Pluralistic: Tech workers and gig workers need each other (13 Jan 2024)

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Tech workers and gig workers need each other: Each disenshittifies the other.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023
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Pluralistic: Hollywood is the single best example of mature labor power in America; On the Media on the enshittification (pt 1) (06 May 2023)

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Hollywood is the single best example of mature labor power in America: Unions don't just improve wages, they create stable careers.
On the Media on the enshittification (pt 1): The power of a great interlocutor.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013
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Pluralistic: How tech changed global labor struggles for better and worse (02 Dec 2022)

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How tech changed global labor struggles for better and worse: Seize the means of computation!
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2007, 2017, 2021.
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Pluralistic: 06 Jun 2022

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Podcasting "Against Cozy Catastrophes": My Medium column about the failure of market-based pensions.
MBAs and wage stagnation: Going to business school makes you a dick.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017
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Pluralistic: 25 Nov 2021

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Unions are finally fighting two-tier contracts: How the actual fuck did they fail to see through this bullshit decades ago?
McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge: Leaked slides document the lies, sleaze and profiteering.
This day in history: 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 24 Nov 2021

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Spaniards fight Wall Street landlords: When margins and misery are correlated.
The Tesla-financial complex: When your financial instruments are better than your cars.
This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 22 Sep 2021

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Gig workers around the globe: One disease, many pathologies.
Mutual Aid and David Graeber: A new, illustrated edition of Kropotkin's masterpiece, with an introduction from the great, much-missed hero of Occupy.
Facebook algorithm boosts pro-Facebook news: Orwell was an optimist.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 10 Jul 2021

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Biden's Right to Repair will include electronics, too: Part of a broad antimonopoly agenda.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 07 Apr 2021

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Leaked NYPD "goon squad" manual: The NYPD isn't "undertrained" – the cruelty is the point.
Door Dashers organize app-defeating solidarity: The #DeclineNow movement vs Tony's Casino.
This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 16 Mar 2021

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SMS security is flaming garbage: Netnumber is a perfect microcosm of telephonic uselessness.
The People's Parity Project: An antidote to corporate law.
Meet the new music boss, same as the old music boss: Monopsony begets monoposony.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2020
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