Opposed to using AI for her software-engineering job, Erin Maus secured something of a miracle from her employer: a religious exemption. Maus, a Unitarian Universalist, said she proposed the special…
Your boss could be stealing tens of thousands of dollars straight out of your paycheck. Every year, an estimated 10-30% of employers rig the system by misclassifying their workers as…
Samsung recently reported profits exceeding $38.5 billion, driven by the global AI boom’s appetite for memory chips and semiconductors.
Oregon state employee arrested for attempted arson on government offices
Five unions in France have proposed a mass walkout in February in response to widespread cost-cutting and a return-to-office mandate.
BBC documentary presented by Professor Simon Schaffer, which charts the amazing and untold story of automata - extraordinary clockwork machines designed hundreds of years ago to mimic and recreate life.…
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It’s been roughly 30 years since the desktop computer revolutionized the way the graphic design industry works. For decades before that, it was the hands of industrious workers, and various…
Double podcast episode about the Golden Age of Piracy, with historian Marcus Rediker. The legendary pirates of this era weren’t just thieves—they were daring rebels challenging the very systems of…
Why they’re happening, why now, and what to do as a lowly little peasant with no power