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Pluralistic: Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR’s traffic (14 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)

Enshittification is the process by which a platform lures in and then captures end users (stage one), who serve as bait for business customers, who are also captured (stage two), whereupon the platform rug-pulls both groups and allocates all the value they generate and exchange to itself (stage three):...

The military conducted testing in their neighborhood during the Cold War. Now, these former residents are demanding answers - and restitution (www.cnn.com)

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Army sprayed chemicals around the Pruitt-Igoe housing development as part of secret Cold War-era testing. Chester Deanes, left, and Ben Phillips lived in the development and say the chemicals, which the Army maintains were nontoxic, have made people sick.

N.J. corrections official at center of corruption probe demoted after DUI arrest (newjerseymonitor.com)

State corrections officials have demoted and stopped paying a top Department of Corrections official who got arrested last week after police accused her of causing an August drunken driving crash in Ocean County that seriously injured an elderly woman....

Breakingviews - Jamie Dimon makes anxiety a feature not a bug (www.reuters.com)

In defiance of external ructions, JPMorgan reported a 22% yearly increase in earnings for the three months ended Sept. 30, including a 40% return on equity in its giant consumer bank. Its future is also rosy. Despite sharp rate hikes and softening household finances, the lender raised its interest-income forecast for 2023, while...

Amid international crises, US Congress handcuffed by Republican feud (www.reuters.com)

The House of Representatives has drifted leaderless for 12 days since eight of its 221 Republicans ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy. That has held up any legislative action, from debating further aid to Ukraine as it battles a Russian invasion to a statement of support for ally Israel in its war with Hamas....

A Message from Scholastic on U.S. Book Fairs | Scholastic Media Room (mediaroom.scholastic.com)

There is now enacted or pending legislation in more than 30 U.S. states prohibiting certain kinds of books from being in schools – mostly LGBTQIA+ titles and books that engage with the presence of racism in our country. Because Scholastic Book Fairs are invited into schools, where books can be purchased by kids on their own,...

X illegally fired worker over return to office protest, US labor agency says (www.cnn.com)

Elon Musk’s social media company, X (formerly known as Twitter), broke the law when it fired one of its employees for “exercising their right to protected concerted activity” following X’s return-to-office mandate, according to a complaint from the National Labor Relations Board....

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