to Reddit 5 years ago

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When you have to give a lecture on Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke at the same time.

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Really enjoyed speaking with Jan on the Future Histories podcast about my book Platform Socialism which is coming out on 20 January. Definitely check out his other episodes too.

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Future Histories

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A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to James Muldoon ( @james_muldoon_ , @UniofExeter , @Autonomy_UK ) about his upcoming book "Platform Socialism" ( @PlutoPress ). Full episode here: #Podcast #FutureHistories #PlatformSocialism

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Bad name and even worse concept, Meta wants to create a world in which it owns the infrastructure of your entire life.

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Facebook Is Now Meta. And It Wants to Monetize Your Whole Existence.

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I wrote about the impact of the new Spanish "rider law" on the gig economy and what this means for the global struggle against platform capitalism for @jacobin

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App-Based Corporations Can’t Just Ignore Labor Law

From today, food platforms in Spain will have to recognize delivery riders as workers, not bogus self-employed contractors. But businesses are already defying the law — showing the need to break...

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Why don’t my students laugh at my references to Simpsons seasons 3-10 jokes?

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You wouldn't believe it but the same prestigious journal also published this disturbing fat phobic article. In my reading, the author argues that only certain types of skinny white public objects can enter the world. Author @stevenmklein should stick to Jacobin op/eds. Shameful

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Me sitting alone in my office for 10 minutes after giving a lecture on Hobbes and feeling truly alive

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New article out now on “party-driven movements,” a new hybrid model we develop to describe social movement formations that emerge from within existing political parties. Helps us to understand UK/US radical left dynamics in the 2015-2019 period.

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Conceptualising party-driven movements - James Muldoon, Danny Rye, 2020

This article contributes to scholarship on the relationship between political parties and social movements by proposing the concept of ‘party-driven movements’ ...

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First, our latest piece in @BigDataSoc 'A typology of artificial intelligence data work' presents a new framework for understanding different types of AI data work and how they fit within AI production networks

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My wife started playing Red Dead Redemption 2 and I have never seen someone so into murdering the innocent. She turned to me and gleefully said ‘you can loot their bodies and if there are no witnesses you just get away with it’. Starting to worry.

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Never really done an interview like this, but if you want to know about my academic journey from Arendt to digital democracy through Hegel, workers' councils and platform socialism, Josef was kind enough to ask me about it.

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Josef Muehlbauer

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#Interview with Dr @james_muldoon_ on: Arendt, Machiavelli, Tristan Harris, Social Dilemma, Fabianism, Guild Socialism. He is a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Exeter and Head of Digital Research at the think tank called Autonomy

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Helping my wife prepare for a job interview last night and was struck by how easily she could do my job and how not in a million years could I ever do hers. Of course, now I know this, she can never be allowed to discover the truth.

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Who is working on tech companies and climate change? What articles/books do you recommend? I thought there would be tons of literature but finding it hard to get a sense of what is out there.

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every time I see this guy I have to remind myself he's not doing a bit, it's an actual MP

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Excited to see my latest interview on digital platforms out in @jacobin with excellent questions by @broderly . Never has a magazine done more to uphold the true neo-Kautskyite principles against ill-informed opportunists and adventurists.

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The Internet Platforms We All Use Should Be Publicly Owned and Democratically Controlled

Web3 shows how our online lives are increasingly being monetized. It’s time to take democratic control of the internet — turning the platforms we all use into free public services.

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Met so many great people in Rio this week at the #PlatformcCoop conference. Very cool to see all the amazing worker-owned initiatives from all over Brazil and Latin America. Muito obrigado a todos! @ITSriodejaneiro @PCC_Global

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Excited to have sold UK and translation rights for the book project “Humans of AI: the Hidden Labour behind Artificial Intelligence” to Canongate. It’s been an exciting project working alongside co-authors @CallumCant1 and Mark Graham @geoplace . Book will be published July 2024!

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. @canongatebooks has seized Humans of AI by Mark Graham ( @geoplace ), @CallumCant1 and @james_muldoon_ . Click the image to read the article ⬇️

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Me 10 minutes after my wife goes on a solo holiday

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Me in the Guardian on "Academics: it's time to get behind decolonising the curriculum"

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I will be presenting a paper on Platform Socialism at the Historical Materialism conference this year. It's at 3PM on 9 November. You should also check out what else is on because it looks great.

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Historical Materialism Journal

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Historical Materialism 18th Annual Conference Online - 2021 Programme - Registration for Individual Sessions through eventbrite links - and please Donate when registering

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Next, 'The Poverty of Ethical AI', presents a case study based on fieldwork conducted at Sama, a data annotation company with headquarters in San Francisco and outsourced centres in Kenya and Uganda and reveals the human costs of purportedly ‘ethical AI’

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First review of Platform Socialism is out. Very excited to see people engaging with the book. Thanks so much @TBSocialist . I am looking forward to you posting our chat on the next episode of your podcast.

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist ⬛🟥⬛

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I reviewed @james_muldoon_ 's latest book, "Platform Socialism" and it is a must read for anyone interested in DAOs, not because it talks about them, but because he provides a well thought out political framework that is applicable to them. Read it here 👇

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Airbnb has been hit hard by the coronavirus. We should replace it with a co-operative alternative like @Fairbnb_coop . My article in openDemocracy

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I'm launching a new series on philosophy and pop culture. First instalment: Nietzsche and Breaking Bad.

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My report on microworkers with @philjones7771 , @apostopc and @Autonomy_UK was released today. 95% of people we surveyed earning less than minimum wage with two in three earning less than 4 pounds an hour.

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Britain’s hidden online ‘microworkers’ paid less than £4 an hour

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It's publication week for Platform Socialism. You can still pre-order from Pluto Press.

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Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech

Book now available from Pluto Press: http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346977/platform-socialism/Credits:Music: "The Grid" by Savfk (https://soundcloud.com/sa...

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New Autonomy study I contributed to on a basic income for Wales is released today.

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The Autonomy Institute

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🗞️💷 New study: Basic income in Wales - What would its impact be? - What would it cost? - How could it be funded? The most comprehensive study to date, with new basic income model and interviews with a wide variety of groups. With @futuregencymru

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Really excited to be speaking at this event in April.

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Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy

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Can we recover forgotten ideas from the past to help us rethink our digital future? Join @james_muldoon_ as he charts a roadmap for an alternative vision for our digital future. ⏰ Tuesday 26 April 2022, 17:00 BST Sign-up for the online event:

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Looking forward to my keynote today at the #platformcoop conference in Rio. My fantasy is that I shock everyone and bust out flawless Portuguese.

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Arrived in Rio de Janeiro last night for the #platformcoop annual conference and the view of Copacabana beach this morning is incredible. So excited to be here after Lula's victory.

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Revolutionary Mathematics by Justin Joque @jjoque is a huge contribution to our understanding of the role of statistics and probability in the functioning of capitalism. The @Autonomy_UK think tank reading group loved it. A must-read for 2022.

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Revolutionary Mathematics

Our finances, politics, media, opportunities, information, shopping and knowledge production are mediated through algorithms and their statistical approaches to knowledge; increasingly, these methods...

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You want to know the secret to my gains?

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New paper with Paul Raekstad!

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European Journal of Political Theory

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New Online First article: Algorithmic Domination in the Gig Economy - James Muldoon @james_muldoon_ , Paul Raekstad, 2022

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Disagree this time with @OwenJones84 in @guardian today. Time is not right for Labour supporting an xmas election. We need to sort out Brexit so that the election can be fought over Labour's strengths: anti-austerity and rebuilding our communities.

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If the party picks up Johnson’s gauntlet, it must pitch itself as the antidote to an arrogant Tory establishment, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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BMG poll puts Labour only 6 points behind. We're on the up and are going to absolutely kill it in the final two weeks! Tory lead a tiny 6 points. Conservatives 39% (-2) Labour 33% (+5) Lib Dems 13% (-5) Brexit 4% (+1) Green 5% (-) 13 days to go. Let's do this!

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5 years

"The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." 17th century poem

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2 years

50% off my book Platform Socialism as part of Pluto Press May Day sale! It's Musk v Muldoon. One must choose a side. 👇

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Platform Socialism

Whoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expa...

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2 years

going to quit my 9 to 5 in academia to get all my students to work with me on pump and dump schemes in web3

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2 years

Just FYI with web3 discourse, Marx 'built' the International Workingmen's Association, the OG of DAOs if you will.

