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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Roy Moore Was Banned from the Mall but Won His Defamation Suit</strong> - A jury in Alabama awarded the former Senate candidate more than eight million dollars. A lawyer for the defense says that the case reflects a worrying trend. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-south/roy-moore-was-banned-from-the-mall-but-won-his-defamation-suit">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Long March Toward a National Latino Museum</strong> - A community whose role in U.S. history has been too often ignored is telling its story at the Smithsonian. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-long-march-toward-a-national-latino-museum">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Kyiv’s Peace Is Destroyed</strong> - After repelling Russia’s assault earlier this year, the city awakens to missile strikes. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/kyivs-peace-is-destroyed">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Close Is Vladimir Putin to Using a Nuclear Bomb?</strong> - A Russian attack would terrorize the Ukrainian population and shatter a seven-decade-old international taboo, all while bringing few benefits on the battlefield. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-close-is-vladimir-putin-to-using-a-nuclear-bomb">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Timely Economics Nobel—and a Warning</strong> - As Wall Street gets jittery, Stockholm honors three economists who warned about fragilities in the banking system. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/a-timely-economics-nobel-and-a-warning">link</a></p></li>
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<img alt="A screenshot of three Saturday Night Live male comedians, dressed as the YouTubers Try Guys and sitting on a cream-colored sofa, addressing their viewers." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/uxn_K8falI0_8MqXb4GgAsEY_sM=/286x0:1562x957/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71484630/Screen_Shot_2022_10_11_at_4.50.45_PM.0.png"/>
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The recent fervor surrounding the Try Guys, a BuzzFeed-born YouTube collective of four guys who try things, is by all accounts pretty banal: One of the Try Guys cheated on his wife with an employee and was subsequently ousted from the group. Out of all the examples of bizarre drama between professional YouTubers, many of which have been <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/youtube-drama-channels-guide.html">christened with nicknames like “Dramageddon” or “Karmageddon,”</a> this one is hardly the juiciest.
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But if you are at all interested in the parasocial dynamics between content creators and their fans, or the intricacies of apology video posturing, or the paradox of the “wife guy,” or media studies in general, it is by far the most fascinating. What might have once been of interest to a small portion of mid-2010s YouTuber diehards is now a national punchline, ripe for pillory on <em>Saturday Night Live</em> in a sketch that deftly skewered the smarmy dramatics of the three leftover Try Guys’ responses to the whole thing.
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What made it even more prescient was the swift and <a href="https://twitter.com/emiliniumfalcon/status/1578971054357483525">furious backlash from Try Guys fans</a> on Twitter and YouTube, who argued that the sketch <a href="https://twitter.com/zerorantss/status/1578961780516458496">downplayed the power dynamic</a> between employer and employee and that it made fun of men who <a href="https://twitter.com/hensandhoneybs/status/1579226475957735424">“hold other men accountable.”</a> (I would argue that the sketch acknowledged both of these things and instead poked fun at the inherent ridiculousness of three men reading — and, let’s be clear, acting — from a teleprompter to millions of people about their friend cheating on his wife, but whatever. I’m not going to die on the hill of defending <em>SNL</em>.)
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Anyway, the thing that’s worth talking about is not the ex-Try Guy and his workplace affair, because there has already been too much speculation on the details and also because, again, everyone involved is a professional content creator. What’s more interesting is why so many people, some who had followed the Try Guys’ work for years and others who were only introduced this past week, cared.
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Infidelity, as my colleague Aja Romano pointed out last week, is <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/23387679/cheating-scandals-adam-levine-nia-long-try-guys-ned-fulmer">having a moment</a>: Beyond the Try Guys, a woman alleged that Maroon 5’s Adam Levine was cheating on his pregnant wife with her; married Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka was in an alleged relationship with a junior member of his staff; all while <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/17/invasion-of-the-sports-cheaters">cheating scandals of another form have rocked</a> the worlds of professional chess, poker, and fishing. Stories like these are irresistible in America’s rules-obsessed culture, where every person and every concept must be categorized as “good” or “bad,” morally righteous or unquestionably immoral, especially within internet communities dominated by young people <a href="https://mentalhellth.xyz/p/fuck-puritanism">who believe themselves to be moral authorities</a>.
