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Why We Need Pirates

Paul Buhle, Marcus Rediker, David Lester Yes! Magazine
Exploited sailors escaped to form egalitarian outlaw societies under the Jolly Roger.

The Netflix Hit “RRR” Is a Political Screed, an Action Bonanza, and an Exhilarating Musical

Richard Brody The New Yorker
“RRR” -“Rise Roar Revolt”- turns history into legend by way of heightened visual rhetoric. It’s based very loosely on the real-life stories of two Indian revolutionaries of the early twentieth century, Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem, who joined forces and contested the oppression of British colonial power. The film is currently streaming on Netflix and will be theatrically released again in March 2023. The Oscar-Nominated Song "Naatu Naatu" from "RRR" will be performed at the Academy Awards.

Flexible Work Without Exploitation

Jennifer Sherer and Margaret Poydock Economic Policy Institute
Reversing tech companies’ state-by-state agenda to unravel workers’ rights and misclassify workers as ‘contractors’ in the gig economy and beyond.

Is Fear of AI Really Fear of Capitalism?

Ezra Klein The New York Times
Somehow, society is going to have to figure out what it’s comfortable having A.I. doing, and what A.I. should not be permitted to try, before it is too late to make those decisions.

How Product Placement Gets Wine Bottles Into Shows

Esther Mobley San Francisco Chronicle
The appearance of a wine bottle in television and film is almost never an accident; it’s a carefully brokered deal between the wine brand and the production’s prop master.