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1. Job security is dead, no more staying at the one company forever.

Michael Ellsberg • The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful

Today no one with a salary will stand up for colleagues like Lee Fang. Our brave truth-tellers make great shows of shaking fists at our parody president, but not one of them will talk honestly about the fear running through their own newsrooms.

Matt Taibbi • The American Press Is Destroying Itself - Reporting by Matt Taibbi

But we are working on it. We are a long way from the world in which all knowledge is equally accessible. Hopefully someday our patchwork of intentionally-inefficient libraries will turn into a free storehouse of humanity’s recorded knowledge and creativity. In the meantime, however, we need to focus on getting good and thoughtful material in as man... See more

Nathan Robinson • The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs

But all women should have free access to school, for as long as studying is a commodity we have to pay for, or a step in the “job hunt,” our relation to intellectual work cannot be a liberating experience.

Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

Freddie deBoer | Substack

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“The villain here is not necessarily the internet, or even the idea of social media,” she writes. “It is the invasive logic of commercial social media, and its financial incentive to keep us in a profitable state of anxiety, envy, and distraction.” The business model of platforms like this — which rely on advertising and clicks and “en

Jenny Odell • How to quit Facebook without quitting Facebook

If merit replaces capital as the gating item to reputation, Web 3 communities will thrive.

Substack • Issue #75: Hey...Do You Know Who I Am!?

In some respects, this is the holy grail of institutes of higher learning: earning more without actually accepting more (and losing their rarified luster). Over the past forty years, most universities seem to have solved this problem by radically increasing pricing — a move that both relies on and fortifies brand power.

Mario Gabriele • Harvard, a Media Company | The Generalist

Obviously Reich’s influence went way beyond just me. Alongside other authors such as Anthony Giddens[411] and Jeremy Rifkin[412], he was instrumental in crafting the message of a new generation of progressive leaders that the era of the steady, lifelong job was over. In a more global and unstable world, lifelong education was the new key to providi