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15 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Just realized I’ve been eating and cooking w duck eggs not chicken eggs for weeks
Is there any difference? Probably not!
My “I didn’t realize they were duck eggs for weeks” tweet is raising a lot of questions answred by my “I didn’t realize they were duck eggs for weeks” tweet
If you think this is ridiculous, I want you to understand I found out cause when I was putting them back I saw in big white letters on the side DUCK EGGS

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14 Jun
After spending a few years wading through all sorts of bullshit concerning the "gig economy," I've put together a glossary of sorts: a guide aimed at translating key buzzwords, phrases, and ideas regularly deployed to legitimize and normalize gig work. vice.com/en/article/pkb…
The inspiration for this was @_KarenHao's great glossary that decoded how Big Tech talked about AI ethics. There's a lot of propaganda we carry around because gig firms were so successful in their first decade of PR, but step by step we can purge it all! technologyreview.com/2021/04/13/102…
Over the next year hoping to report more on aspects of the “gig economy” that don’t seem to be considered much outside of the academy/law but are incredibly important like antitrust Qs raised by @Econ_Marshall & @sanjuktampaul or the racial politics mapped out by @veenadubal
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8 May
Apartheid is bad except in the United States and Israel, where it’s actually incredibly complex, nuanced, and is not simply rooted in the fact they are incredibly racist settler colony societies
lol stfu
god I hate it when the right opens their mouth to talk about Palestine what a stupid fucking caveat
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25 Apr
This is worse than the French body that decides what words will enter their language and in what form
Incredibly low-energy. Most words are fake until they’re not, imagine getting mad about this
There is a very rich debate about translation in all sorts of disciplines featuring all sorts of arguments concerning what it is, what it isn’t, what you’re ethically allowed to do, etc. This is somehow the least interesting version of the worst ones.
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10 Feb
The international reporting on the gig economy is really just some of the best. Almost impossible for any trace of homegrown PR narratives to thrive for a second when confronted with the even greater exploitation that typifies how Uber (Grab, Didi, etc.) operate anywhere else.
In the past month, here is just a taste: we’ve got this pretty fascinating dive into China’s grocery delivery wars restofworld.org/2021/chinas-gr…
We’ve got this close up look at how workers on the ground would be affected by gig economy consolidation w some juxtaposition to how unconcerned and far removed from reality the investor capital is restofworld.org/2021/grab-goje…
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2 Feb
Jeff Bezos taught me it's okay to support ICE. He taught me it's okay to steal at least $67.1 million in tips from your drivers. Jeff Bezos taught me it's okay to spy on your workers with the Pinkertons. He taught me it's okay to create hellish working conditions & fight unions.
Jeff Bezos taught me it's okay to refuse to end oil and gas exploration contracts. He taught me it's okay to create surveillance technology and embed it in every part of your home. Jeff Bezos taught me it's okay to create racist facial recognition technology.
Jeff Bezos taught me that when you're being accused of hoarding wealth, poisoning humanity's ecological niche, stealing from competitors, breaking your workers' bodies, proliferating surveillance technology, and undermining democracy, the solution is to simply insist you aren't.
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31 Dec 20
This was my first full year reporting and I got to do a lot of stuff so here's a thread resharing some stuff I wrote that I liked the most or thought was important or enjoyed
I did a deep-dive into Uber & Lyft's quota system in NYC, which was a clever & immoral system to fire thousands of drivers in response to new wage laws increasing driver pay. Uber suspended the quota system hours after this was published.

vice.com/en/article/pke…
I was really happy with this explainer I did on defunding and abolishing the police that also incorporated criticisms of reformist initiatives like 8 Can't Wait. vice.com/en/article/ep4…
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