5LL #164 - Israel, Etsy, Construction, Debt, Decentralization

The Global Garage
Will Meyer, The Baffler
Militarized frontiers get a tech-savvy makeover.
Home Spun
Tamara Kneese, Real Life
Etsy sellers, parent bloggers, and other practitioners of feminized platform labor are tech workers too.
Built Trades
Andrew Yamakawa Elrod, Phenomenal World
As greater shares of the American economy take on aspects of the construction industry, we would do well to consider its precocious example.
We’re Burying Our Kids in Debt (Just Not the Way You Think)
Eleni Schirmer, The New York Times
Debt-financing public education has not only failed to provide schools with sufficient funds; it has also imposed long-term costs.
From the Bottom to the Top: Mai Ishikawa Sutton on the Decentralized Web
Mai Ishikawa Sutton, Logic
Who do decentralization and distributed technologies currently benefit, and who should they benefit?
Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers
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