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Every day, all the time, people are arguing in TikTok comment sections, Twitter threads, and Discord DMs about what is good and what is bad, but every so often, the entire internet feels like it’s discussing the same thing at once: the Try Guys, West Elm Caleb, Couch Guy, etc. What all of these viral phenomena amount to is gossip about other people’s personal lives, often people <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22716772/west-elm-caleb-couch-guy-tiktok-cancel">who weren’t even famous to begin with</a> but who got caught up in some largely invented scandal.
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No matter where the discourse lands, there will be people who have decided that what has just occurred is actually a matter of great ethical importance and that their take is the only one that is truly right. Others, naturally, will pipe up with responses on why the take is wrong, actually, and that they as a human being are wrong, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/toxic-person-tiktok-internet-slang-meaning/670599/">and toxic</a>, and evil. Niche drama is a way to reinforce those beliefs and rules, and to assert ourselves as good. Much like our <a href="https://www.gawker.com/culture/true-crime-is-rotting-our-brains">obsession with true crime</a>, niche gossip is often less about the incident itself and more about what we can extrapolate from it in order to make ourselves feel more safe and protected. And it could never, the underlying thinking goes, have happened to us.
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What I think the <em>SNL</em> sketch does well is poke fun at the group’s attempts at preserving their wholesome image: how they use therapeutic buzzwords to describe their feelings and congratulate themselves for kicking out a member despite the financial and public relations hit it cost them. (That the three other Try Guys are alleged to have known about and witnessed their <a href="https://twitter.com/ravii5150/status/1574851551889350657">partner’s bad behavior for years</a> adds a rather complicating element to this image.)
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Unlike random people who become the internet’s main character for the day, however, the Try Guys do this for a living. So far their videos entitled <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6fIp7mMJ90">“what happened”</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut68FBnWbAI&t=1s">“ok, let’s talk about it”</a> have received a total of more than 15 million views (and yes, both videos are monetized). They are professional content creators, and nothing makes for better content than a scandal. The Try Guys will be fine. The next person who gets caught up in a viral drama tornado may not be.
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<em>This column was first published in The Goods newsletter. </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/pages/newsletters"><em>Sign up here</em></a><em> so you don’t miss the next one, plus get newsletter exclusives.</em>
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A food delivery worker for Caviar in Times Square, New York City, in December 2021. The Biden administration has proposed a new regulation that would classify app-based delivery workers as employees. | Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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The Labor Department’s new worker classification rule, explained.
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The Biden administration has <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2022-21454/employee-or-independent-contractor-classification-under-the-fair-labor-standards-act">released a long-awaited proposal</a> that could make it easier for millions of truckers, Uber drivers, freelance writers, home care workers, and janitors to be classified as employees rather than independent contractors — a shift that would grant them access to a host of federal labor protections.
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The Biden administration’s 184-page proposed rule would<strong> </strong>change how the federal agency determines who constitutes an employee or an independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the 1938 law that determines<strong> </strong>eligibility for<strong> </strong>protections like minimum wage, overtime, Social Security, and unemployment insurance.
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It’s the<strong> </strong>latest development in a legal back-and-forth between presidential administrations that stretches back more than a decade. If the rule is<strong> </strong>finalized, it will almost certainly be challenged in court.
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The rule could have ramifications for the so-called gig economy. Companies like Uber, Lyft, and Instacart have argued that classifying their drivers as employees rather than contractors would devastate their business models. Other self-employed workers defend their independent contractor status, and say they prefer the flexibility and autonomy they’re afforded as they seek to balance other priorities in their lives.
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If the Biden administration’s proposed rule goes into effect — a big if — it could have significant consequences for workers and businesses alike.
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In the waning days of the Trump administration, the Labor Department <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/07/2020-29274/independent-contractor-status-under-the-fair-labor-standards-act">finalized a new rule</a> that gave extra weight to two specific questions when determining if someone is an independent contractor: how much control does a worker have over their work — can they set their own schedule, work for multiple employers, and reject certain projects? And how great is a worker’s opportunity for profit or loss based on their own initiative or investment? One tenet of independent contracting is that there should be “entrepreneurial opportunity” built into the arrangement.
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Organized labor has long held that this sort of employee classification test is too narrow, and that a broader “multi-factorial” test should be used to ensure higher working standards for as many people as possible. Union activists say a better test would give roughly equal weight to at least seven factors, including how important the worker is for the employer’s business, and how long the worker is employed.
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The Biden administration agrees. It<strong> </strong>wrote in its new proposal that it sees reverting back to this broader test as “more consistent with existing judicial precedent and the Department’s longstanding guidance prior” to the 2021 Trump rule.
