Ben Tarnoff

@bentarnoff

tech worker, #1 dad, cofounder

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Joined April 2010
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  1. 3 hours ago

    Salar is one of my favorite thinkers and his latest, on what a party is and what it does, is very interesting

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  2. 7 hours ago

    I love and miss Taiwan

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  3. 23 hours ago

    What

    This new paper really upends conventional narratives about international development. Basically, poor countries are developing rich countries, not the other way around. I'll highlight the key points in the thread below:
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  4. Sep 5

    Looks good

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  5. Sep 4

    I'm interviewing Oscar Gandy for Logic soon. What should I ask him?

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  6. Sep 4

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    Sep 4

    Ellen Ullman calls + 's VOICES FROM THE VALLEY "ever more urgent in this digital age." It's out, alongside three other books from contributors, on October 13.

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    Sep 3

    The audio quality on these socialist podcasts is just horrible — they need the government to send them some state issued microphones and a civil audio engineer 😂

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    This week, joins to discuss how history can inform a better future of tech and what a Biden presidency might mean for tech organizing. In this clip, Ben explains how the Luddites saw tech in the present tense. Listen to full ep:
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    This week, joins to discuss how history can inform a better future of tech and what a Biden presidency might mean for tech organizing. In this clip, Ben explains how the Luddites saw tech in the present tense. Listen to full ep:

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  10. Sep 2

    If someone says they share your goals but disagree with your means for achieving them, chances are good they don't share your goals

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  11. Sep 2

    It's been easy to point to Trump's sky-high approval ratings among Republican voters and say the Never Trumpers had no constituency, but the data that Karp examines suggests there are plenty of disaffected rich Republicans going Democratic this cycle

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  12. Sep 2

    There's a lot to think about in this Bernie postmortem, but the point that I found especially significant (and surprising) was that the Never Trumpers have basically succeeded in bringing conservative wealthy suburbanites into the Democratic fold

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    Sep 1

    In the open 27th Middlesex District of the Mass. House (incumbent retiring), Erika Uyterhoeven has won the Dem primary. She will almost certainly win in November.

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  14. Sep 1

    The Democratic Party is an email list I can never unsubscribe from

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  15. Aug 31

    When I was thirteen I read a very long text document that said all you needed to know to be a hacker is "cat /etc/passwd" and sometimes, when I need a little thrill, I'll run that command

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  16. Aug 31

    But it's also quite rational, in the sense that anticommunism correctly perceives that struggles against racial capitalism *are* existentially threatening to existing regimes of accumulation. This is what gives anticommunism its apocalyptic force

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  17. Aug 31

    On the one hand, anticommunism is "a form of demonology" that can persist without actual communists because it's immensely useful for representing democratic movements as disloyal, foreign, and existentially threatening

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  18. Aug 31

    Important insights from on the apocalyptic rage of the American right and the apparent paradox of "anticommunism without communism"

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  19. Aug 31

    Parenthood means I already have the pacifiers

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  20. Aug 31

    Never had much interest in attending a rave but I think I’ll be ready when this is all over

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