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Reading:
Less than a week after Google hired an anti-union firm, it has fired four employees active in union organizing. Obviously, management claims this is unrelated. Obviously, it isn’t.
(Kate Conger and Daisuke Wakabayashi for The New York Times)
Striking Uber drivers in France have shut down or taken over the overwhelming majority of the company’s offices. French drivers are protesting terrible conditions and attempting to take power over their own lives and work.
(Edward Ongweso Jr for Motherboard)
P-hacking, explained. Researchers can manipulate results to create the kind of “statistically important” results that science journals crave, cheapening science in the process.
(Christie Aschwanden for Wired)
Listening:
Cyber: How Scary is Critical Infrastructure Hacking?
Selena Larson from Dragos, a cybersecurity company, discusses the threat of infrastructure hacking.
Conference Talk of the Week:
This talk is part of our “Favorite Talks” YouTube Playlist. Check it out and subscribe!
Collective Problem Solving in Music, Science, Art and Software
Jessica Kerr discusses how multidisciplinary problemsolving can work, starting with the history of the camerata.
Opportunities:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is hiring a development director.
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This newsletter compiled by Margaret Killjoy (@magpiekilljoy). Margaret is an author, activist, and musician based in Appalachia. Her most recent book series is the Danielle Cain novella series, which starts with The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion.
is uncredited and in the public domain.
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