Remote work, two years later: who won and who lost
We examine which workers benefited, which were harmed, and what the data says about productivity claims on both sides.
The H-1B debate: data, politics, and the visa that built Silicon Valley
The H-1B programme is more contested than ever. We read the research and tried to find the facts underneath the rhetoric.
What tech workers actually want from their unions
After a wave of successful union drives at Apple, Amazon, and Google, we survey the contracts that were won.
Content moderation is the most important job in tech — and the worst
The people who review graphic violence and abuse online face conditions that courts have compared to trauma exposure.
The gig economy’s long reckoning with misclassification
After years of lobbying and litigation, the legal status of platform workers in the US remains unsettled.
The great tech layoff: what actually happened to all those engineers
Between 2022 and 2024, more than 400,000 technology workers were laid off. We tracked where they went.
The last human advantage
As AI systems exceed human performance across more cognitive tasks, the question of what remains distinctively human becomes less philosophical and more urgent.
On slowness, in an industry that worships speed
A meditation on the value of deliberate, unhurried work in a technology culture that treats latency as a moral failing.
The internet we wanted and the internet we got
A history of the web's broken promises — and an argument that some of them are still worth keeping.
Technology is not neutral — and it never was
The myth of technology neutrality has survived every counterexample. We examine why the framing persists and what it costs us.