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The Backlash From JT’s Beats by Dre X Mowalola Campaign Is Really Just Colorism at Its Finest
If you swapped out JT for Latto or Cardi B, there wouldn't be any 'controversy.'
Beats by Dre x Mowalola
13: The Only Right We Have
from "The Rats' Man's Lackey and the Forbidden Tinsel"
Pluralistic: “Efficiency” left the Big Three vulnerable to smart UAW tactics (21 Sept 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Want to join the American Climate Corps? Here's what we know so far.
Biden's program is expected to hire 20,000 young people in its first year.
Son, You’re Old Enough to Know the Truth, There is No Such Thing as the “Invisible Hand of the Market”
Son, you’re eight years old now, and you’ll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell yo...
Ode to the Rag-and-Bone Man
Ode to the Rag-and-Bone Man - Inspiration Vault - Messy Nessy Chic
Make America California
Whether under Newsom or another culturally-aligned friend to the tech elite, gentry progressivism seems destined to dominate the Democratic Party.
The Big Three’s Labor Shortages
The only way the UAW’s strategy of rejecting voluntary overtime can work is if Ford, GM, and Stellantis lack enough workers to make cars.
Pluralistic: Kashmir Hill’s “Your Face Belongs to Us” (20 Sept 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The proletarianization of tech workers – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Your Business Idea Needs a Strategic Plan—for Joy.
Here’s how to test your business idea without a ton of risk.
Here’s How to Actually Keep Kids and Teens Safe Online
Controversial policy proposals such as the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) are making headway across the country, but there are other ways to help protect young people in the digital world
Pluralistic: Biden should support the UAW (18 Sept 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Blood in the Machine - 99% Invisible
Brian Merchant is a tech reporter, and he’d been covering the industry for years when he started to notice a term that kept coming up. Especially when he wrote a story that was critical of tech, he’d be accused of being a “Luddite.” Like most people, Brian knew at least vaguely what the term “Luddite”
Pluralistic: How unions won a 30% raise for every fast food worker in California (14 Sept 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Greenwashing set Canada on fire (16 Sept 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Striking actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI
The actor told an audience in London that AI was a “burning issue” for actors.
A new tech rebellion is taking shape. What we can learn from the Luddites
Two centuries after the Luddites revolted against an unjust technological disruption, automation is still pushing workers to the edge.
Pluralistic: Greenwashing set Canada on fire (16 Sept 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Seattle’s Public Libraries Chart a New Strategic Direction - The Urbanist
At its core, the strategy is built on the idea that “the library makes a difference in people’s lives and in the greater community." All branches of the Seattle Public Library closed this past Tuesday for a city-wide staff meeting. The organization was brought together to review the system’s new Strategic Direction. SPL is engaged
Does Japan’s Economy Prove That Neoliberalism Lost?
Economists are rethinking East Asia’s “miracle” as the Washington Consensus falters.
In Search of Lost Time, by Tom Vanderbilt
The science of the perfect second
We Are Not Just Polarized. We Are Traumatized.
The pandemic. The mass shootings. Insurrection. Trump. We've been through so much. What if our entire national character is a trauma response?
Daddy, What’d Ya Leave Behind for Me?
How baby boomers did everything they could to leave behind a dystopia.
We Need Whole News | Doc Searls Weblog
“Most notorious” illegal shadow library sued by textbook publishers [Updated]
Previous efforts to unmask the people behind Libgen have failed.
AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company. They built software in under 7 minutes — for less than $1.
A recent study found that AI-bots could talk to each other, reflect, and identify software bugs.
Slouching Toward ‘Accept All Cookies’
When everything we do online is data to be harvested, resignation is easy. But there’s a better way to think about digital privacy.
Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine
Google accused DOJ of aiming to force people to use “inferior” search products.