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May 9, 2022: Carolyn Chen, author, "Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley"
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Today: Carolyn Chen, author, "Work Pray Code"
• Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley, by Carolyn Chen
• carolynchen.org, author site, with this bio: “Carolyn Chen, a sociologist, is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. The daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, she grew up in Pennsylvania and Southern California. Carolyn received her A.B. from Brown University, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley. She previously taught at Northwestern University in the Department of Sociology, as well as in the Program in Asian American Studies, where she served as Director. Chen’s research focuses on religion, spirituality and work in the new economy, as well as Asian American religions.”
• About those kill-switched Ukrainian tractors (Cory Doctorow, May 8, 2022): “John Deere makes this claim: in its battles against the right to repair, Deere styles itself as the guardian of the world’s food supply, whose information security is all that stands between us and a Russian (or Chinese, or supervillain) shutdown of the world’s ag-tech. They’re not wrong: John Deere’s decision to build ag-tech that can be remotely controlled, disabled and updated, along with its monopolization of the world’s ag-tech market, means that anyone who compromises its system puts the world’s food-supply at risk. Which is a terrifying proposition, because John Deere has extraordinarily terrible information security. ... That means that the tool that Deere used to brick all those stolen tractors in Chechnya is potentially available to even moderately skilled hackers who exploit Deere’s reckless decision to build kill-switches into its equipment and its negligent security.”
• This Is How Much Money You Have Now if You Bought $100 of Crypto 6 Months Ago (Gizmodo, today, May 9, 2022)
• GoFundMe for DJ Bryce, who was injured in a motorbike accident last month
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Tomaš Dvořák |
Game Boy Tune
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DJ Cremoso |
Losing My Religion Remix (Rüstico Mashup)
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Listener comments!
Mark - Your show in overlapping with Music For Mind Control more frequently.
ooo that would be something
Durkheim, yes. I love you
I’m going to buy the book 100%
Pray.....PRAY!?
Police....POLICE!?
- Maynard G Krebs
I've seen this with military officers as well.
But this is personal choice.
BTW, the bay area is insanely expensive. I feel for the non techs..
Hip Pies exist in relation to WWII & The Vietnam War (1954-1975) & Jim Crow America- the Horror and madness cannot be put into words lightly
But imagine being an immigrant serving the needs of these tech people. That's hard.
It depends on your family….
How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity"
30 years ago!! 1992
Neil Postman is a lover of wisdom and thank you for bringing him up
Won't be seeing Severence, but recommend The Silent Sea and The Baby as new shows this year
WE MAY SEEM TO BE A GLOBALIZED EDIFICE OF CAREFULLY ENGINEERED LAWS, SPECIOUS PATENTS AND SHAM REGULATIONS, BUT OUR PURPOSE IS TO ENGENDER LOVE." -- faceless corp in that blog.
Great show. Night all.
Good poem, Mark
Thank you