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Brian Merchant
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Writer, Blood in the Machine
Los Angeles
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movies online culture.Consumer tech video games tv
Right now, I don't cover anything that's not related to the product space.
Content
By Brian Merchant| Blood in the Machine@ I’m old enough to remember when Black Mirror first dropped, and the anthology sci-fi show was widely received as transgressive, even shocking. Here was a smart, often legitimately unsettling suite of dark modern Twilight Zone fables, all built around the ways new technologies might be used (typically by faceless corporations just off screen) to corrode our humanity. It was, in other words, a luddite show, at a time when “luddite” was still very much a pejorative.
Therapists went on a hunger strike to protest 'assembly line' conditions and the automation of mental healthcare
By Brian Merchant| Blood in the Machine@ Mental health professionals at the giant consortium Kaiser Permanente started a five-day hunger a strike in Los Angeles on Monday this week, an escalation of a broader strike that has ground on since October 2024. The workers are fighting for more time spent with patients and better pay, and against algorithmic triage and an assembly line-style of providing mental healthcare.
By Brian Merchant| Blood in the Machine@ I’m old enough to remember when Black Mirror first dropped, and the anthology sci-fi show was widely received as transgressive, even shocking. Here was a smart, often legitimately unsettling suite of dark modern Twilight Zone fables, all built around the ways new technologies might be used (typically by faceless corporations just off screen) to corrode our humanity. It was, in other words, a luddite show, at a time when “luddite” was still very much a pejorative.
Company Info
Blood in the Machine
Los Angeles, United States