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Up & Go, a NYC home cleaning platform has its app code controlled by workers. This could help with better labour conditions for the gig economy — wired.com

Even the Economist is starting to criticize the catastrophe that is blitzscaling. The new tech stars, like Uber, Lyft, and Slack are entering the stock market with extraordinary losses and no profits in sight. Their idea is to grow their revenue incessantly, with no regard for losses or profits, so as to capture considerable market share and impose higher prices. 

Yet another introduction to Bitcoin. This one is rich and discusses the political problems marring Bitcoin. Ironically, they were the problems inventor Satoshi Nakamoto sought to solve, with his peer-to-peer cash payment system. Donald MacKenzie for the London Review of Books.

An interesting and in-depth look at Chris Cox, Facebook's chief of Product for the last 13 years. He joined at 23, oversaw the News Feed, plays reggae and looks like a Hollywood actor — finance.yahoo.com

Diabetes, dementia, depression or cancer might be sparked by inflammation — constant, low-level, immune-system activation  — harvardmagazine.com

How Nintendo introduced the Gameboy, Pokémon and Tetris to the West — polygon.com

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