Pluralistic: Worker misclassification is a competition issue (02 Feb 2024)

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Worker misclassification is a competition issue: Corrupt employers created a market for lemons.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: 02 May 2022

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Podcasting "Revenge Of the Chickenized Reverse Centaurs": The relationship between algorithms, interoperability and worker power.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017
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Pluralistic: 10 Jan 2022

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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.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 07 Aug 2021

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Doordash privacywashes its war on workers: Tech rights are workers' rights.
End bankruptcy shopping: No more Sacklers, ever.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 27 May 2021

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Workers want real jobs: Bosses want contract, temp and gig workers.
Canadians! #NoSiteBlocking: You have until May 31 to send comments against Bill C-10.
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Pluralistic: 22 Jan 2021

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Launching a print edition of HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: Join me and Damon Beres next Thursday.
EFF's transition memo for the Biden admin: A full slate of tech policy one-pagers.
How one of America's most abusive employers gets away with it: "The Arise lawyers 'politely disagreed' with the Department of Labor's findings."
This day in history: 2006, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 05 Jan 2021

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My Fellow Americans: Audio, text and commentary for every president's inaugural address.
Digital manorialism vs neofeudalism: Tech companies as warlords with walled gardens.
South Carolina GOP moots modest improvements to "magistrate judges": Lewis Carroll was an optimist.
Pavilions replacing union workers with "gig workers": Prop 22's other shoe drops.
This day in history: 2006, 2016
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