Pluralistic: Insurance companies are making climate risk worse (28 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Tesla sues Sweden’s postal agency as union fight escalates
Tesla’s anti-union stance is colliding with the EU’s strong labor laws.
Tesla sues Sweden over strike-linked license plate blockade
Sparks fly as Elon's Musketeers sue for license plate liberation
Charlie Peters and the Odyssey of Neoliberalism
Today on TAP: The uses of small magazines in the battle of ideas
Opinion | Young Chinese Women Are Defying the Communist Party
Refusing to be pushed into traditional child-rearing roles, young women in China are quietly posing a challenge for its male-dominated government.
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records
A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.
Pluralistic: The real AI fight (27 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Are remote workers more productive? That’s the wrong question. - Stack Overflow
Why do companies hire people to be idle a lot of the time? | nicole@web
In the Pursuit of the Unattainable
The saga of a species that knows not its place.
Attention education
In The New York Times , three members of the Strother School of Radical Attention make a case for a new way of thinking about education (gi...
“Life is denied by lack of attention”
At Contrapuntalism , a great statement from Nadia Boulanger : “Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or try...
Opinion | Powerful Forces Are Fracking Our Attention. We Can Fight Back.
Attention education is the most powerful thing we can do for ourselves, for one another, for democracy.
Federal Data Shows, Again, That The Electrify Everything Push Means Higher Energy Costs
EIA Winter Fuels Report: heating with electricity will cost 77% more than heating with natural gas; NuScale SMR project gets cancelled
There is a productivity crisis in the workplace. Here’s how to solve it—without terrifying workers
Fear as a motivator is misguided and counter productive. In order to create a culture of trust, loyalty, and stability, forgo fear-driven leadership.
After Eating, Software Will Bite The World
Software is eating the world. … All of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works and can be widely delivered at global scale. … Software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries—without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees. … With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired. (
Choose: Cultural or Bayesian Morality
One of humanity’s key superpowers is our cultural plasticity: we change our species by each as kids copying the adults around us. Such humans can consistently be well aware that humans at other times and places are quite different, as long as we see each such cultural version as well-suited to its situation; we would each want to act and think like them in their situation.
I've Been To Over 20 Homeschool Conferences. The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me.
"I am 20 minutes into the presentation when a woman interrupts me. 'When are you going to talk about God in all of this?' she asks."
Opinion | Elon Musk’s silly lawsuit offers a glimpse into the Musk-MAGA alliance
Republicans are rallying behind the X owner’s challenge to Media Matters.
Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Ted Chiang (Published 2021)
The March 30 episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”
Everybody who was Anybody had Dr. Feelgood and his Speed Shots on Speed Dial
Everybody who was Anybody had Dr. Feelgood and his Speed Shots on Speed Dial - Editor's Picks - Messy Nessy Chic
Guns, Race, and Stats: The Three Deadliest Weapons in America
Why is the mainstream media peddling the gun lobby’s fake stats on Black gun ownership?
People over party is no longer the mantra of Washington politics
In just one generation, ticket-splitting has become increasingly rare in a state with a long history of independent voting.
An unholy alliance
I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!
I had a very nice time myself visiting my family and staying with my in-laws and getting together with old high school friends. Then after that like all good cosmopolitan liberals everywhere I sat down to read this delightful new essay by celebrated
How It's Calculated
How we calculate the state freedom index for each category.
Pluralistic: Thankful for class consciousness (24 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Commentary by Cory Doctorow: Don’t Be Evil
It’s tempting to think of the Great Enshittening – in which all the internet services we enjoyed and came to rely upon became suddenly and irreversibly terrible – as the result of moral decay. Tha…
For teen girls victimized by ‘deepfake’ nudes, there is little recourse
The FBI has warned that technology used to create pornographic deepfake photos and videos was improving and being used for harassment and sextortion.
'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing letter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture
An ex-Googler wrote a 1,500-word letter criticizing the firm and CEO Sundar Pichai's lack of "visionary leadership."
Pluralistic: The FTC has Big Pharma’s number (23 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow