David A. Banks
@davidabanks.online
Author of The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America. Delegate to the Troy Area Labor Council for UUP / AFT- Local 2190. Officer for Contingents, UUP Albany Chapter.
he came in with crypto stuff. That’s canon
November 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
he came in with crypto stuff. That’s canon
Not a real economy! Fake shit is everywhere! This is why you don’t get paid enough at your job! Your boss gave all your money to fake shit!!!!
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Not a real economy! Fake shit is everywhere! This is why you don’t get paid enough at your job! Your boss gave all your money to fake shit!!!!
Sometimes I just open up All That Is Solid Melts into Air and it always feels relevant. Here’s Berman on AI (as far as I’m concerned)
![Modern professionals, intellectuals and artists, insofar as they are members of the proletariat,
live only so long as they find work, and... fnd work only so long as their labor increases capital. These workers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market. (479]
Thus they can write books, paint pictures, discover physical or historical laws, save lives, only if someone with capital will pay them. But the pressures of bourgeois society are such that no one will pay them unless it pays to pay them-that is, unless their works somehow help to "increase capital." They must "sell themselves piecemeal" to an employer willing to exploit their brains for profit. They must scheme and hustle to present themselves in a maximally profitable light; they must compete (often brutally and unscrupulously) for the privilege of being bought, simply in order to go on with their work. Once the work is done they are, like all other workers, separated from the products of their labor. Their goods and services go on sale, and it is "the vicissitudes of compe-tition, the Auctuations of the market," rather than any intrinsic truth or beauty or value—or, for that matter, any lack of truth or beauty or value-that will determine their fate. Marx does not expect that great ideas and works will fall stillborn for want of a market: the modern bourgeoisie is remarkably resourcetul in wringing profit out of thought. What will happen instead is that creative processes and products will be used and transformed in ways that will dumfound or horrify their creators. But the creators will be powerless to resist, because they must sell their labor power in order to live.
Intellectuals occupy a peculiar position in the working class, one that generates special privileges, but also special ironies.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4ec4i7k7upvxutj23xjktt53/bafkreiarsryrijeqqcuu6jbgkw7khk47x6ehgugljxtrcofsjgmuhqd5bu@jpeg)
October 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Sometimes I just open up All That Is Solid Melts into Air and it always feels relevant. Here’s Berman on AI (as far as I’m concerned)
@murderxbryan.bsky.social I just wanted to make sure you knew about this:
September 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
@murderxbryan.bsky.social I just wanted to make sure you knew about this:
I actually second-guessed today's date while reading this. Seems like a half-assed April Fools' joke.
September 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I actually second-guessed today's date while reading this. Seems like a half-assed April Fools' joke.
Y2K styles are back!
September 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Y2K styles are back!
For example Flock should be nationalized for 62x8=$496,000 not $300 million.
September 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
For example Flock should be nationalized for 62x8=$496,000 not $300 million.
Dang remember when the US and Israel were the only nations to vote against the UN resolution to make food a human right!
August 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Dang remember when the US and Israel were the only nations to vote against the UN resolution to make food a human right!
The final slide deck, titled "The Great Trust: From a Demolished Iranian Proxy to a Prosperous Abrahamic Ally", has been shared with members of the current and former US administrations, according to people familiar with the project, along with other governments and stakeholders in the Middle East.
July 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The final slide deck, titled "The Great Trust: From a Demolished Iranian Proxy to a Prosperous Abrahamic Ally", has been shared with members of the current and former US administrations, according to people familiar with the project, along with other governments and stakeholders in the Middle East.
They'll sell your mom for an autograph
July 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
They'll sell your mom for an autograph
It’s crazy that a company can do this. They opened the charging network to everyone. These should be taken down
July 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
It’s crazy that a company can do this. They opened the charging network to everyone. These should be taken down
The fact that this comparison is being made at all is a huge shift in broad public opinion on Israel. (From FT)
June 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The fact that this comparison is being made at all is a huge shift in broad public opinion on Israel. (From FT)
Between the two, I’m pulling for Paperboy Love Prince
June 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Between the two, I’m pulling for Paperboy Love Prince
The NYT loves war so much. Look at this!
June 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The NYT loves war so much. Look at this!
Horrible thing to have happen. It chills my blood and the fact that there’s no legitimate alternative presented to the public in an organized fashion makes it all the worse. Also this is very fucking funny.
June 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Horrible thing to have happen. It chills my blood and the fact that there’s no legitimate alternative presented to the public in an organized fashion makes it all the worse. Also this is very fucking funny.
They had a title card and everything
June 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
They had a title card and everything
Military parade sponsored by Palantir. Official White House Feed.
June 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Military parade sponsored by Palantir. Official White House Feed.
China eliminated poverty in my lifetime
June 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
China eliminated poverty in my lifetime