The story of paid work in America has never been one of quiet progress or neutral markets. It is a story of strikes and solidarity, of children in factories, of bodies broken on the job and voices demanding to be heard. Every right that protects workers today, from the eight-hour day to collective bargaining, was…

For a decade we’ve been told the fix for inequality is more training. Learn to code. Learn to adapt. Learn to stay employable while the people running Amazon, Uber, and a thousand “future of work” startups quietly decide what employable even means. Upskilling isn’t equity. It’s a distraction. The institutions funding it, corporate foundations, venture…

EXCITING LAUNCH THIS WEEK! AI Salon Mastermind Practice Lab The Practice Lab is where AI Salon Mastermind subscribers will design their Daily Practice using AI with other remarkable people leveling up their game. I haven’t been this bullish on what we’re building since I first started the Salon with Leah Fasten in 2022! his THURSDAY,…

Courtesy of Cori Sandler Click on the link to play the video in whisk – https://labs.google/fx/tools/whisk/share/animate/5ethl4qes0000. Trying Whisk from labs.google. I used 2 images i created in my custom gpt called Zen Friend – a meditation GPT that provide guilded meditation and images upon request. I used 2 images and popped them in to whisk…

There is a fork in the road we do not talk about enough. As AI moves deeper into public life, it is starting to shape who becomes visible and who quietly disappears. Not because anyone intends harm, but because design choices often come from people who have never lived inside the pressure points their tools…

From Claire Jacobs (Dr. J) Woke up early and wrote a song inspired by a friend’s email. Happy Winter, y’all. https://suno.com/s/j8LggnortqvlDA4W

Election Day carries a strange quiet this year. A handful of municipalities are voting, most of the country is not, and yet the air still feels charged. Not with pageantry or celebration. With fatigue. With a nervous hum beneath everyday life. With the awareness that even when the ballot printers rest, democracy does not pause….

There is a strange new weight settling on our backs. Not the weight of work itself, but the weight of being seen as someone who deserves to work in the first place. Everywhere you look, visibility has turned into a job. You line up at digital gates, clicking boxes to prove you are not a…

We we round out the end of October’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we wanted to ensure instead of just tips about passwords or phishing scams, we talk about the real stakes: privacy as a civic right, not a software feature. In the world of constant data collection, protecting that right means confronting the systems and incentives…