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Quote of the Day
As long as hierarchy persists, as long as dominations organises humanity around a system of elites, the projects of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction.
Murray Bookchin, Toward an Ecological Society (1980)
Readings
Vox Media to Cut 200 Freelancers, Citing California Gig-Worker Law | Marc Tracy and Kevin Draper report on some of the fallout from AB5 in California, which is leading media companies to drop freelance writers who live in the state:
On Monday, Vox Media announced that it would eliminate the 200 freelance positions at its sports outlet, SB Nation, to comply with the legislation.
The affected writers are frequent contributors to the 25 SB Nation blogs focused on California teams. The team-centric sites include Golden State of Mind, for the N.B.A.’s Warriors; Conquest Chronicles, for the University of Southern California sports; and True Blue LA, which covers baseball’s Dodgers. Many of the SB Nation writers contributed…