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3 years

Problematic behaviour here. Thought of @tmbejan .

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James Muldoon

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2 years

The email closes with "I would be very pleased if I could inspire you to be part of this innovation project helping to overcome the language barriers in science."

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2 years

An idea for an autobiography. ‘Beer: Coming of Age in Non-Communist Australia’. Like @lea_ypi but there’s no communism and just a lot of parties and stuff

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2 years

We do have the rule of law though. The problem is with the private ownership of digital media, which needs to be replaced by a socially owned alternative.

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Shoshana Zuboff

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2 years

Friends, Musk/Twitter headlines are all variants of ‘what will Elon do?’ It’s a signal of how lost we are. We obsess over one man and his whims because we don’t yet have the democratic rule of law needed to govern our information spaces. Without law power is dangerous.🧵[1/8]

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my students are becoming ungovernable.

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2 years

can't shake the feeling that there was a much more fun and liberated version of me crushed by academia that would be closing out a 4am set in Ibiza right now

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2 years

Fantastic to see my interview with @LolaBrittain in @tribunemagazine out about how we can democratise Big Tech, riffing off ideas from my Platform Socialism book.

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Democratise Big Tech

Tech corporations have wormed their way into every aspect of our lives. Regulation isn’t enough: we need democratic control over the digital economy.

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2 years

who are you trying to impress with your ', Ph.D.' after your Twitter name?

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2 years

By age 30 you should be in a romantic relationship with at least one dachshund

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4 years

Tories have gutted the NHS for years and now expect the community to step in to solve their crisis (for free!)

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Matt Hancock

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NEWS: Today we launch NHS Volunteers - we’re calling on those in good health to support our NHS across the country. Details:

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3 years

My article in Jacobin on why "breaking up" big tech should be about creating universal digital services.

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Don’t Break Up Facebook — Make It a Public Utility

We should be concerned about the power big tech firms have in our lives. But antitrust lawsuits against tech monopolies are just a Band-Aid for the real problem: the need to free the social networks...

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5 years

love this photo doing the rounds. #JacobReesSmug #GeneralElection2019

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2 months

My classes on bizness not quite as popular as when I used to dress up as Hobbes and fight students for sovereignty with foam noodles

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2 years

Really great talking to @parismarx on @techwontsaveus about my new book Platform Socialism. Thanks so much for having me on the podcast.

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Tech Won't Save Us

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This week @james_muldoon_ joins @parismarx to discuss his vision for a platform socialism that puts the public good before corporate profit. In this clip, James explains how platforms exploit the idea of community for profit and good PR. Full ep:

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2 years

Web3 is like stakeholder capitalism for gen Z. Nothing changes while business promises to give everyone their share.

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2 years

"digital goods will be an important way to express yourself in the metaverse" - the new spirit of the metaverse

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4 years

Happy birthday to @BrunoLeipold . I managed to find this old photo of him with his adopted family.

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2 years

Really enjoyed talking at this event with the Polish Economics Network @PLSiecEkonomii . Thank you to @ZygmuntowskiJ and all the other organizers and speakers!

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Polska Sieć Ekonomii

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2 years

#KongresRegeneracji za nami! Ogromnie dziękujemy wszystkim przybyłym na @KozminskiUni i obecnym z nami online! Partnerem Strategicznym I Kongresu Regeneracji jest @BGK_pl . Widzimy się - najpóźniej - za rok!

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3 years

My talk at Historical Materialism on Platform Socialism for anyone who wasn't able to make it: Great to be presenting alongside Bruna Della Torre and Isabel Roque on the Marxism and Technology panel.

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Marxism Technology, Politics

Join us for this session of HM Online 2021: Marxism Technology, Politics——————————————————————————————The new 'organization': digital culture industry and cu...

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3 months

🚨 Book recomendation: Code Dependent by @madhumita29 AI reporter for the @FT A wonderfully written collection of stories about the effects of AI and algorithms on every aspect of our lives. My dogs were meant to pose with the book but they were fighting over who was in shot

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2 years

Excited to be doing an in-person event for my book Platform Socialism with @CiaranCummins1 and the Demos think tank (one of my rare interventions in politics). If you'd like to come it's at 6PM on 25 May and you can sign up below.

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