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Gen Z does not dream of labor

Vox

This buzzy phrase , popularized on social media in the pandemic, rejects work as a basis for identity, framing it instead as an act to pursue out of financial necessity. These age-based categorizations are usually reductive, and exclude key factors like education level, social class, race, and gender in their analyses.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

A proponent of Chaos Theory, trends researcher Bronwyn Williams makes unpredictable futures accessible to businesses that want to thrive amidst accelerating societal and technological change. In 2011, Williams brought her methodology for making sense of disorder and uncovering hidden patterns to Flux Trends. Twitter: @bronwynwilliams.

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Biden group launches TikTok account to boost the president’s agenda

The Verge

The Biden-affiliated nonprofit group Building Back Together plans to launch its own TikTok account on Wednesday as part of the group’s latest effort to engage young people with the president’s agenda ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

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Why unions are growing and shrinking at the same time

Vox

It’s not clear where this will all net out. Until then, we do know that a number of individual unions have been successfully bucking the trend in recent years by adding members. In recent years, Workers United, the parent of the Starbucks union, has been expanding into fast food as well as nonprofits and distribution companies.

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Mark Zuckerberg on why he doesn’t want to “put an Apple Watch on your face”

The Verge

Social networks contain multitudes. Facebook has sometimes faced doubts over why a social network would invest so much time and money into a hardware project with no uncertain payoff. It doesn’t fit the kind of social use cases that we primarily care about. Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge. Maybe someone else will make it.

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How to think about polarization on Facebook

The Verge

But you could also use it as an umbrella term to talk about initiatives related to what Facebook and other social networks have lately taken to calling “platform integrity” — removing hate speech, for example, or labeling misinformation. He threatened to shut down social media companies. He said “big action” would follow.

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