Pluralistic: Farewell (for the moment) (30 May 2025)

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Farewell (for the moment): See you in mid-June!
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Pluralistic: AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers (27 May 2025)

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AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers: A reverse-centaur in the loop.
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Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025)

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The enshittification of tech jobs: Our last line of defense has fallen.
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Pluralistic: #RedForEd rides again in LA (29 Mar 2025)

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#RedForEd rides again in LA: Rest in power, Jane McAlevey.
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Pluralistic: The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers (13 Mar 2025)

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The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers: It's here, it's just not evenly distributed.
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Pluralistic: Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces (17 Feb 2025)

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Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces: The Gilded Age has entered the chat.
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Pluralistic: Dinkscrump Linkdump (08 Feb 2025)

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Dinkscrump Linkdump: A bushel of links before I leap into the void.
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Pluralistic: All bets are off (29 Jan 2025)

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All bets are off: Tearing up the rulebook doesn't end the games, it just gets rid of the rules.
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Pluralistic: Pinkslump linkdump (18 Jan 2025)

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Pinkslump linkdump: New year, new grab-bag.
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Pluralistic: Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app (17 Dec 2024)

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Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app: "Uber for nurses" is even worse than it sounds.
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