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Google fires four workers associated with labor organizing, Amazon's ruthless quotas lead to high rates of warehouse injuries, grass-roots opponents to Amazon's power form a coalition, a report cites the public cost of Amazon warehouses on Southern California, the California DMV is selling driver information, the Rev transcription service exposes contractors to horrific recordings, Facebook pays people to take surveys, Zuckerberg mostly listens to old white men, a TikTok teen spreads the news about Chinese mistreatment of Muslim Uyghurs, and Texas Instruments keeps toting up new profits from an old calculator style.

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    • Google fires four workers, including one tied to protests (Bloomberg)
    • Ruthless Quotas at Amazon Are Maiming Employees (the Atlantic)
    • Amazon's Own Numbers Reveal Staggering Injury Rates at Staten Island Warehouse (Gizmodo)
    • Grass-roots activists on Amazon's power coalesce (New York Times)
    • Amazon costs Southern California big time in public assistance for its workers, environmental and transportation impact (Economic Roundtable)
    • California DMV makes $50 million a year selling personal information (Vice)
    • Rev Transcribers Hate the Low Pay, But the Disturbing Recordings Are Even Worse (The Verge)
    • Facebook pays people to take surveys (Engadget)
    • Zuck talks to old white men (Bloomberg)
    • TikTok suspended a teen who posted a viral takedown of China disguised as a makeup tutorial (Business Insider)
    • The Texas Instruments Chained-Calculation Massacre (Medium's GEN)


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