Uber's Bastards
While algorithmically-mediated gig nursing platforms for medical facilities are a novel development, Wells and Splinda’s map out in this section how the use of third-party staffing entities is not novel in the industry. Until the 1950s, in fact, most nurses working at hospitals did it through women-run private-duty registries that organized collective agreements for nurse employment and allowed for pay, schedule, and working condition negotiation. Once hospitals began to hire and manage staff nurses from their own pools, the registry system (and its working conditions) quickly met its demise. Hospitals would also go on to intervene in policy debates, distracting from quality-of-workplace issues raised by nurses to instead push for the government to expand nursing education.
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Things AI will never understand
Will A.I. Eat The Browser?
with the rise of generative AI, we are starting to see atomization of web pages themselves. This in itself undermines the original premise of the web and how it has been built thus far. If there are no documents to connect, how does the browser do what it has done so far?
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