How Financialization and the “New Economy” Hurt Science and Engineering Grads
How the “new economy” devalued science and engineering degrees.
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VA Hospital Forcing Patients to Use Facebook and Twitter
So why is the VA promoting Rule by Facebook?
Read more...Uber Under Federal Criminal Investigation for “Greyball” Software
Uber is in hot water and has hired a big name white shoe firm, Shearman & Sterling, to conduct an internal investigation.
Read more...Organizing Against the Gig Economy: Lessons from Latin America?
New strategies of organization and workers’ control in Latin America suggest ways to combat the insecurity of the gig economy.
Read more...The Trump Administration’s FCC Tries to Roll Back Net Neutrality
How the Obama Administration established net neutrality, why the Trump administration wants to roll it back, and what you can do.
Read more...Do We Understand the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Employment?
Artificial intelligence is already transforming the world of work, but the future is hard to predict. Some see most jobs at risk of automatisation, while others argue robots will only take on a narrow range of tasks in the coming decades. Nevertheless, we need a broad debate to prepare the appropriate economic policy response to the new industrial revolution.
Read more...Former Workers at Elon Musk’s SolarCity Allege Employment Abuses, Improper Installations
Over 2000 former SolarCity workers allege labor violations, like denying overtime pay and bathroom breaks, as well as shoddy installations.
Read more...The Automation Grift: From Flying Cars to Ordering Cat Food on the Internet – Part 2
Why claims for automation getting rid of workers are greatly exaggerated.
Read more...Fintech Puts Payday Lending Old Wine in New Bottles
“Fintech” provider Lyric Financial is out to take advantage of financially unsophisticated musicians. Hipness is part of the ruse.
Read more...Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Medication Errors in Hospitals Don’t Disappear with New Technology.” Government: “It’s the Doctors’ Fault.”
Cybernetic supremacy vs. cybernetic sobriety in hospitals.
Read more...Why You Can’t Have a Shorter Workweek
A recap of the numerous, internally inconsistent arguments as to why workers can’t have a shorter workweek.
Read more...It’s Not the Gig Economy, Stupid
Why the decline in labor unions has had a bigger impact on the fallen state of wage workers than the much ballyhooed gig economy.
Read more...Business Press Waking Up to Bank Legacy IT Risk
Reuters discusses the challenge of moving off legacy systems. While the piece is a long overdue, it still seems more than a tad optimistic.
Read more...What is Artificial Intelligence?
A useful overview of artificial intelligence.
Read more...The Clean Carbon Bad Joke
How viable are “cleaner” coal technologies? And can carbon sequestration save the day?
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