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Rondu Gantt, an Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash driver based in San Francisco who organizes with the campaign Gig Workers Rising, said in a statement, “This rule can help establish bedrock protections for app-based workers like me and give us an important tool to fight for respect and safety on the job. Gig workers deserve all of the rights that other employees have, including the right to organize. This rule can also help protect workers all around the country as gig corporations try to bring their abusive model to the rest of the economy.”
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The lines between contracting and employment have been blurring in the age of remote work, but in general, it’s about<strong> </strong>how much control an employer exerts over an individual performing work for them, and what legal entitlements a worker can expect as a result. One major legal entitlement employees enjoy is the right to join a union. Another is the right to be paid at least the minimum wage, and for businesses to pay a portion of their Social Security tax. Contractors have no such guarantees, but some prefer the flexibility, and say they’d trade the workplace protections for freedom from a boss.
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The federal government has not made adjudicating this debate simple. In 1947, Congress explicitly carved out independent contractors from the National Labor Relations Act’s definition of “employee.”
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In 1968, the Supreme Court ruled in its <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/390/254/"><em>United Insurance </em>decision</a> that the “obvious purpose” of Congress excluding independent contractors from the law was<strong> </strong>to have the NLRB and courts “apply the common-law agency test” when distinguishing an employee from an independent contractor. Since then, the board and courts have used<strong> </strong><a href="https://iccoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Different-Tests-for-Defining-Employee-Website.pdf">a 10-factor test to settle the question</a>. Much of the legal debate over the last 15 years has been over whether any of those 10 factors — particularly entrepreneurial opportunity — should weigh more heavily than others.
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In 2006, FedEx Home Delivery drivers in Massachusetts sought to unionize with the Teamsters, but after they won their union election, FedEx refused to bargain with the drivers, saying they were independent contractors. The National Labor Relations Board sided with the drivers <a href="https://www.nlrb.gov/case/34-RC-002205">in 2007</a>, but two years later, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit <a href="https://casetext.com/case/fedex-home-delivery-v-nlrb">overturned the NLRB’s decision</a>, pointing to the drivers’ “entrepreneurial potential” — meaning their ability to shape both their work conditions for FedEx and additional clients — as a decisive factor. The appellate judges wrote in their decision that the NLRB “has no authority whatsoever over independent contractors.”
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The NLRB chose not to appeal this to the Supreme Court, the only US court whose rulings the NLRB considers as binding<strong>. </strong>So when a similar case came back up a half-decade later, the NLRB <a href="https://thenationaltriallawyers.org/2014/11/nlrb-fedex-employees/">sided with FedEx drivers again</a>. (This case involved Hartford, Connecticut, drivers who unionized.)
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Three years later, in 2017, the DC Circuit rejected the NLRB’s ruling once again, and pointed back to its 2009 decision when it said, “The question before this court was already asked and answered.”
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As all this was going on, businesses like Uber that rely heavily on independent contracting continued to expand, and began to look at currying favor with sympathetic politicians who could help codify their legally<strong> </strong>vulnerable business models. Corporate executives kept a wary eye on the legal battles unfolding in Washington, DC, but few felt real pressure to change their practices amid the uncertainty.
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By January 2019, the NLRB, which at this point had a Republican-appointee majority on its five-member panel, formally overturned its 2014 <em>FedEx </em>decision, in a case where a regional NLRB office had found that shuttle drivers who owned and operated franchises of SuperShuttle DFW were independent contractors. This <a href="https://www.nlrb.gov/case/16-RC-010963">2019 <em>SuperShuttle </em>decision</a> effectively reverted society back to the old gig economy-friendly independent contractor standard.
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Biden’s presidential campaign emphasized supporting and standing with labor unions, and the week of his inauguration he <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/trump-labor-board-460978">forced out two Trump-appointed NLRB counsels</a>, the first time in more than 70 years a president exercised that power. He then appointed Democrat Lauren McFerran, the lone dissenter in the 2019 <em>SuperShuttle </em>decision, to serve as NLRB board chair, and his administration <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/biden-axes-trump-gig-worker-rule-backs-broader-employee-model">blocked the Trump independent contractor rule</a> from taking effect.
