by listening to uber/lyft drivers, @veenadubal's ethnographic work challenges many academic and popular ideas about the political economy of gig work. see e.g.: https://t.co/QgixfnXg2p
Issue 8: Bodies is coming! Today we're dropping the cover, by @xrw. Stay tuned for the table of contents and excerpts from the issue. And subscribe to receive Bodies when it lands in August: https://t.co/VjklhVVdoH
omg i'm in a cafe in san francisco and a man in his 60s is showing his octogenarian mother photos on his phone and saying, "he's a bear. he's a bear. he's not a bear." she says, "he's a bear." and the guy replies, "yer learning." #Pride
In 1986 the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was murdered. The killer has never been found. Did Andrei Tarkovsky do it? Has Stieg Larsson solved the case from beyond the grave? What have South African spies got to do with it? This story is insane https://t.co/gBdchc0zdM
Smartphones and the internet gave the Uighurs a sense of their own identity โ but now the Chinese state is using technology to strip them of it https://t.co/sOtsoLlQEU