Sociology: do anything and call it work

TikTok helps migrant workers find their voice, but they're still stuck in a shitty system that exploits them both online and off.

The world is literally not built for disabled people and it’s because of capitalism.

TikTok is getting banned in the US, so everyone is panic-moving to another Chinese app called RedNote, proving that the "digital cold war" is basically just people switching tabs while the government yells about spies.

Gen Z loves TikTok, governments hate it, and the author spent way too much time watching teens dance to explain why it's taking over the world.

The author spent 18 months watching people scroll through TikTok just to confirm that they use it to rot their brains in peace, but feels kinda bad about it because the algorithm knows them better than their own mothers.

People trust TikToks of migrants winging it more than sketchy ads from actual human smugglers.

Public computer labs are basically carrying the entire job market for poor people on their backs, but the government still won't put a ring on it.

Uber drivers and delivery guys live in poor neighborhoods, but the author had to use a massive national dataset to prove what everyone already sees on the street.

Cameroonian guys are hustling as "downloaders" to survive, proving that masculinity and dodging corrupt city officials are just part of the grind in the digital informal economy.

The government went digital and now everyone is screwed, so the author asked some social workers how much they hate being tech support for unemployed people who can't use a computer.

Government programs for grads have failed, so young graduates are bootlegging Canal+ to survive.

The authors asked 10 young entrepreneurs in Fes how they use the internet, and it turns out that watching YouTube tutorials and using Facebook is basically their entire business strategy because they're too broke for anything else.

Even if you're basically the same, the news will find a way to make you the "other" so they can keep calling you a threat while pretending you're family.

Muslims are people too, and it's complicated.

British people hate religion and Islam specifically, so Muslims are having a really hard time trying to fit into a secular society that's basically side-eyeing them.

Muslims are actually different people and it depends on where they live.

Germany and Australia have different ways of being dicks to Turkish Muslims, so Turkish Muslims in Germany and Australia feel differently about themselves.