It’s a story of three brothers, a boat and thousands of miles of ocean. The Maclean brothers from Scotland are in the final stretch of their attempt to row nonstop across the Pacific from Peru to Australia. They’re going for more than a world record — they’re raising money for clean water projects in East Africa. John Yang spoke with the brothers when they were about 500 miles from Australia.

Well it seems like a decision was made between the last page and this one, a serious and sober decision to discontinue the character of Orzabal the Intense aka fantasy Super Derek. Fortunately we will soon be leaving the (this) fantasy universe and like when you realise the terrible situation unfolding in front of you is a dream, all disasters will be unmade.

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About 450 immigrant workers hired to disinfect New York City’s subways at the height of the pandemic were given inadequate equipment and paid less than the city’s prevailing wage. They have now won more than $3 million in back pay.

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Hector Reyna had a hunch he was being duped.

One of hundreds of immigrant workers hired to disinfect New York’s subways at the height of the pandemic, the forty-eight-year-old from the Dominican Republic couldn’t ignore such a stark disparity between extraordinary needs of the moment and the low pay.

“I always asked myself the question,” he said. ​“Why so little money for such a risky job?”

Reyna was hired to clean trains and subway stations in Brooklyn and Queens in August 2020, three months after the New York Times published the names of one hundred thousand people in the United States who died from COVID, and two months before any vaccine was available.

Five years later, Reyna and hundreds of his coworkers will get their big payday after a $3 million settlement secured by City Comptroller Brad Lander. But at the time, Reyna worked through a series of rationalizations to explain his situation. At least his pay of $21 an hour was above both the city’s minimum wage and the state’s minimum wage of $14.50 an hour. ​“For me, it was a lot,” he says. But even so, the job was hard — and painful. Skin would peel off workers’ bodies from the harsh chemicals used to clean. The company later diluted them to make the solutions less acrid. The gloves provided were flimsy.

Reyna couldn’t reconcile these contradictions and had a feeling he was on the losing side of an existential ledger. He wasn’t alone making that cold calculus: work or starve. He counted his blessings and continued to work.

“I felt blessed because I was working during an extremely difficult time, when many people were out of work,” says Reyna. ​“But at the same time, I was consciously aware of the danger I was taking every minute, every hour, every day that I went to work.”

As I reported at the time for the American Prospect, contractors received a windfall of $371 million, but they subjected their workers to poor treatment on the job, retaliation, and open sexual harassment. Several workers, as well as other advocates for safe workplaces, shared in interviews that cleaners often received substandard cleaning equipment. Reyna says he wasn’t given respirators but regular masks. They weren’t provided with uniforms and sometimes were working in empty trains in which they could encounter a homeless person in crisis, also struggling to survive.

Like countless immigrant workers, the tug of necessity kept him focused on toiling.

Floors were stained with shit and vomit. The company provided them with powerful sprays, but ​“they hit your face, your arms, so that caused a lot of allergies, a lot of itching, a lot of burning.” But like countless immigrant workers, the tug of necessity kept him focused on toiling.

Reyna, like many of the cleaners he worked with, was the sole breadwinner for his family, who were in the Dominican Republic. He sent whatever earnings he could collect to provide for their livelihoods, making his sacrifices in New York, away from his family, worth it.

“My wife and two children were in Santo Domingo,” he says. ​“You live with the uncertainty of not knowing what’s going to happen to your wife or your children there, and you’re here and you can’t even travel because it wasn’t possible yet.”

He says he went to work cleaning after leaving a job at a minimart because he wasn’t feeling safe as owners and customers flaunted pandemic safety guidelines. With so many getting sick in New York, he feared it was only a matter of time before he would also catch the virus.

Sanitizing subways, meanwhile, came with the security of working in largely deserted subway stations.

Reyna stayed on at LN Pro Services until 2023, one of the private contractors the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) hired after then governor Andrew Cuomo shut down the twenty-four-hour subway in May 2020 for overnight scrubdowns. Now, he’s one of a largely immigrant workforce of about 450 contracted subway cleaners who will share in a more than $3 million settlement recouped by City Comptroller Brad Lander.

