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Chuck DarwinFollowing California implementing a law raising its minimum wage to $20 for more than 500,000 fast-food workers in the state in 2024,
Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of research firm Beacon Economics, offered a warning about the state raising its minimum wage.
“California’s well-intended push to reduce income inequality via wage floors is beginning to have a significant negative impact on some of our most vulnerable workers
—our youth, particularly those from lower-income households,”
he wrote earlier this year.
His concerns echoed those of fast-food franchise owners, one of whom told Fortunein 2024 that higher wages would be unsustainable for smaller chains with slim margins.
But nearly two years after the law’s passage, economists are seeing very different results than what was initially feared.
A working paper from University of California at Berkeley released this month found the policy increased average weekly wages for eligible workers by 11% and did not reduce employment.
Prices increased modestly, about 1.5%, or the equivalent of about six cents for a $4 item.
“The results are nowhere as dire as predicted,”
Michael Reich, the study author and chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at UC Berkeley, told Fortune
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/economists-warned-california-not-raise-110500084.html?guccounter=1
Matthias Ott✍️ New post: Design and Engineering, As One
A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident.
https://matthiasott.com/articles/design-and-engineering-as-one
Design and Engineering, As One · Matthias Ott
We inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, most digital product teams are still running on that model. The gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident. It was designed in. And it can be designed out.
I had a vision, while listening to All Day earlier, of a live stage production on the Carousel of Progress, with every artist rotating in as their song begins and sliding out as their contribution concludes.
Maybe there are uses for AI video after all.
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Eliot Higgins🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?
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Richard SchneemanI joined RubyCentral to release a postmortem, and today I'm delivering my report on what happened. The hope is to provide more transparency and closure, 194 days since the incident on September 18, 2025.
I've named the incident "RubyGems Fracture." For full details, read my report. #ruby
https://rubycentral.org/news/rubygems-fracture-incident-report/
RubyGems Fracture Incident Report
By: Richard Schneeman This document attempts to give closure to the Ruby community about the events that led to the incident, September 10-18, 2025, which I’ve named “RubyGems Fracture.” Preamble I joined Ruby Central’s Open Source Committee on October 22nd, 2025, after the GitHub access changes. I was
A. Lee Bennett Jr.RIP James “Mr. Strickland” Tolkan
Shire-Reckoning WestFrodo enters the Sammath Naur. ‘I have come. But…I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine!’ He puts on the Ring and vanishes.
Sauron’s forces suddenly waver. The Nazgûl turn and fly away south. Gandalf cries: ‘Stand, Men of the West! Stand and wait! This is the hour of doom.’