My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:
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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt @MCRockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
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You can't turn around these days without bumping into scary inflation talk, and with reason: asset bubbles, supply chain shocks and energy geopolitics are on their way to wiping out the wage gains eked out by low-waged workers during the pandemic's labor shortage. 1/
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The underlying message of this scare-talk is that we've been too generous with "essential workers," by allowing them to inch a little closer to a living wage, and now it's time to roll that back, for their own good. 3/
It's one (true) thing to say that American union membership is down - that's a quantifiable, objective proposition. It's another to say that American unions are weak - and contrariwise, that unions are getting stronger. That's a lot more abstract and harder to pin down. 1/
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But here's a concrete version of what it means for a union to be weak, and for it to be getting stronger: the Teamsters election, hereclutch of do-nothing, sellout lifers were ousted from their cushy offices by militant challengers who made specific, meaningful promises. 3/
Harvard is a very, very selective school. Only 3.43% of applicants get in. But that's not the whole story. Writing in @TheGuardian, Tayo Bero says that 43% of the white student body was admitted on criteria other than merit.
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Those 43% are ALDCs: athletes, legacies, dean's interest list (children of major donors) or children (of Harvard faculty). Three quarters of ALDCs do not have the grades to be admitted to Harvard on their own merit. 3/