ALT An Instagram post featuring a middle aged white man sipping tea in a bright orange tent and smiling at the camera, which reads "Have been hiding, working on healing, finishing a manuscript (out in 2026!), and loving up my platform camper. Slowly emerging from the cave."

ALT The cover of a book, Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind, by Kay Redfield Jamison. The cover is dark blue and features a picture of Notre Dam in flames.

ALT The cover of a book, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice, by Judith L. Herman. The cover features a mosaic of a crouching figure in red, dark blue, white, and black.

ALT Cover shot of Gerard A. Jacobs' book Community-Based Psychological First Aid: A Practical Guide to Helping Individuals and Communities during Difficult Times. Two trees shaped like human heads exchange leaves against a cloudy sky. Under the earth, roots hold hands.

ALT An email titled Automatic Reply: Test that reads, " Hello friends: Like many academic faculty members, I am employed on a ten-month contract. If you have reached me between June 15 and August 15, when I am not working for the university, it might take me some time to reply."

ALT An old grey brick that reads "Brunswick No. 1" sits on a forest floor.

ALT A small animal skull lies on the forest floor, hidden by green leaves.

ALT What appears to be a rusted oven door is suspended in a tree in dense green forest.

ALT A middle-aged white man in a black shirt and jeans gazes down at an unreadable gravestone he has uncovered in a forest.

ALT A wood-burning backpacking stove sits on brown and green leaf litter in a forest. A fire is crackling in the stove and a pot full of what appears to be spaghetti sauce sits nearby. The stove reads "Sierra."

ALT A screenshot from the manuscript editing tool, Scrivener. It reads: Current manuscript target: 39,171 of 70,000 words Session target: 847 of 905 words Little blue thermometers illustrate progress through the project.

ALT A Google map of the Hudson River Valley and upstate New York, with red pins noting the location of drive-in move theaters.

ALT Cover of children's book, Big Bear Was Not the Same by Joanna Rowland. The illustration, is pale greens and greys, shows a small black bear gently touching the shoulder of a large, frightened-lpoking brown bear.

ALT An automated short story dispenser from the Wichita Public Library. It reads: Select. Read. Enjoy.

ALT A poem printed out from an automated short story dispenser in the Wichita airport. It is "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson.

ALT A medical line illustration in sepia tones: An eye and tear ducts, A right ear with the internal apparatus of hearing displayed.

ALT A black sand beach gives way to aqua sea surrounding a striking black rock formation. Tiny surfers appear in the distance.

ALT A large enameled pot holds brightly colored green tomatoes, red onions, brown and yellow raisins, and apples in a hot and sweet vinegar bath.

ALT A black and white icon of a large hand holding what appears to be a small male figure by the scruff of the neck, like he is smelly. The big mean hand is apparently about to drop him.

ALT A black and white icon of a figure being kicked out a door by a disembodied foot. There is a "BANG!" symbol so you know it hurts.

ALT A black and white icon of a figure dropping through a whole in the floor while two other figures stand safely by, holding briefcases.

ALT A black and white icon of a male figure wearing a tie, sitting next to a briefcase with a despondent posture.

ALT A set of 25 black and white icons depicting unemployment in a grid. They appear to be all male figures, many suffering or grovelling -- kneeling on the ground, praying, panhandling -- and many of them carry briefcases. One icon, however, shows a figure lifting its hands to the sun.

ALT A graphic of the different stages of a benefits technology lifecycle. At bottom left, labeled "devising," a group of figures stand around a table having a discussion. To the right, labeled "contracting," a group of figures look at spreadsheets and use calculators. To the right, labeled "building," a group of figures creates code at a laptop. Above all three of those stages in the cycle is a large process called "operating," showing a group of figures standing in a line and receiving decisions (big red Xes of green check marks) about public benefits applications.

ALT A green box of text that reads: "Fight Austerity Policies: Expand your advocacy to collectively tackle the underlying social and political issues that fuel resource scarcity and lead to unequal access to benefits."