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Biden also nominated Jennifer Abruzzo, a lawyer with the Communications Workers of America, to serve as the NLRB’s general counsel. By August 2021 Abruzzo had <a href="https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/general-counsel-jennifer-abruzzo-releases-memorandum-presenting-issue">issued a 10-page memo</a> laying out her priorities and instructed the agency’s regional offices to prioritize cases that pertain to specific past decisions, including the 2019 <em>SuperShuttle </em>case.
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<strong></strong>In late December, the National Labor Relations Board announced it would be accepting briefs relating to whether the federal agency should reconsider its standard — again — for determining independent contractor status.
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The fierce debate over contracting and the global economy
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When the NLRB issued its request for briefs in late December, it asked two main questions: Should the board stick to the independent contractor standard it established in its 2019 <em>SuperShuttle</em> decision? And if not, then what standard should replace it: should the NLRB return to its 2014 standard set by the more union-friendly <em>FedEx Home Delivery </em>decision?
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Public interest, government, and industry groups submitted more than 30 amicus briefs <a href="https://thecapitolforum.com/nlrb-atlanta-opera-briefs-include-antitrust-arguments-and-novel-proposals-setting-stage-for-gig-economy-to-face-all-of-government-approach-on-misclassification-concerns/">and were far from unanimous</a>. While many of the same arguments were recycled from the <em>FedEx</em> and <em>SuperShuttle</em> cases, briefs also featured some new themes, like that misclassification of workers poses an antitrust threat. One brief, filed by the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, argued that “a vague or under-inclusive” employee standard could harm workers, employers, and competition directly.
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The Labor Department rule is technically separate from the NLRB request for documents, though it centers on very similar legal questions. Before Tuesday, the Labor Department says, its wage and hour division considered feedback shared by stakeholders in forums held during the summer of 2022.
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“Standards and definitions under both statutes are a little different, but it’s definitely the same fruit salad and the two pieces of fruit are right next to each other,” said Michael Lotito, a management-side labor attorney at the law firm Littler Mendelson.
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler <a href="https://aflcio.org/press/releases/proposed-labor-rule-victory-working-people">hailed the draft rule</a> on Tuesday<strong> </strong>for “restoring commonsense rules to determine who is an employee, and making it harder for employers to intentionally misclassify their employees as independent contractors.” In the organization’s<strong> </strong>filed briefs to the NLRB, it warned against trying to revert back to a standard that couldn’t survive the courts.
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An NLRB brief filed by Democratic attorneys general representing 15 states and Washington, DC, argued that the “entrepreneurial opportunity” standard privileged by <em>SuperShuttle </em>is “particularly vulnerable to evasion” by employers.
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They urged instead weighting the three factors that form the basis for the so-called <a href="https://www.labor.ca.gov/employmentstatus/abctest/">“ABC” tests</a> used by many states to determine employee status, a test that makes it harder to classify someone as a contractor. A worker is only considered a contractor under this test if they have relative independence from the business paying their wages, if their work is separate from the type of work the business is typically engaged in, and if they typically do the type of work that the business hired them to do. In particular, “entrepreneurial opportunity” is insufficient to merit contractor status under the ABC test.
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Some groups had urged the NLRB to find a new middle-ground position.
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Buckle, a digital financial services company that provides insurance and credit options to drivers for ride-share and other gig companies, said the NLRB “should not be afraid to set a precedent allowing both employees and independent contractors.” For example, they said, their data indicates that 80 to 90 percent of drivers on gig platforms work less than 20 hours a week. But for the<strong> </strong>10 to 20 percent who drive 20 hours or more per week, and who<strong> </strong>“are heavily relied upon” by the companies to maintain consistent service levels, there should be clearer pathways to distinguish between them and the more casual workers.
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Other groups pushed the Biden administration to adhere to the status quo. One brief representing 12 Republican senators and another brief representing 30 Republican representatives pointed out that the Democratic-backed <a href="https://www.vox.com/22319838/house-passes-pro-act-unions">Protecting Right to Organize Act</a>, which would make it harder to classify workers as independent contractors, failed to pass in the Senate. “Congressional opposition to the change is, in part, because many Members believe that the current approach is best adapted to a twenty-first century economy,” the GOP officials wrote.
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The US Chamber of Commerce, the largest business lobby, also warned of government overreach. There is no reason for the NLRB to depart from its <em>SuperShuttle </em>standard, the Chamber wrote in its brief, and to do so “is a plain instance of its policy reach far exceeding its legitimate regulatory grasp.”
