Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​ @dredmorbius@toot.cat

Remember all those apps that monitor drivers? The DSP owners instruct their drivers to turn them off whenever there's a delivery crunch, and then order drivers to proceed at unsafe speeds on residential streets to make Amazon's quotas:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgxx54/amazon-drivers-are-instructed-to-drive-recklessly-to-meet-delivery-quotas

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DSP drivers wear Amazon uniforms and drive vans with the Amazon logo. They are surveilled by multiple interior and exterior cameras that track their location, their driving, and (checks notes) their facial expressions?!

https://www.wired.com/story/some-amazon-drivers-have-had-enough-can-they-unionize/

Amazon gives its 2,500 DSP owners impossible delivery goals, and the DSP owners pass those on to their 158,000 drivers.

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Warner falsely claims the bill will take away the right of gig workers *not* to be unionized. This is just not true, as More Perfect Union reminds us: "This lets independent contractors join a union. It doesn’t force them to."

https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1389587206298341382

The entire gig economy runs on idiotic lies like this one. Take the premise that workers are independent, organized into "two-sided markets" by apps that match workers and work, and that manage the process with cool, machine-like objectivity.

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It's the first pro-worker law since 1935's NLRA, and it restores many of the rights to organize unions and create serious penalties for employers who break the law to prevent their workers from unionizing (today, employers break labor laws with impunity).

For a great, plain-language breakdown of its contours, check out this breakdown by Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue's labor reporter.

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One of the Biden admin's most important pieces of legislation is the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act), which reverses decades of union-busting policies and laws that have led to widening inequality, wage stagnation, and working poverty across America.

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@thegibson @datatitian
Nothing says "we give up" like saying it's just not a problem.

Gonna say this one time.

I don’t post this stuff because I am looking for someone to tell me there’s not a scholarly article, or a deeper dive. I post it because of trends I have seen in the reporting of day to day events, and emerging threats.

I didn’t get here on scholarly articles on emerging threats

As this one gets closer to being truly weaponized… You need to know that SPECTRE and Meltdown cannot be patched..

https://threatpost.com/attacks-slaughter-spectre-defenses/165809/

I need a job. While I'm applying to PhD positions, I can't wait around for that.

Nothing makes the reality that I have to do this hit hard quite like paying out 10k of bills...

Recent M.Sc. in Mathematics (Number Theory). I can do mathematics, software engineering, etc. I write English passably, and can limp by in German.

Goettingen or remote... I'll move if I must but it'd be a heavy burden at this point. USA citizen in Germany, Czech citizenship in the works but not yet in the bag. This is 2021, surely remote is possible.

Temporary or freelance work also a possibility. ​

Running the Opposite of the Crowd (May 2021) - #fz_drawing

RT @random_walker@twitter.com

35 million U.S. phone numbers are disconnected each year. Most get reassigned to new owners. In a new study, @kvn_l33@twitter.com and I found 66% of recycled numbers we sampled were still tied to previous owners’ online accounts, possibly allowing account hijacking. https://recyclednumbers.cs.princeton.edu/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1389282906883899394

Hey!

If you shoot on film today (and especially if you're shooting black and white) what do you use?

I used to shoot mostly color reversal/slide film. I haven't done anything with film in something like 6 or 7 years.

I used to have a camera shop, I bought what the expert told me to buy.

I don't have a camera shop anymore, and now folks are going to expect me to be the expert.

Can you help me find some sane defaults?

What do you do when the website frontend of list of outlet products in your local electronics store is impossible to use?

Right, you write your own #Python script that scrapes the data via requests to the #API the #ajax / #xhr calls use.

(Webshop in question was loading products page by page, and only then filters the results by your selected local store... meaning you often get only 1 or 2 results added, before you have to trigger the infinite scroll again...)

#coding #scraping

#Librarians friends of the Fediverse, I am looking for interesting newsletters or RSS feeds about libraries I could follow. Could you help me?

Mostly around:

• #library and #librarianship in general, #archives are an interest too, physical and digital sides both
• All things #public #library
• #cataloguing in all its form
• #games library, in particular #boardgame library

Languages:
Mainly EN and FR, but feel free to point to stuff in other languages, I will check it out, thanks to the miracle of today’s internet translators.

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Amis #bibliothécaires du Fédiverse, je suis à la recherche d’infolettres ou de flux RSS intéressant à propos des bibliothèques que je pourrais suivre. Pouvez-vous m’aider?

Principalement autour de :

• #bibliothèques et travail de #bibliothécaires en général, les #archives m’intéressent également, tant les aspects physiques et numériques
• Tout autour des #bibliothèques #publiques
• #Catalogage sous toutes ses formes
• #ludothèque

Langues:
Principalement EN et FR, mais je jetterai un œil à des choses en d’autres langues aussi grâce aux miracles des traducteurs en ligne d’aujourd’hui.

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Please boost

Which #universities are on #Mastodon / Fediverse?
Welche #Universitäten sind im #Fediverse?

Official:
• @unihohenheim Uni #Hohenheim, #Germany
• @unijena Uni #Jena, Germany

Own server:
• https://mastodon.utwente.nl/about @utwente #UTwente, #Netherlands
• https://metu.life/about/ @Tuan #Metu, #Turkey
• https://mastodon.mit.edu/about @maxj @dukhovni #MIT, #USA
• https://mastodon.ocf.berkeley.edu/about @staff UC #Berkeley, USA

Students’ Committee:
• @astatu #AStA #TUBerlin #Berlin, Germany.

Any missing?

What's your favorite thing you can do with your PinePhone that you can't do with Android or iOS? Please boost.