​“Without these cleaners sanitizing and keeping our train system from piling up with debris, New York City would have had a much harder time getting moving again five years ago,” Lander said in a statement. They should have been paid NYC’s prevailing wage. But when NYCTA contracted with LN Pro Services and Fleetwash to clean the subways, it didn’t require them to do so over the objections of then comptroller Scott Stringer.

“This case has been a long time in the making,” said Claudia Henriquez, Director of Workers’ Rights in the comptroller’s office. ​“Under comptroller Scott Stringer, the office issued a determination that the contracts to clean the subway cars were covered by the prevailing wage. And just a little bit of background on the prevailing wage, the prevailing wage is a special rate of pay that’s higher than the minimum wage that applies to certain public contracts.”

Under state law, the city’s comptroller sets and enforces prevailing wage laws. It requires that prevailing wages and supplemental benefits be paid to building service employees on public contracts.

Henriquez says the underpayment for the workers was in the range of $14 per hour based on how long they stayed working for the contractors. Workers are entitled to benefits after three months on the job. ​“Those benefits can be paid either through the provision of actual benefits, such as healthcare, a 401K, other direct benefits to the employee, or they can be paid in cash wages,” says Henriquez. ​“And for those workers who are employed in 2022–23, it was a little over $14 per hour.”

“Individual workers’ pay varied, but essentially, most of them, during that time, were making in the range of $16 to $18 per hour,” she continues. ​“So already they’re making a couple of dollars below what the prevailing wage required for workers who have been employed with the company for more than two years.” In 2020, New York City’s prevailing wage was $20.38 with a benefit range of $13.33 per hour.

In Reyna’s case, he was making $21.50 an hour in 2022 with no benefits. In an audit of his specific case shared by Lander’s office, Henriquez shared the following breakdown of underpayments over the years:

From March through May 2022, he should have been paid $21.43 per hour in wages plus $14.01 per hour in benefits.

In June 2022, he was entitled to $24.29 per hour in wages plus $14.01 per hour in benefits.

By August 2022, he was entitled to the full benefit rate of $14.34 per hour.

So, for the first half of 2022, the difference between what he should have made ($21.43+$14.01), and what he did make ($21.50) was $13.94.

From August through December, he was entitled to $24.29 in wages + $13.34 in benefits. His rate of pay remained $21.50, so the difference then was $16.13.

As part of the settlements, NYCTA will pay out $2.4 million on behalf of LN Pro Services and over $600,000 for Fleetwash.

Reyna is now a union member with 32BJ SEIU cleaning buildings in midtown Manhattan and writes in Spanish over text that ​“there are many benefits in the workplace that I have never had in any other job.” He has ten sick days, paid vacations, and guaranteed paid bumps, which tops out at $31 an hour after forty-two months of employment. ​“And earning a little more always gives you a breather!”

Reyna is now a union member with 32BJ SEIU cleaning buildings in midtown Manhattan and writes in Spanish over text that ‘there are many benefits in the workplace that I have never had in any other job.’

But not every worker has landed on their feet. Another train cleaner from Venezuela, Catalina Cruz, who asked to use a pseudonym because she feared being targeted for her asylum immigration status, had been working at John F. Kennedy Airport as a ramp worker for the past two years, but because she only has a legal working permit, she says she was fired on national security grounds because she wasn’t a US citizen. The Trump administration has restricted the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and valid US visa holders, part of a crackdown on immigrants, in which both documented and undocumented people are disappeared by Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE) agents in broad daylight.

The economist Paul Krugman has dubbed the state’s ramp up in repression investments ​“ICEing the economy,” with $45 billion to expand the country’s network of detention centers, including $30 billion for arrest and deportation efforts, as well as hiring around ten thousand more ICE agents. Together, these efforts to expand the state’s capacity to detain, deport and jail ​“will eventually do even more economic harm than tariffs,” says Krugman.

While good paying jobs are growing for jailers with an expansion of public spending, service jobs for pushing a traveler on a wheelchair along an airport ramp are declining, by Trump replacing immigrant workers through racist policies. Before we hung up the phone, Cruz asked me, ​“if you know of any work, please keep me in mind.”

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This article was reprinted from In These Times.

