*California's fast-food workers win fight for $20 hourly pay and industry council.*

A US marine who violated his oath to defend the Constitution has received an interesting sentence for violating that oath by joining in the Jan 6 insurrection.

*[The insurrectionist] is prohibited [by a court order] from making public statements attacking prosecutors, court staff and potential trial witnesses.*

The Tories made convicts' probation centralized nationwide, then privatized it. That drove the experienced workers to quit. The Tories since undid the privatization, but that has not fixed the problem.

Basically, reorganizing such activities based primarily on thinking about "efficiency" (low cost of the activity) is foolish because how well the activity does its job for society is more important.

* When rich people convince themselves that they’re rich because they’re smart — instead of lucky and ruthless — they misapply their talents to areas beyond their expertise.*

The article uses Ex-Twitter and Starlink as examples to show that we should not allow companies to direct such systems however they wish, given that more important things than private profit are at stake.