20200813 Links
The Last War in Albion, aka “A Four-Colour Psychochronography”
“The Last War in Albion is an ongoing feature of this site, currently running on Fridays. It is an ongoing critical history of the British comics industry focused primarily on the magical war between Alan Moore and Grant Morrison. Its primary narrative runs from the publication of Grant Morrison’s earliest professional comics work in 1979 through to the present day, although its style is characterized by frequent digressions both forwards and backwards in history.”
“My grandfather, Pestonjee Pader, was a gentle man with a raucous, childish sense of humour, but not far beneath the surface lurked a sense of tragedy. He liked to tell stories, but most of them ended in one of two ways: “… and then, unfortunately, we had to leave”, or “… and then, tragically, they passed away too soon”.”
Inside an Amazon Warehouse, Robots’ Ways Rub Off on Humans
The PR backflipping in this mein gott. Why on earth the NYT would pull their punches on Amazon, I don’t know. I’ll probably try and compile a bigger post about worker experiences in automated warehouses and Amazon specifically later since it’s research for Face Worker
“…underlying Mr. Long’s charge was the idea that Amazon treats workers as if they were something less than people — that its obsession with optimizing fulfillment centers for a world of one-day delivery requires a system of stifling routines, rules and metrics. That system can make workers feel patronized and spied on. It can crowd out personal initiative. There seemed to be something to the picture Mr. Long painted, though the problem may be less with Amazon than with technology itself.”
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