ALT A brass plaque on a granite rock near the sea reads, "Rachel Carson: Writer, Ecologist, Champion of the natural world, 1907-1964. 'But most of all I remember the Monarchs.' Here at last returned to the sea. 'To Oceanus, the ocean river, like the everflowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.'

ALT A large black and white cat sits in a wicker basket with a front paw outstretched. The cat is looking directly into the camera.

ALT A meme featuring Ron Swanson from the TV show Parks & Rec, wearing a shop apron in front of a band saw. The text reads "People who buy things are suckers."

ALT A screenshot of a webpage that says "Federal Student Aid -- Please wait, we are experiencing a high volume of visitors."

ALT A very tiny butterfly sits at the laces of a beige hiking shoe.

ALT A Karner Blue butterfly sits on a bright green leaf.

ALT A copy of the July 10 2022 New York Times magazine, open to the table of contents. Among the listed items: Virginia Eubanks' essay, "His Trauma, and Mine."

ALT Lucy from the Peanuts cartoons sits in a red cardboard sidewalk stand that is labeled: “Medical advice: The doctor is IN”

ALT A pencil drawing of a woman in a headscarf and an infant, laughing together. Text in blue reads: "Here We Thrive."

ALT A Tweet from Betteridge's Law reads: "Can Robots Save Nursing Homes? No."

ALT Colorful graphic of the "reactivity pyramid." The bottom half of the pyramid reads "worked up" in green letters, and the top half is split into three tiers of decreasing size: "activated" in yellow letters, "triggered" in red, and at the very top, in cloudy blue, "dissociated."

ALT A remainder notice from MIT Press telling the author that they will be "reducing inventory" on the book Digital Dead End starting March 31, 2022.

ALT An excel spreadsheet labeled "Seed List, 2022." On the left, a column labeled "Have," and a very long list of common vegetables. On the right, a column labeled "Want" and a shorter list of less-common veggies.

ALT Screenshot from Amazon that reads "Remote Caregiving with Alexa...Introducing Alexa Together." Picture features a cellphone that shows "Dad" and lists: "No activity -- Call or Drop In?"

ALT A 1960s-era portable reel to reel machine, with the brand name VALIANT prominently featured, sits on a salmon pink background. "Vintage Valiant 5 Transistor Portable Reel-To-Reel Tape Recorder, Made In Japan, Circa 1960s" by France1978 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

ALT The cover of Kate Washington's book: a piece of burnt white toast on a robins egg blue background and the title "Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America" in pink and white letters.

ALT The corner and part of the facade of a brick building are among the only structures remaining on a street decimated by fighting during the Spanish Civil War. “SPANISH CIVIL WAR – Part Five” by Cassowary Colorizations is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

ALT Two people in Frankenstein masks stand in front of an Iowa courthouse, holding signs that read "Stop the Madness."

ALT A picture of a very sassy black and white tuxedo cat in bed with a stuffed Pusheen

ALT A large pile of plaster casts of teeth in yellow, blue, tan, and pink are scattered near a street curb. "Discovery on a street in central Tehran" by blondinrikard is licensed under CC BY 2.0

ALT An illustration in a children's book showing two bears playing in a field of flowers. The larger bear has a look of fear on his face. The text reads, "Some days, Little Bear and Big Bear had good days that felt almost normal again. But one smell could change it all. SNIFF! Big Bear froze."

ALT A view of the upper falls at Letchworth State Park, a 70-foot waterfall tumbling over green and grey cliffs. "Letchworth State Park" by Heartlover1717 is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

ALT Notice reading: Hillbilly Nationalists: The Young Patriots and the Rainbow Coalition, sponsored by Hatmarket Books, Rampant, and Melville House. Friday, August 22, 2021, 8 PM EST.

ALT "All Our Brave Messes" and "Not a Number" are written in black on an otherwise blank whiteboard.

