A linkblog
The Nation: The Case for More Strikes – a short essay on how The Teamsters’ won a good contract with UPS and how other unions can win good deals for workers.
Pittsburgh laments The Incline’s descent – another news startup closes shop. This one had high-profile backers and money.
“I wept for Ken: why men have the most to gain from watching Barbie” – in The Guardian, a perspective on the Barbie movement which ties to our society’s broader challenges facing men.
Marty Baron on the crisis of local news, Part 1.
Switched at Birth, Two Canadians Discover Their Roots at 67 – Two Canadian men who were switched at birth to families of different ethnicities are now questioning who they really are and learning how racial heritage shapes identities.
The BBC launches its own Mastodon server – I’ll be watching this. I am considering doing something similar to share my content.
Mr Spock belting out showtunes? How Star Trek became a fizzy, frantic romp – I’m enjoying the latest season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. I was disengaged by the Treks that followed Deep Space Nine (I’m a huge DS9 fan). As I told a friend last week, they need to binge-watch all three seasons of Lower Decks, then binge SNW. The Lower Decks – SNW crossover was enjoyable and beautifully done.
The Guardian’s reviewer of this week’s Strange New Worlds episode summaries how this season’s experiments in story telling is worth watching.
BCE’s CEO calls for government assistance for struggling media sector – one of Canada’s most profitable oligopolies asks for more corporate welfare.
The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate – Tolls are becoming more outlandish, I’m seeing this in the replies to my tweets.
The Meritocracy created Trump – as someone who grew up in foster care and entered journalism, the stories I can tell of class discrimination. David Brooks op-ed is refreshingly self-reflective. The ruling class created the conditions for Trump. As the sociologist E. Digby Baltzell wrote decades ago, “History is a graveyard of classes which have preferred caste privileges to leadership.”