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Therapists Went on a Hunger Strike

An investigation into healthcare workers striking over conditions and automation in mental-health care.

Why I recommend it: A reminder that automation debates land hardest on care work.

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Why I recommend it: Read this next to Cory Doctorow's original argument. Holding two competing explanations of platform decay makes you sharper when you evaluate the tools your career depends on.

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