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Some groups <a href="https://fightforfreelancersusa.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/fight-for-freelancers-nlrb-amicus-brief.pdf">representing freelancers</a> and small businesses also urged the NLRB against revising its contracting standard, worried they would lose their prized independent status. They pointed to government surveys, like a <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-15-168r.pdf">2015 GAO report</a> that found more than 85 percent of independent contractors and those self-employed appeared content with their status. In 2018, the Bureau of Labor Statistics <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.nr0.htm">reported 79 percent</a> of independent contractors preferred their contracting arrangement over a traditional job.
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The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council <a href="https://sbecouncil.org/2022/10/11/dols-proposed-independent-contractor-rule-throws-called-water-on-u-s-entrepreneurship-and-flexibility/">issued a statement</a> on Tuesday calling the Labor Department’s rule “out-of-touch with the modern economy and how people want to work.”
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Given this opposition, a court challenge to the rule seems inevitable. Lotito, the labor lawyer, told Vox he thinks the Biden administration’s new rule will fail in court, and pointed <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/business-groups-get-trump-independent-contractor-rule-reinstated">to his firm’s successful challenge</a> against the Biden administration’s withdrawal of Trump’s worker classification rule. “My overall sense is that they really did not pay any attention to the [Texas] District Court’s decision; there’s no explanation that I’ve read so far that explains how the Trump rule has interfered with their ability to enforce their mission,” he said. “From an Administrative Procedure Act perspective, I also think this is a straight flop.”
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However, no legal challenge can be mounted against the rule until it is finalized. The Department of Labor is currently soliciting public comments on its proposal, and the final rule will likely not be issued for another few months.
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<li><strong>The $1,500 ticket to Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse</strong> -
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Meta’s new Quest Pro headset device is its first mixed reality headset. | Courtesy of Meta
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Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, released its long-awaited new virtual reality headset on Tuesday during Meta Connect, its annual developer conference.
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The new headset, <a href="https://www.oculus.com/blog/meta-quest-pro-price-release-date/">called the Quest Pro</a>, is a high-end device meant to have functionality rivaling a computer. In his keynote on Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called the new device “the next major step for VR” and “an important milestone on the path to building the metaverse.”
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“We’re in a moment now when a lot of the technologies that will power the metaverse are starting to take off,” Zuckerberg said at Connect.
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Zuckerberg is betting that one day, <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22799665/facebook-metaverse-meta-zuckerberg-oculus-vr-ar">AR/VR devices will become as ubiquitous</a> as mobile phones or laptops, and the Quest Pro is an important way for the company to demonstrate the promise of that vision. The Quest Pro is Meta’s first “mixed reality” device — meaning that you can see virtual objects overlaid onto your everyday real-life surroundings, unlike pure VR in which you’re completely detached from reality. The physical headset is designed to fit more comfortably on your head, and it comes with inward-facing eye tracking sensors, so that your avatars in the metaverse can naturally mimic your facial expressions.
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These are definite improvements to Meta’s existing VR/AR products. But there’s a major barrier that could stop the Quest Pro from fulfilling Zuckerberg’s ambitions to make his metaverse plan mainstream: the price tag. The Quest Pro costs nearly $1,500. That’s a price point that’s inaccessible to many everyday consumers, particularly during a period of economic downturn. It’s a 275 percent increase in the price point of its last AR/VR release, the Quest 2.
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That’s why Meta is selling its new AR/VR device as a work product, for people like architects, product designers, and molecular chemists who might be willing to pay up for a high-powered tool. Many of these professionals use 3D modeling in their day-to-day jobs that could justify the headset’s cost. That’s also why Meta announced partnerships with Adobe to put its 3D design software on VR, as well as with Microsoft to put its entire office suite of products on the Quest Pro.
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In Meta’s Connect presentation Tuesday, the company gave some examples of how certain companies are using its AR/VR products already, such as the shoe companies Puma and New Balance designing products in VR, and the pharmaceutical company Novartis doing nanomolecular design with the technology.
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But if Meta is pitching its marquee metaverse product as a high-end product for niche industry professionals, where does that leave everyone else? If the metaverse is going to be the next wave of computing akin to the modern internet or mobile phone, as Zuckerberg predicts it will, then it needs a critical mass of users — not just a small group of professional users who use it for specific industry applications.
