Ben Schneider
@benmschneider
Research on work, job quality, and technology. Researcher @uio.no, Research Associate @camunicampop.bsky.social 🗽 in 🇳🇴 sites.google.com/view/benschneider
The United States of America: using liberatory narratives to sell multi-level scams for more than 100 years (From @larryglickman.bsky.social’s 1998 book)
Armstrong is summarizing Arthur fairly, although his presentation is a bit off (it's a Harvard Business Review piece). I now think I need to go back and re-assess my view of Arthur's work, given that he seems to have missed out on...the assembly line.
West Side beats East Side and the Kennedy Nepo baby @merleeisenberg.bsky.social @wrigleyfield.bsky.social
. @sarahoconnorft.ft.com neatly sums up in two snappy paragraphs what I took 10,000+ words to say (and she is completely right that many of the most important changes of industrialization are difficult to quantify) www.ft.com/content/f837...
The complete absence of horses makes me think these guards aren’t doing a very good job
Horrifying new AI use case Note: most Norwegians do not look like this
I see The Economist thinks that only men work, and that there is national unemployment data for Britain in the 18th and early 19th century (this doesn’t exist) Will do a proper thread on how misleading this is soon, but for now a link will suffice: academic.oup.com/past/article...
This is a spectacular bit of sanewashing www.ft.com/content/f75f...
I knew without having to read the description that this episode was not going to advocate counting housework in GDP or considering intrinsic motivation on a par with extrinsic
The public health communication strategy of “we are going to repeat misinformation and hope you will go to the website in much smaller print to check it” seems…questionable
Capitalism is when the public subsidizes input costs during bad times
A moment in the history of viewpoint diversity in US universities
Kaiser Wilhelm winning one of the five Grand Crosses of the Iron Cross in the First World War
I should win a prize from Skiforeningen for having the last Brovoll waffle of the season 🥲
Du: skisesongen i marka er død 😔 Meg: den er oppstått!! Påskemirakel! 🐣 ❄️
Signs of spring: snøen er nesten borte her i lavlandet 😭 og vannene smelter
Why has Starmer still not learned that doing something for President Crimes gets you *nothing*? Also, Britain was not our first ally (🇫🇷) but our first _enemy_
Signs of spring: the bandy rink is melting and kids are playing football on it again