#Workers

Happy Payday! A brief thread about how arts workers are (or are not) valued. So. For the two weeks prior to this one (aka the last pay period), I was
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COVID-19 proved one of David Graeber's claims in his book 'Bullshit Jobs'. That is, the private sector has so many bullshit jobs (jobs which have minimal impact on real world
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Unleashing The Decentralised Workforce There are many ways to earn in 2020 - from labourers to playbourers, preachers to teachers, carers to sharers.Thread (1/9)#WorkforceFuturist #FutureOfWork https://workforcefuturist.substack.com/p/unlea
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I am over here ruminating on this - wondering what it might take to create a unified body of social service workers/providers to speak as such in coalition. When I
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The Canada Student Service Grant raises serious concerns w/respect to the exploitation & potential misclassification of students & recent graduates. It's deeply flawed & needs a complete overhaul. I shared
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1/15Today (the 1st of July) is the 99th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party in Shanghai. Here's a historical thread about the events leading up to the founding
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1/3 Reading US Presidential Candidate Senator Sanders’ platform on China and noticed he provided a citation for his claim China uses cheap child labour to undercut adult American workers. Followed
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Little thread:I often get asked about philanthropic communities of practice I find useful, and recommendations for awesome participatory grantmakers, so I thought I'd make a little public list. I'd welcome
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Here's the low-down on what's happening @UF (a thread). The @washingtonpost covered this yesterday. 1. UF increased in-person classes 600% this spring from fall, despite rising COVID cases. 2. Students
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1/7 Climate progress - why I'm celebrating news from the UK and DK today... a short thread 2/7 As an outspoken critic of aspirational #NetZero pledges, there are several big
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NEW INTERVIEW with a Domino's Franchisee Owner in SydneyDomino's use AI to front run your orders so they can deliver your pizza in under 15 minutes $DMP.AU $DPZhttps://inpractise.com/articles/dmp-franchisee?utm_source=twitter&ut
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"Emergency Citizens' Council" could be formed in Minneapolis, Portland to mirror, replace delegitimized city gov.; local boomer groups, Church groups, small biz assoc. could meet in set location, get support
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I thought I'd play with some #COVID19Vaccine numbers. For Ontario to vaccinate 75% of 18+ by 9/1, right now we'd need to do 251k first doses per week. Phase 1
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History lesson! For all but two years since 1989, Congress has consistently prohibited D.C. from using its locally raised funds to pay for abortion care for Medicaid recipients through a
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Noticing such a weird bunch of things happening - people complaining about flags who have flags on their bio or even twitter handle.Someone even said that all flags should be
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the fuck...?https://twitter.com/Lollardfish/status/1292500735041708037 Ok so I will observe exactly one thing: The reason I think so many people keep fixating on all these Awkward Relationships is, imo, bc *modern society has
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