Pluralistic: How unions won a 30% raise for every fast food worker in California (14 Sept 2023)

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How unions won a 30% raise for every fast food worker in California: Hot labor summer was just for openers.
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Boy, gig companies sure hire disastrously sloppy lawyers: $100m flushed down the drain in Massachusetts.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Personnel are policy: The Dems may do something to materially improve voters' lives. Maybe.
Podcasting "Science fiction is a Luddite Literature": My last pre-op podcast.
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Ant, Uber, and the true nature of money: Money vs finance.
Scarfolk & Environs: "Road & Leisure Map for Uninvited Tourists."
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Pandemic shock doctrine vs internet freedom: Freedom House's 2020 report is grim reading.
What happened in Florida: Surrender, Bush v Gore style.
Prop 22 is a scam: Propping up a Ponzi with a Proposition.
How to spreadsheet: All the hard-won lessons in one convenient ruleset.
The Ministry of the Future: Eliot Peper interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.
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