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This 2013 essay from David Graeber hit me today as I am trying to launch a business and applying to and getting rejected for dozens of jobs in this bullshit economy.

I am interested in the future of society and work that doesn’t focus on maximum profit for others through mass exploitation of humans and the planet.

Here are a few quotes that stood out to me:

“This is precisely the system that has imposed free market orthodoxy, and opened the world to financial pillage, under the watchful aegis of American arms.”

“Politics itself is just a matter of creating the conditions for growing the economy by allowing the magic of the marketplace to do its work. All other hopes and dreams—of equality, of security—are to be sacrificed for the primary goal of economic productivity.”

“The morality of debt and the morality of work are the most powerful ideological weapons in the hands of those running the current system.”

I encourage you to read the full essay and open up some discussion in the comments here or via email: A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse.

Today's links

• Radical juries: They sure hate Big Tech.
• Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
• Object permanence: DIY TSA universal keys; Steve Jackson Games raid +20.
• Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.
• Recent appearances: Where I've been.
• Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Colophon: All the rest.

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Radical juries (permalink)

I don't know if you've heard, but water has started running uphill – I mean, speaking in a politico-scientific sense:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/28/mamdani/#trustbusting

By which I mean, the bedrock consensus of political science appears to have been disproved. Broadly speaking, political scientists believe that lawmakers and regulators only respond to the policy preferences of powerful people. If economic elites want a policy, that's the policy we get – no matter how unpopular it is with everyone else. Likewise, even if something is very, very popular with all of us, we won't get it if the super-rich hate it.

Just take a look at the gap between public opinion and policy outcomes: most people think "capitalism does more harm than good"; most Canadians, Britons and Australians aged 18-34 think "socialism will improve the economy and well-being of citizens"; 72% of Brits support a national job guarantee; the majority of Californians support permanent rent-controls; and most people in 40 countries want CEO salaries capped at 4X that of their lowest-paid employees:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/07/the-people-no-2/#water-flowing-uphill

The inability of the public to get its way isn't just an impressionistic view – it's an empirical finding, based on a representative sample of 1,779 policy outcomes, that politicians ignore the will of the people in favor of the will of billionaires:

economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

And yet, all over the world, we're seeing these irrepressible outbreaks of antitrust policy, aimed squarely at shattering corporate power:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/28/mamdani/#trustbusting

It's a mystery. There's no policy that would be harder on billionaire wealth and power than vigorous antitrust enforcement (not least because preventing corporate concentration is key to preventing regulatory capture):

https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/05/regulatory-capture/

Certainly, there are a lot of merely obscenely rich people who are angry that the farcically rich people are screwing them over, and this class division between the 0.01% and the 1% has opened up some political space:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/09/elite-disunity/#awoken-giants

But that wouldn't be enough, not without the massive supermajorities of everyday people who are sick to the back teeth of being abused by corporations, and who are desperate for any outlet to strike back.

Take juries. Orrick is a big corporate law firm that represents the kinds of companies that might find their future in the hands of a jury in a state or federal courthouse. Orrick periodically surveys representative samples of people who show up for jury service to get a picture of their attitude towards the kinds of companies that can afford to hire a firm like theirs:

https://www.orrick.com/en/Insights/Groundbreaking-Jury-Research-Reveals-US-Jury-Attitudes-in-a-Polarized-Society

Their latest report contrasts the results of a pre-pandemic 2019 survey with a 2025 survey of 1,011 jurors in California, Florida, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Texas, New Jersey, and New York.

They found that jurors' trust in the court system has plummeted since 2019 (67% in 2019, 48% in 2025); hostility to cops has tripled (11% to 33%); anti-corporate sentiment is way up (27% then, 45% now). The percentage of jurors who believe that they should use the courts to "send a message to companies to improve their behavior" has risen from 58% to 62%; and 77% want to award punitive damages to "punish a corporation" (up from 69%).

And jurors are notably hostile to pharma companies, energy companies and large banks, but they especially hate social media companies.

