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@dfmanufracture.bsky.social
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I write about engineering and communism. designformanufracture.com

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ceej @ceej.online · 29/09/2026
Mr. President.... China, they.... it's bad. They just announced Ultra Intelligence
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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Communist imagination must balance a utopian and scientific tension, particularly for matters of technology and industry. @dfmanufracture.bsky.social discusses, among other topics, "The Black Box of Production" from Heatwave Issue 3 on Komintern Podcast (@kominternpodd.bsky.social) Links below!
Komintern podcast profile picture. It includes a bust of Karl Marx floating above a city, with the words Komintern (revolutionar pratradio)
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Kominternpodd @kominternpodd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And for any non-swedish readers of @dfmanufracture.bsky.social - episode out now! On utopianism, history, science fiction and production with writer and engineer Nick Chavez and Per Henriksson from the now defunct theoretical collective riff-faff.
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They're also almost always about women and queer people in left-leaning spaces, which says whom we reflexively think of as toxic or annoying. I guarantee some fantasy football league is falling apart over some petty asshole, but he doesn't become a symbol for the annoying left. He can just be Jeff.
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Nick @dfmanufracture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Translation: WARNING THIS MAN IS DANGEROUS! HE IS AN ENGINEER. HE HAS BEEN TAUGHT EVERYTHING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY. BUT NOTHING OF SOCIETY Therefore he pollutes. Therefore he builds enviroments hostile to humans. Therefore he produces weapons and poisons. (h/t comrade at @kominternpodd.bsky.social )
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Nick @dfmanufracture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Salient reading* with implications for the current Navier-Stokes situation. Longer read but worth it. davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...
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The fall of the theorem economy
How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it
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Nick @dfmanufracture.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This Schaxel translation (and the intro written by @damashummus.bsky.social ) absolutely rips. Absolute must-read essay on the mystification of "the individual" in the field of biology, a lesson with philosophical and political dimensions that remain more important than ever.
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Nick @dfmanufracture.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If this had come out a few years ago I would have tried to find a way to work "meat lettuce" into Forest and Factory www.sciencealert.com/a-key-meat-p...
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A Key Meat Protein Has Been Grown in Lettuce For The First Time
Eating meat is consistently shown to be one of the worst things we can do for the environment as consumers, due to the outsized negative impacts animal agriculture has on land, water and energy use, a...
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prada 丰 meinhof @prada-meinhof.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“Les auteurs assument [...] un pari. Soumettre la fiction utopique aux contraintes de la hard SF et de la théorie anti-utopique pourrait « attirer des gens vers le projet révolutionnaire »...” www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2026/05/26/l... @editionssanssoleil.bsky.social @dfmanufracture.bsky.social
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Fabrique et forêt. Science et fiction du communisme : Le communisme tangible - En attendant Nadeau
Phil A. Neel et Nick Chavez écrivent contre les imaginaires communistes qui contournent la production dans Fabrique et forêt. Science et fiction du communisme.
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prada 丰 meinhof @prada-meinhof.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
à propos de Fabrique et forêt. Science et fiction du communisme : “Le communisme ne peut donc pas être pensé comme un supplément moral appliqué à une infrastructure intacte ; il suppose une réappropriation simultanément sociale et technique des moyens de production existants.”
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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Read the Issue 3 editorial here: heatwavemag.info/magazine/iss...
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Editorial: On Communism, Drawing Lines, and Being Ecumenical | Heatwave
We attend to ecumenical practice not only because it is generative, but because difference is inevitable. Within fragmentation we must develop the capacity for cohesive communication and action.
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Ed @ed3d.net · 03/07/2026
this is a real problem for people who are programmers but don’t also do other things. do other things.
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Nick @dfmanufracture.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
New essay on technical expertise, its occlusion to the majority of the human species, and the contours of its appropriation in any future project of communist construction. Read it online now, or in print in @htwvmag.bsky.social Issue 3 (link in reply below)
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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Why does it feel so weird to talk about exercise and left politics? Want to get beyond the dichotomy of overly optimistic lifting for the rev and overly pessimistic rejection of all exercise as social domination?
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Dan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Great new essay from @dfmanufracture.bsky.social on revolution and expertise
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The Black Box of Production | Heatwave
The material world, made and re-made in the image of capital, looms large over humanity's future.
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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
How are things made? Who knows how to make them? How is this knowledge distributed? @DFManufracture demystifies the riddle of technical knowledge and its relevance to communist construction in "The Black Box of Production," available on our website ahead of Issue 3 heatwavemag.info/magazine/iss...
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Jamie Merchant @jamiemerchant.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
My review of Eswar Prasad's Doom Loop, a book that isn't very good but vividly shows how and why economists are thoroughly washed. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Are Economists Going the Way of the Dinosaur?
In Eswar S. Prasad’s The Doom Loop, he attempts to defend a profession that failed to foresee the crisis of the post-liberal world.
