Pluralistic: Thankful for class consciousness (24 Nov 2023)

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Thankful for class consciousness: Eggs, Teslas, airlines, turkeys, and the roof over your head.
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Pluralistic: Naomi Kritzer's "Liberty's Daughter" (21 November 2023)

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Naomi Kritzer's "Liberty's Daughter": The market authoritarianism of a seastead childhood.
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Pluralistic: Pinkdrunk Linkdump (18 Nov 2023)

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Pinkdrunk Linkdump: Your semi-regular weekend declaration of link bankruptcy.
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Pluralistic: The conservative movement is cracking up (14 Nov 2023)

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The conservative movement is cracking up: It's not just Trumpism – antitrust is an emerging fracture line.
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Pluralistic: A link-clump demands a linkdump (05 Nov 2023)

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A link-clump demands a linkdump: Fit the ninth.
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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.

A wrecked, listing, rusting tanker whose side is emblazoned with the menacing red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ In the foreground, a woman dressed in a natty 1930s skirt-suit holds a WGA picket sign that reads, ‘I asked ChatGPT to write a sign and it SUCKED.’” — Cryteria/CC BY 3.0 (modified)

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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