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(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 5, 2025 No, You Can't "Cite AI" like a Scholarly Source
Generative AI is not a stable reference, it is not a scholarly source, it is not an authority, and it is not accountable. For these reasons and more, "citing AI" as a source would be ruinous to scholarship.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 1, 2020 Uber Is OLD
Employment law has to be re-rewritten and brought up to date--and it's a slow, messy, and painful process. But Prop 22 will only hinder this progress by locking us into the mistakes of the past decade. Series: A Vote For Uber Is A Vote For Trump (6 Articles, 6596 views)
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 28, 2020 Prop 22 is Dirty Politics at its Worst
The scariest thing about Prop 22---worse even than the abuses it would inflict on Uber and Lyft drivers---is the dirty politics being used to promote it. If Prop 22 were to actually pass, the result could be a frightening new normal for California politics. Series: A Vote For Uber Is A Vote For Trump (6 Articles, 6596 views)
SHARE Thursday, October 22, 2020 Prop 22: Uber's Trumpian Tax Dodge
Uber and Lyft would like to thank all of you for subsidizing them with your tax dollars -- suckers! The second article in a series on how Prop 22 furthers a Trumpian agenda in California. Series: A Vote For Uber Is A Vote For Trump (6 Articles, 6596 views)
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 22, 2020 Of Plague, Publics, and the Porchetariat
A specter haunts the doorsteps of the First World's health-conscious shut-ins: the specter of the porchetariat.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 10, 2016 A Border Wall Across The Future
No matter how automation of the workplace will ultimately affect jobs, its most important role today is to serve as a border wall across the future, intimidating wokrers and preventing them from organizing.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 18, 2016 The "Sharing" Economy's Roots in California Corruption
A corrupt political culture in the Golden State may have set the stage for the unprecedented growth of Uber, AirBnB, and other "sharing economy" corporations.