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New Posts by @zizilizizi.bsky.social (started May 11, 2026)
Previously managed by @kaareeenah.bsky.social
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Across countries and platforms, AI’s outsourcing maze depends on data workers under surveillance-heavy conditions, with accountability fragmented across multiple firms, reports Marché Arends.
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"The International Labour Organization on Friday agreed to adopt the first binding employment standards for platforms offering services such as ride-hailing, food delivery and e-commerce."
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This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center
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In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
New article! Popular Digital Sovereignty and Digital Real Utopias: Lessons from the Homeless Workers' Movement in Brazil
W/ @alecostabarbosa.bsky.social in Convergence journal. Special issue, utopian media studies edited by @textaural.bsky.social & Jakko Kemper
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@notechforapartheid.bsky.social on organising at Google.
@machinemarx.bsky.social, on data work and converging labour regimes.
Exploitation, control, and their convergences across geographies
disjunctionsmag.com
absolutely crazy: An Amazon / Rivian software update automatically turns off Amazon drivers' AC after 30 seconds under conditions that are very common during delivery shifts:
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@united4respect.bsky.social Education Fund spent several months surveying low-income workers on their experiences as AI and automation take over work sites.
We're partnering w/ them and @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social to share the findings in a free webinar. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Monterey Park has become the first city in California to ban data centers. https://ow.ly/nxIf50Z9sRZ
With about 70% of Americans opposing the construction of data centers near them, it likely won’t be the last. https://ow.ly/oV8R50Z9sRW
It didn’t have to be this way. The current data center heat issue is not just a material problem but an epistemic one that stems in part from debates at The Macy Conferences that led to the omission of heat and materiality from early foundations of information theory. meson.press/wp-content/u...
A new software update is turning off the AC in Amazon delivery vans after 10 minutes or 30 seconds under certain conditions.
After tabling a proposal for a massive data center in December, Monterey Park leaders will let voters decide the future of similar facilities in the city.
The International Labour Organization on Friday agreed to adopt the first binding employment standards for platforms offering services such as ride-hailing, food delivery and e-commerce.
www.reuters.com
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Kenyan data workers describe surveillance-heavy shifts and sudden layoffs, exposing the hidden supply chain behind AI development, reports Marché Arends.
Alberta's Wonder Valley AI data centre will be an “energy-and-heat-behemoth" warns a Utah State University physicist commissioned to assess the project.