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harryposeur.bsky.social @harryposeur.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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Nick @dfmanufracture.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Just found out about Peter Damerow. This guy was cooking wtf
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Nick @dfmanufracture.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
New preface for Forest and Factory, titled "The Immortal Science," to inaugurate the French edition is available (in English) to read now. Links in replies. Special thanks to @editionssanssoleil.bsky.social for the translation and to my coauthor Phil Neel.
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Éditions Sans soleil @editionssanssoleil.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Disponible en librairie ! Fabrique et forêt. Phil A. Neel et Nick Chavez 128 pages 10 euros
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prada 丰 meinhof @prada-meinhof.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
le 7 mai en librairie @editionssanssoleil.bsky.social
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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles
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Nick @dfmanufracture.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Keep your eyes peeled for the upcoming "Every Acre Every Factory" documentary from LabournetTV featuring a series of interviews including of yours truly
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Doctorow has coined some widely-used concepts, but his arguments have always felt elusively shallow and anemic to me, and this really snaps the reason into focus: It's because they're always and entirely focused on the consumer.
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Jamie Merchant @jamiemerchant.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
this is absolutely right. i got flack for not going into climate policy in depth in Endgame, but we have a degenerate economic system that makes rational government all but impossible and in fact is destroying government as we knew it. the very idea of ‘rational policy’ is a non sequitur
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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Issue 2 is in the mail! Be on the lookout for your copy!
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Nick @dfmanufracture.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The new @endnotesjournal.bsky.social website looks fantastic. In particular I love the footnotes now appearing on the side of the screen. Reading on the site itself is better than ever. www.endnotes.org.uk
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Endnotes
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 09/12/2025
striking baristas 🤝 union drivers
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Nick @dfmanufracture.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Forthcoming F&F Français translation will feature bonus content (new foreword)
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
still no updates here
U.S. President Barack Obama revealed possible plans to privately perform "Gangnam Style" for his spouse Michelle Obama.[141][142][143][144]
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Running a low-latency platform for instant comms capable of carrying millions of concurrent audio/video calls requires a pre-built, planet-spanning network of compute, storage and edge presence that requires constant maintenance, significant electricity and persistent attention and monitoring. 4/
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Nick @dfmanufracture.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
It's like they're trying to turn her into a 21st century Lenin by the time she's middle aged. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
its funny to be ruled by internet-brained idiots like this, when anyone with a passing familiarity of this internet political moment knew instinctively this was going to be an incoherent brain rotted gamer white boy who sees politics and violence as entertainment
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Ill Will @illwill.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
A new essay by Phil Neel laying out the various levels and forms of revolutionary organization, the function limits of "sigils" and tactical leadership, and the two kinds of "invariance" in communist struggle. illwill.com/theory-of-th...
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prada 丰 meinhof @prada-meinhof.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Nuova pubblicazione Porfido Edizioni: | LA FORESTA & LA FABBRICA | Contributi ad una fantascienza del comunismo [2025, 128p.] Phil A. Neel & Nick Chavez @dfmanufracture.bsky.social via @endnotesjournal.bsky.social porfidotorino.it/2025/02/01/l...
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Nick @dfmanufracture.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Marx haters be like "Marx was very wrong because [something that Kautsky or Stalin said], it's obvious that actually [something Marx said extensively]"
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
now published: The Socialization Debate Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918 Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122 doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...
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Nick @dfmanufracture.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Wonder if any Chinese person has heard a Doechii song and gone "who is this rapper?" and when someone tells them they mishear it as 豆豉 (dòuchǐ), leaving them very impressed that the song was made by fermented soybeans
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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Want to be a cool cat and buy a copy of Issue 1? 🐱 You can snag a copy from haters cafe's webstore (link below). Also, subscribe to our Patreon and get Issue 2 when it launches.
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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
"In a sense, Mae Sot is an extension of that little sandbank, where the concept of 'nationality' is unsettled. It’s on the Thai side of the border, but it feels more like a Burmese city." -Wu Qin, in her dispatch on the Myanmar Civil War featured in Heatwave Issue 1
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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Maybe a closer look reveals that the cyclical and the secular are part of the same dysfunction. The crisis portended by new Gaga was always just underneath the surface.
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Nick @dfmanufracture.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I cannot stress enough how clever and fun this essay is
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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Read this piece and others in Heatwave Issue 1, out now. Subscribe to our Patreon to get it mailed to you, or grab it from your favorite lefty bookstore. A PDF of Issue 1 will be freely accessible on our website once Issue 2 is released. patreon.com/HeatwaveMag
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For a World on Fire
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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Two of our friends from Wollongong share their thoughts and experiences from the blockade of Bisalloy Steel. Through a clever set of tactics, picketers have disrupted over 100 operation hours at this veritable merchant of death supplying the IDF.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Lol, pretty much. From BBC—
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ILC Chicago @ilcofchi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Great piece by Chicago ILC member @jamiemerchant.bsky.social about Trump's tariffs and class war. Give it a read!
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