It's no wonder that corporations are so desperate to take away our right to sue them, and why "binding arbitration" clauses that permanently confiscate your legal rights are now part of every corner of modern life:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/15/dogs-breakfast/#by-clicking-this-you-agree-on-behalf-of-your-employer-to-release-me-from-all-obligations-and-waivers-arising-from-any-and-all-NON-NEGOTIATED-agreements

The business lobby has been trying to take away workers' and customers' and citizens' right to seek justice in court for decades, ginning up urban legends like "A lady's coffee was too hot so McDonald's had to give her $2.7 million":

https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/12/hot-coffee/#mcgeico

Don't believe it. The courts are rarely on our side, but the fact that sometimes, every now and again, a jury will seize an opportunity to deliver a smidgen of justice just drives plutocrats nuts. Billionaireism is the belief that you don't owe anything to anyone else, that morality is whatever you can get away with. You don't have to be a billionaire to contract a wicked case of billionaireism – but you do have to be stinking rich to benefit from it:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/20/billionaireism/#surveillance-infantalism

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Hey look at this (permalink)

• How Uber Became A Cash-Generating Machine https://len-sherman.medium.com/how-uber-became-a-cash-generating-machine-ef78e7a97230

• Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet https://brave.com/blog/comet-prompt-injection/

• Burner Phone 101 https://rebeccawilliams.info/burner-phone-101/

• Commonwealth Bank backtracks on AI job cuts, apologises for 'error' as call volumes rise https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-21/cba-backtracks-on-ai-job-cuts-as-chatbot-lifts-call-volumes/105679492

• It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes https://defector.com/it-took-many-years-and-billions-of-dollars-but-microsoft-finally-invented-a-calculator-that-is-wrong-sometimes?giftLink=50fb6d3bb4d7516dfa13deb4e27638de

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Object permanence (permalink)

#20yrsago Google stealthily monitoring clickthroughs from search-results https://web.archive.org/web/20051119012842/http://mboffin.com/post.aspx?id=1830

#20yrsago Hunter S Thompson’s ashes in fireworks display — pics http://www.talkleft.com/story/2005/08/22/076/47806/media/Hunter-Thompson-s-Final-Blast-Off

#10yrsago Make your own TSA universal luggage keys https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/where-oh-where-did-my-luggage-go/2014/11/24/16d168c6-69da-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html

#10yrsago Regal promises security-theater bag-searches in America’s largest cinema chain https://www.techdirt.com/2015/08/21/tsa-movies-theater-chain-looks-to-bring-security-theater-to-movie-theater/

#10yrsago Judge: City of Inglewood can’t use copyright to censor videos of council meetings https://web.archive.org/web/20150821122121/http://popehat.com/2015/08/20/californias-city-of-inglewood-cant-copyright-city-council-meetings-case-against-youtube-critic-tossed/

#10yrsago EFF-Austin panel commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Steve Jackson Games raid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChPS4H-nqiQ

#5yrsago Facebook overrules its own fact-checkers https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/21/zuck-the-scale-thumber/#scale-thumbers

#5yrsago Rewarding CEOs for failure https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/21/zuck-the-scale-thumber/#failing-up

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Upcoming appearances (permalink)

• Ithaca: AD White keynote (Cornell), Sep 12
  https://deanoffaculty.cornell.edu/events/keynote-cory-doctorow-professor-at-large/

• DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
  https://politics-prose.com/cory-doctorow-10825

• New Orleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
  http://www.contraflowscifi.org/

• Chicago: Enshittification with Kara Swisher (Chicago Humanities), Oct 15
  https://www.oldtownschool.org/concerts/2025/10-15-2025-kara-swisher-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification/

• San Francisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
  https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25

• Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1504647263469

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Recent appearances (permalink)

• Divesting from Amazon’s Audible and the Fight for Digital Rights (Libro.fm)
  https://pocketcasts.com/podcasts/9349e8d0-a87f-013a-d8af-0acc26574db2/00e6cbcf-7f27-4589-a11e-93e4ab59c04b

• The Utopias Podcast
  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2272465/episodes/17650124

• Tariffs vs IP Law (Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFABFe-5-uQ

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Latest books (permalink)

• "Picks and Shovels": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about the heroic era of the PC, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2025 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels).

• "The Bezzle": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about prison-tech and other grifts, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2024 (the-bezzle.org).

