The engineering mindset so often fails to ask the messy, non‑deterministic questions of ethics, second‑order consequence, and who a technology might harm or exclude. But treating code as neutral and ethics as “someone else’s job” isn’t intellectual humility but a dangerous fallacy: every database schema is a philosophy, every pull request a moral stance, and every sprint that ignores social cost is a value judgment in disguise.
Read MoreAssumptions inherited in code reinforce societal inequalities, and ethical accountability necessitates identifying hidden biases in systems and redesigning developer education to prioritise human dignity over technical convenience.
Read More"Capitalist realism" can help us understand why it's so hard to imagine life beyond capitalism. From cooperative success stories to recent economic crises, we'll challenge some common myths about human nature and explore how we might start imagining different possibilities for our future.
Read MoreThe structural suppression of deep, revisitative learning carries with it substantial ramifications for the manner in which we conceptualise ideas, conduct our studies, and ultimately develop our understanding of various subjects.
Read MoreLet's look at the common, pre-fabricated arguments used to dismiss socialism and communism. We will dismantle these persistent myths one by one, from the idea that "it only works in theory" to the conflation of equality with sameness, using historical context and data to challenge the dominant narrative.
Read MoreLate-stage capitalism produces a specific kind of generalised contempt that masquerades as insight, and this flattening of all suffering into undifferentiated disgust serves power by demobilising the very people who might otherwise organise against it.
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