technology
Why Facebook should be publicly owned
March 1, 2019Corporations are inherently selfish institutions, and Facebook is no exception. Its agenda is nothing more grand than the pursuit of money and users.
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Sprint-T-Mobile merger an attack on people of color and the poor
January 30, 2019Imagine you’re a teenager in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, doing your homework on your phone…and then you can’t, because your mobile phone carrier pulled out.
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Prison podcast sheds light on life behind bars
January 3, 2019The podcast “Ear Hustle”— eavesdropping, in prison slang—has found international success and secured freedom for one of its co-hosts.
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AT&T workers protest tech job outsourcing
December 4, 2018Jobs are being outsourced to contractors in the Philippines and India who pay workers $2-3 an hour, a tenth of union wages in the U.S.
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The Grindr controversy: Who owns your dating app?
December 3, 2018For too long, the LGBTQ movement has been given an undeserved pass as being inherently progressive. Harry Hay warned us about this until the day he died.
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