• "The Lost Cause:" a solarpunk novel of hope in the climate emergency, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), November 2023 (http://lost-cause.org).

• "The Internet Con": A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech (Verso) September 2023 (http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org). Signed copies at Book Soup (https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245).

• "Red Team Blues": "A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you knowing more about how the world works than you did before." Tor Books http://redteamblues.com.

• "Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid, with Rebecca Giblin", on how to unrig the markets for creative labor, Beacon Press/Scribe 2022 https://chokepointcapitalism.com

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Upcoming books (permalink)

• "Canny Valley": A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025

• "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 7 2025
  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

• "Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, 2026

• "Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2026

• "The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2026

• "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026

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Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/).

Currently writing:

• "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux about being an effective AI critic. (1036 words yesterday, 39136 words total).

• A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING

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This is a production of Roadhouse in the Park.

Mark Rodney, 52, passed away suddenly last Saturday. His family has announced that the first person to correctly guess his cause of death will win a $25 Visa gift card.

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WASHINGTON—Emphasizing that he wasn’t going to leave the nation’s capital without getting one good photograph, D.C. tourist Stan Jacobs expressed frustration Friday after atrocities kept getting in the frame of his shot. “All right, everyone, looking good—just wait two more seconds until all those military guys finish shooting their assault rifles and hop back into their big armored tank,” said a visibly impatient Jacobs, who asked his family to give him a “big smile” and “say cheese” just as several National Guardsmen, FBI agents, and DHS officers sprinted into the foreground and began physically assaulting dozens of people. “Excuse me, sir? I know you have to do your job and brutalize American citizens, but could you just do it a few feet to the right? I only need two seconds without it looking like I live under a fascist police state. Actually. Could you take our picture? Just try not to get any blood on the lens.” At press time, Jacobs was reportedly struggling to crop in on the photo to hide the fact that an active member of the U.S. military had just shot him in the chest several times.

The post Atrocities Keep Getting In Frame Of D.C. Tourist’s Shot appeared first on The Onion.

NEW HAVEN, CT—Providing data that bolsters long-running concerns about the beverage among environmental experts and activists, a report published Wednesday by researchers at Yale University has found that humans waste an astonishing 74 billion gallons of water each year making tea. “We must stop this terrible practice of taking our most precious natural resource and, for no good reason, infusing it with tea leaves, rosehips, rooibos, and God knows what else,” conservationist Regina Alexander said in response to the report, observing that once water had been contaminated by the tea-brewing process, it could no longer be used for bathing, cleaning, preparing food, making coffee, or any other beneficial purpose. “It will be impossible to sustain the world’s growing population if our limited freshwater supply is squandered in such a reckless manner. We pour water over tea bags, let it steep for three to five minutes, and for what? The opportunity to take delicate sips and say we can detect subtle notes of peppermint? It makes no sense.” The report follows a study published last month that found humans also waste a distressing amount of water each year boiling eggs.

The post Report Finds Humans Waste 74 Billion Gallons Of Water Each Year Making Tea appeared first on The Onion.

The Food and Drug Administration warned Americans not to consume Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with the radioactive isotope Cesium-137. What do you think?

The post FDA Warns Against Eating Potentially Radioactive Shrimp Sold At Walmart appeared first on The Onion.

As millions of students across the U.S. return to the classes, schools and universities are struggling to establish consistent policies regarding the use of AI. The Onion examines the pros and cons of using artificial intelligence for schoolwork. 

PRO

Only possible way to figure out when World War I ended

Curriculum can be customized to each child’s unique style of stupidity

Frees kids up for extra shifts at the plant

More neurological bandwidth for anxiety disorder

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CON

Start associating screens with schoolwork instead of pornography

Could weaken development of important skimming and bullshitting skills

Nagging guilt it was actually AI that earned that C-

Copy-pasting assignments into ChatGPT still too much work

The post Pros And Cons Of Using AI For Schoolwork  appeared first on The Onion.

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The court, saying the administration used “a novel series of legal and personnel moves,” held that Habba’s term as the interim U.S. attorney ended in July, and the Trump administration’s maneuvers to keep her in the role without getting confirmation from the U.S. Senate didn’t follow procedures required by federal law.