Pluralistic: A taxonomy of corporate bullshit (27 Oct 2023)

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A taxonomy of corporate bullshit: The six lies they've always told.
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Pluralistic: Amazon's bestselling "bitter lemon" energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss (20 Oct 2023)

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Amazon's bestselling "bitter lemon" energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss: Amazon immediately spotted an undercover reporter but missed that the bestselling 'Release Energy' was its drivers' urine.
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Pluralistic: Stellantis wants to make scabbing woke; The Lost Cause prologue, Part V (11 Oct 2023)

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Stellantis wants to make scabbing woke: The real DEI was the collective bargaining unit we formed along the way.
The Lost Cause prologue, Part V: Fuck around, find out.
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Pluralistic: Union pensions are funding private equity attacks on workers (05 Oct 2023)

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Union pensions are funding private equity attacks on workers: When your pension fund comes for your job, your home, and your funeral.
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How the Writers Guild sunk AI’s ship

No one’s gonna buy enterprise AI licenses if they can’t fire their workers.

After a grinding, 148-day strike, the Writers Guild of America ran the table, conceding virtually nothing and winning virtually everything.

The most consequential outcome will be data on streaming viewership. For the studios, these numbers are state secrets, revealed on a need-to-know, burn-before-reading basis, even within the studios themselves.

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Pluralistic: Podcasting "How To Think About Scraping" (25 Sept 2023)

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Podcasting "How To Think About Scraping": How to preserve the benefits of web-scraping while targeting the real harms.
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Joe Biden is headed to a UAW picket-line in Detroit

“I want to do it, now make me do it.”

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Joe Biden will join striking workers on a UAW picket-line in Detroit on Tuesday.

No sitting president in US history has ever walked a picket line with strikers.

This is a big deal.

It’s great.

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Pluralistic: Down in the (link)dumps (23 Sept 2023)

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Down in the (link)dumps: A link sundae for a fall Saturday.
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Pluralistic: "Efficiency" left the Big Three vulnerable to smart UAW tactics (21 Sept 2023)

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"Efficiency" left the Big Three vulnerable to smart UAW tactics: A system without slack is easily disrupted.
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Pluralistic: Biden should support the UAW (18 Sept 2023)

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Biden should support the UAW: Get the Democratic Party's mind right.
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