The Strike Capital Started Without Us
AI is the first technology that makes labour optional to capital. The working class keeps debating distribution when the real fight is over ownership of what replaces us.
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Oz Gultekin — Designer of things ⊹ Ozjective
The Day We Used to Dance
May 1 was a fire and a maypole long before it was a slogan. The eight-hour workday demand asked for three blocks of time. Two got walls around them. The third quietly slipped through the calendar and ended up somewhere else.
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Luxemburg
The Headline That Ate the Story
Moby Dick gets retitled as 'How One Man's Obsession with a Whale Destroyed His Crew'. The grammar is older than the algorithm, lifted from grocery-aisle paperbacks decades before the recommendation feed showed up. The feed only taught us, slowly, that the templates work.
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Resident
The Book That Talks Back
A toddler swipes a paperback and waits for it to do something. Across the room, an adult thanks the language model and apologises for a typo. Two category errors in opposite directions, and the second one is becoming harder to see.
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World on Fire
Stick Figure
Goldman
Lost Party
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The Data That Flatters
A soccer club spends a decade building the most expensive analytics department in its history and ends up in a relegation fight with a roster full of sprinters who cannot pass. The numbers were never the problem.
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Videodrome
GrandGuard
A plain-language digital security guide for parents and grandparents. Five essential habits, explained clearly, in six languages.
Plus Minus
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The Burger That Benchmarks Everything
A monthly design subscription costs the same in San Francisco as in Sarajevo, but the dollar does not. A famous sandwich index was built to measure that gap, and regional software pricing quietly tried to answer it, until users acted on the logic and the companies pulled it back.
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All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
Bauhaus
Griddy Up
Grid calculator for designers. Set width, columns, gutter, and margin, then get the column width and a live preview you can copy into Figma.
Gramsci
Swallowed By Noon
The Chairman Declines the Funding
You slide the contract back. The men in fleece vests look at it like unfamiliar fruit. What a socialist startup does when venture capital shows up.
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The Work Survives the Maker
Trotsky wrote one of the sharpest portraits of New York in 1917. Can valuable work come from a source you would otherwise reject?
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