Convenience has a hidden bill, and someone always pays it. Gabe Bullard's new book traces how food delivery apps turn simple meals into transactions that quietly squeeze drivers, restaurant owners and the customers who think they're saving time.
— via 3 Quarks Daily — Philosophy, S. Abbas Raza
Platform capitalism didn't just widen inequality after 2008, recent studies suggest it helped structurally cause it, pushing us past ordinary markets into something economists are now calling techno-feudalism. The evidence: firms profiting less from making things than from extracting data and cutting deals with the state.
— via 3 Quarks Daily — Philosophy, David Hoyt
Ed Sheeran called himself apolitical after his tour dropped Macklemore over "free Palestine" chants, but he's backed Brexit protests, Corbyn and a Ukraine benefit concert. Philosophy says picking neutrality only on Palestine is itself a political choice.
— via The Conversation — Philosophy, Jacqueline Boaks, Philosopher, Curtin Centre for Applied Ethics, Curtin University
AI is quietly graduating from chatbot to actor: booking, negotiating, and managing tasks on its own, then talking to other AI agents doing the same. That shift, the author argues, means the real questions about AI are no longer about smarter answers but about autonomous action.
— via 3 Quarks Daily — Philosophy, Azra Raza
One sleep-science book turned a lawyer's nap habit into a full-blown "solved life" obsession. He traces the same logic straight into Gen Z's maxxing culture, where jawbone-smashing and self-prescribed meth pass for self-improvement.
— via Psyche (Aeon sister), Håkon Evjemo