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Early smartphones or proto-smartphones like the iPhone and BlackBerry were also <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/2604020/the-evolution-of-apples-iphone.html#:~:text=After%20months%20of%20rumors%20and,It%20offered%20a%203.5%2Din.">prohibitively expensive</a> for many everyday consumers at first, but eventually wireless providers began to help subsidize their access. And the utility of these phones for a wide variety of professions and interests (like being able to, for the first time, check email on the go, or combine an mp3 player with a phone) made them worth the cost — which, for the iPhone, actually increased over time. For Meta’s AR/VR products, there’s no outside network provider giving a subsidy at this point, and the use cases aren’t as strong for everyday users. That could change in the future, though, if the use cases for AR/VR become more compelling in both work and social settings.
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To Meta’s credit, building AR/VR is expensive. And Meta has, to date, produced some of the most affordable AR/VR headsets on the market. Zuckerberg recently told The Verge that the <a href="https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1579922604718055424">company’s strategy isn’t to make money from its AR/VR hardware</a>, and many speculated that it was selling its other AR/VR product, the Quest 2, at a loss for $399. (Before August, it was $299 — making it several hundred dollars cheaper than some of its leading competitors.)
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But the Quest Pro, like many emerging technologies, faces other barriers — like the fact that it can only be used for about one to two hours with a full charge, making it hard to use outside the home or office space where a charging station is handy. And the fact that its avatars still don’t have all the convincing qualities of regular human life, like legs (<a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/10/11/23399439/metaverse-mark-zuckerberg-connect-avatar-legs-meta-microsoft-apple-vr-ar">Zuckerberg has promised those</a> at some point in the near future).
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But the biggest challenge for Meta will be its accessibility. The personal computer, internet, and cellphone all revolutionized society. But these devices only started drastically reshaping the way we communicate once they were accessible and affordable enough to become mainstream. Meta indicated on Tuesday that it’s serious about improving the quality of the technology it offers in VR/AR, even if it has a long way to go. But it’s facing an even more pressing challenge: We’re not yet at the point where the products closest to achieving the metaverse vision are at a justifiable price to the everyday user.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Lovlina Borgohain bags gold in middleweight category in National Games</strong> - This was Lovlina’s first medal after switching to the middleweight, in which she would make her international debut at the upcoming Asian championships in Amman.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mbappé reportedly wants out of PSG amid growing frustration</strong> - A series of reports published in France and Spain say that PSG star Kylian Mbappé is frustrated and wants to leave during January's transfer window</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Andhra Pradesh: CPI conference will unveil a road map to oust BJP-led government at Centre, says D. Raja</strong> - The national conference, which will also see the participation of delegates from 17 nations, will be organised in Vijayawada from October 14 to 18</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Elon Musk denies he spoke to Putin about Ukraine war</strong> - The Tesla boss has denied reports he spoke to the Russian leader before tweeting about the Ukraine war.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Irish women’s team apologise over pro-IRA chants</strong> - The FAI and Republic of Ireland women’s manager Vera Pauw apologise for a pro-IRA chant by the team’s players after the World Cup play-off win.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Madeleine McCann suspect charged with separate sex offences</strong> - The key suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine is charged in Germany over unrelated offences.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>French oil workers vote to continue strike</strong> - The stoppage at refineries, now in its third week, has led to long queues at petrol stations.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>SpaceX announces a second private flight to the Moon aboard Starship</strong> - “We can’t force the timeline. It will happen when it happens.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1889174">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>After fight vs. FAA, Verizon’s and AT&T’s new spectrum is boosting 5G speeds</strong> - OpenSignal tests show C-band’s impact on 5G download speeds. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1889243">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>All the Best Prime Day Deals still running for Amazon’s Early Access sale [Updated]</strong> - We’ve sorted through Amazon’s pre-holiday sale to find the stuff that’s worth your time. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1888606">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Nikon Small World microscopy contest 2022: Meet this year’s top 10 winners</strong> - Your annual reminder that science can be beautiful as well as informative. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1889195">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Fake Joe Rogan interviews fake Steve Jobs in an AI-powered podcast</strong> - Voice synthesis PR stunt calls upon the dead to help sell an AI product. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1889202">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>The Indian restaurant I work for is so secretive I had to sign a legal agreement that I wouldn’t share the flatbread recipe</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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“I understand, my son,” the priest says. “I play the game as well, and it can be frustrating. What happened?”
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“No, the ball bounced off a tree and onto the green,” the man continued. “But it bounced into a sandtrap.”
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