Matthew Cole
@mattcole.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Technology, Work and Employment at the University of Sussex.
Heterodox Marxist - Les dés sont pipés!
mattcole.work
Heterodox Marxist - Les dés sont pipés!
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Couldn’t have said it better myself. This is a key argument of my book coming out May 2026 with @versobooks.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Couldn’t have said it better myself. This is a key argument of my book coming out May 2026 with @versobooks.bsky.social
Anyone who cares at all about ensuring future generations know how to think on their own, how to reason and develop their cognitive abilities, should be absolutely opposed to allowing generative AI for any kind of writing. It should be banned in all schools.
www.media.mit.edu/publications...
www.media.mit.edu/publications...
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Anyone who cares at all about ensuring future generations know how to think on their own, how to reason and develop their cognitive abilities, should be absolutely opposed to allowing generative AI for any kind of writing. It should be banned in all schools.
www.media.mit.edu/publications...
www.media.mit.edu/publications...
Time to make the billionaires scream
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Time to make the billionaires scream
Absolutely fucked that I now have to consent to an AI scanning my data to improve Wiley’s systems in order to publish in a top journal.
As if they don’t profit enough from hosting my intellectual property. My data is now a training pipeline.
As if they don’t profit enough from hosting my intellectual property. My data is now a training pipeline.
November 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Absolutely fucked that I now have to consent to an AI scanning my data to improve Wiley’s systems in order to publish in a top journal.
As if they don’t profit enough from hosting my intellectual property. My data is now a training pipeline.
As if they don’t profit enough from hosting my intellectual property. My data is now a training pipeline.
My first book, *Unpaid: the Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft*, will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social in May, 2026!
This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system.
UK pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/unpaid/...
This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system.
UK pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/unpaid/...
October 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My first book, *Unpaid: the Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft*, will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social in May, 2026!
This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system.
UK pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/unpaid/...
This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system.
UK pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/unpaid/...
As spectre is haunting Denmark, the spectre of @brosef-stalin.bsky.social
(keynote at the @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social conference)
(keynote at the @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social conference)
October 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
As spectre is haunting Denmark, the spectre of @brosef-stalin.bsky.social
(keynote at the @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social conference)
(keynote at the @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social conference)
UK higher education is in a risky position.
In 2023-24, 732,285 students, or 23% of the total student population, were from overseas. Russell group unis take an increasing share of students.
With a lack of endowments and lack of government support, the sector could collapse.
on.ft.com/3KbSguB
In 2023-24, 732,285 students, or 23% of the total student population, were from overseas. Russell group unis take an increasing share of students.
With a lack of endowments and lack of government support, the sector could collapse.
on.ft.com/3KbSguB
September 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
UK higher education is in a risky position.
In 2023-24, 732,285 students, or 23% of the total student population, were from overseas. Russell group unis take an increasing share of students.
With a lack of endowments and lack of government support, the sector could collapse.
on.ft.com/3KbSguB
In 2023-24, 732,285 students, or 23% of the total student population, were from overseas. Russell group unis take an increasing share of students.
With a lack of endowments and lack of government support, the sector could collapse.
on.ft.com/3KbSguB
Fighting for humanity means fighting to destroy the Labour Party right now.
July 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Fighting for humanity means fighting to destroy the Labour Party right now.
Fuck ‘growth’.
The expropriation of wealth is the only democratic economic position.
globalinequality.org/global-incom...
The expropriation of wealth is the only democratic economic position.
globalinequality.org/global-incom...
June 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Fuck ‘growth’.
The expropriation of wealth is the only democratic economic position.
globalinequality.org/global-incom...
The expropriation of wealth is the only democratic economic position.
globalinequality.org/global-incom...
The absolute brazenness of it all.
June 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The absolute brazenness of it all.
June 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Justifying my reasoning isn’t the same as doubling down. I have direct experience and know London very well. Maybe I’m wrong. Feel free to share data that backs up the OP. But I can’t continue discussing as the FT guy threw a tantrum and blocked me.
May 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Justifying my reasoning isn’t the same as doubling down. I have direct experience and know London very well. Maybe I’m wrong. Feel free to share data that backs up the OP. But I can’t continue discussing as the FT guy threw a tantrum and blocked me.
“Illegal Ideas”
I feel like this goes beyond ‘saying the quiet part out loud’.
A friend recently cancelled a trip because on apply for his tourist visa, the US asked him for all his social media handles.
I feel like this goes beyond ‘saying the quiet part out loud’.
A friend recently cancelled a trip because on apply for his tourist visa, the US asked him for all his social media handles.
April 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“Illegal Ideas”
I feel like this goes beyond ‘saying the quiet part out loud’.
A friend recently cancelled a trip because on apply for his tourist visa, the US asked him for all his social media handles.
I feel like this goes beyond ‘saying the quiet part out loud’.
A friend recently cancelled a trip because on apply for his tourist visa, the US asked him for all his social media handles.
The global order was just hit by an IED but corporate profits have never been higher.
They are laughing at us.
They are laughing at us.
April 9, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The global order was just hit by an IED but corporate profits have never been higher.
They are laughing at us.
They are laughing at us.
Keynes optimism in ‘Economic possibilities for our grandchildren’ (1933) always makes me mourn the future that could have been.
March 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Keynes optimism in ‘Economic possibilities for our grandchildren’ (1933) always makes me mourn the future that could have been.
In a somewhat disconcerting case of, ‘every accusation is a confession’ , I learned today that Germany’s fifth largest export is ‘human or animal blood’.
March 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
In a somewhat disconcerting case of, ‘every accusation is a confession’ , I learned today that Germany’s fifth largest export is ‘human or animal blood’.
Musk wants a world where eugenicist pseudoscience thrives alongside conspiracy theories so that apartheid, late-fascist and Nazi-inspired regimes are the superpowers of the “West”.
They’ve won in the US and Europe is next.
They’ve won in the US and Europe is next.
February 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Musk wants a world where eugenicist pseudoscience thrives alongside conspiracy theories so that apartheid, late-fascist and Nazi-inspired regimes are the superpowers of the “West”.
They’ve won in the US and Europe is next.
They’ve won in the US and Europe is next.
RIP to the legendary sociologist and comrade, Michael Burawoy.
February 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
RIP to the legendary sociologist and comrade, Michael Burawoy.
Here we fucking go…
January 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Here we fucking go…
Starmer’s AI policy rolls out the red carpet for MAGA manifest destiny.
January 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Starmer’s AI policy rolls out the red carpet for MAGA manifest destiny.
What fresh hell is this?
January 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
What fresh hell is this?