ALT A knife slices through a single red strawberry. "cut strawberry" by Muffet is licensed under CC BY 2.0

ALT A green card reading "Press card -- 1994. Floyd Levin is a West Coast Rag Staff writer entitled to full media courtesies. Pat Laughnan, Publisher." National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Lucille Levin.

ALT A bubbling pot of collards and black eyed peas.

ALT An African American man in a power wheelchair sits in front of a small grey house, looking out of the frame. Photograph: Rory Doyle/The Guardian.

ALT A white woman in a colorful shirt with a tablet computer stands with a white man with a white beard in a manual wheelchair on the porch of a log cabin. Photograph: Rory Doyle/The Guardian.

ALT An African American man's hands hold a smartphone running an EVV app. The app reads: "Alert! The Check-Out has been reported but has not been completed." Photograph: Rory Doyle/The Guardian

ALT The frieze on a cathedral in Scotland shows a priestly figure standing on a platform that rests on the back of a worker below. "Social hierarchy" by schoeband is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

ALT A page from an old French book, "Le Iconographie de la Salpêtrière," showing a plate of a young woman in a black dress with a high collar. half her face is scrunched up in what could be a tic or a wry smile. The caption reads, "Hémispasme facial hystérique." "File:Example of facial spasms, or hysterics Wellcome L0040302.jpg" is licensed under CC BY 4.0

ALT A screen shot of El Salto magazine, with a quote reading, "Virginia Eubanks: 'En la automatización de datos, las familias pobres y trabajadoras son como los canarios en la mina'”

ALT A black glass orb sits on the open pages of a book, casting a heart-shaped shadow.

ALT A very tiny figuring of the Grim Reaper stands on a grey background next to a black plastic hairbrush. "My Brush With Death" by JD Hancock is licensed under CC BY 2.0

ALT Book cover of Japanese translation of Virginia Eubanks' Automating Inequality. Grey mathematical lines on a white background with Japanese characters running down the right side.

ALT Inside page from the Japanese translation of Virginia Eubanks' Automating Inequality. White page filled with Japanese characters. In the middle a single English word in parantheses: casework.

ALT Message from Twitter that says "Unfortunately, the request to verify your account has been denied."

ALT A basket of blush pink roses sits next to a bowl of cherries on a blue tiled counter

ALT A portion of the CAPS-5 test for PTSD, with a question that reads, "In the past month, have you had strong negative beliefs about yourself, other people, or the world?"

ALT A black and white image of the Stone Cellars Inn in St Lawrence. "001516:Stone Cellers Inn St Lawrence Unknown 1879?" by Newcastle Libraries is marked with CC PDM 1.0

ALT The cover of Micaiah Johnson's debut science fiction novel, The Space Between Worlds. Two young women -- one Black and wearing fatigues, the other Asian and wearing an white elegant white suit, walk past each other on the vertical edges of the image.

ALT A wooden outhouse sits in the left corner of a desert scene with blue sky and sage brush. "The Outhouses of Bodie: II" by code poet is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

ALT Picture of a monument of Dali's melting clock; "Dali Clock" by CaptSpaulding is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

ALT The cover of the first edition of the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade, by Kurt Vonnegut.

ALT Stack of books about trauma and PTSD, including Slaughterhouse-Five, The Evid Hours, My Grandmother's Hands, Irritable Hearts, Regeneration, Trauma and Recovery, The Body Keeps the Score, and Heartberries, on a light blue tiled counter.

ALT Notice from Fedco Seeds website announcing that they are unable to take seed orders due to very high demand.

ALT A screen shot of the description of the book "Automatizando la desigualdad" in the catalogue for Capitan swing books.

ALT A small stack of books on a wooden table, including "Writing Life Stories," "Healing Sex," and "The Body Keeps the Score"

ALT Image of the directions for using Narcan nasal spray, a drug that reverses opioid overdoses.

ALT A banner that read "2020/2022 Common Read: Automating Inequality