Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of the very great Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association, Magsaysay Awardee, and Gandhian. A rare gem and a hero.

The second verified account is actually @/appletvpius - they just capitalised the i. This is going swimmingly.

Really fascinating research!

"Do you not see there's a problem?" "There's an algorithm here tracking a human worker." Labour MP Darren Jones absolutely slates Amazon's European head of public policy over their dystopian surveillance of workers.

This sounds like the culture at a startup where employees will get a lot of the eventual upside. Not a well established tech behemoth with salaried workers, many of them employed outside of the tech bubble that is the Bay Area with lives & responsibilities outside of work!

A brief tour through 2000 years of megadrought. newscientist.com/article/234739…

This is one of the 🤯🤯🤯 experiments we ran on the Duolingo Retention team :

How many of our cautionary #BlackFriday traps can you spot? (And how many can you avoid?).

Fully loaded chilli for Monday night dinner now that the temperatures have (finally) dropped instagram.com/p/ClSDU0VIE-RS…

Using the crockpot today? Read this Tom essay while you wait for dinner to cook! 🍲🍴 longreads.com/2022/11/17/lif…

I started my newsletter Get Down and Shruti to write about Indian political economy and culture. My first substack post on why everyone should pay more attention to India. srajagopalan.substack.com/p/why-everyone…

This poor child! V epitome of a soulless bureaucracy. Even in banking there used to be an informal policy of not firing people on a Friday to reduce risk to mental health.

re-branding “not knowing how to drive” into “climate activism”

Announcing God In a Box, a direct implementation of GPT-3.5 into Whatsapp. Unlike other implementations, ours uses the brand new model and API, and doesn't require credentials. We're launching tonight, but you'll need a beta key. For a free key, just RT this and I'll DM you one.

📣 In the last two years BIT has worked on a huge range of issues looking for practical, evidence-based solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. We are proud to present the results of this work in the BIT Review for 2021-2022. 📣

🤔Should employers help improve their employees' financial wellbeing? And if so can they? Yes, and absolutely! 😀 In fact in lots of ways - here's some of the ways we've found that work with our Financial Capability Lab partnership Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) bi.team/work-with-us-3…

With cost of living pressures contributing to money worries, we've worked with @B_I_Tweets to test products and services that could improve financial wellbeing in the workplace. Find out how employers can support employees' financial wellbeing: ow.ly/tKK450LXwiQ

Payroll savings schemes aim to support people to save by diverting a proportion of pay into a savings vehicle each month. We've partnered with @B_I_Tweets to understand the power of these schemes for both employers and employees. See what we found: ow.ly/1m4g50LYzEP