This comes, notably, after Meta's announcement that it will lay off 8,000 workers next month.

New podcast exploring policies to support gig and migrant workers Gig Workers' Guide to the Scottish Election will take listeners through five policies to transform gig work in Scotland.

📢 2nd Episode is out 📢

🎙️Hosted by @xabivillares.bsky.social, joined by @bkarb.bsky.social , co-author of the Wellbeing, Health, and Road Safety in On-Demand Delivery Work report, and data scientist Marion Lieutaud.

🎧 Available on all platforms:
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Thanks @spokes.org.uk, for mentioning our work in your most recent bulletin! 💪

🗞️ Read the whole issue here: www.spokes.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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‘Uber for nurses’: gig-work apps lobby to deregulate healthcare, report finds Growing use of AI tech comes at expense of workers’ rights, protections and pay, report warns

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Effective negotiating & bargaining skills: 30, June, 1, & 2, July 2026, North West Region, In Person, Manchester This course is for those who are currently negotiating with management or those in the branch who want to learn more about the negotiating process. Negotiating with discipline, cohesion and winning st...

Of use: "This course is for those who are currently negotiating with management or those in the branch who want to learn more about the negotiating process."

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1288...

I still can't understand why "getting a sustainable HE funding system in place" isn't a/the KPI for all VCs.
Instead, we get constant shrugging of shoulders while saying "my pockets are so stuffed full of cash that I can barely raise my shoulders. So really, I'm the one who deserves some sympathy!"

Book now for @sophiebishop.bsky.social on April 29th in Edinburgh:

Looks interesting:

Restorative Radio WMMT’s mission is to be a 24 hour voice of mountain people’s music, culture, and social issues to benefit our communities and the Appalachian region as a whole.

@prisonculture.bsky.social Calls From Home is about to come on.

Restorative Radio – WMMT 88.7 share.google/3kH6fQ8wJPn6...

30 people made the decision to award the Palantir contract.

@unison.org.uk represent 1.3m people and the BMA all doctors.

It's time the Labour government cleared up Tory mess and remove Palantir from NHS.

Techno-Negative A radical history of technology told through acts of resistance, not progressThe history of technology is often told as a history of progress, moving optimis...

For those interested in the full story, Thomas has a great book out this month, Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine:

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...

Effective negotiating & bargaining skills: 30, June, 1, & 2, July 2026, North West Region, In Person, Manchester This course is for those who are currently negotiating with management or those in the branch who want to learn more about the negotiating process. Negotiating with discipline, cohesion and winning st...

Of use: "This course is for those who are currently negotiating with management or those in the branch who want to learn more about the negotiating process."

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1288...

An opportune time to remind yall media and journalism scholars that there isn’t much scholarship out there on The Onion and I would love a pitch for a monograph or edited collection on the subject…

Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.

Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.

Platforms and the Planet Developing a critical understanding of environmental responsibility and accountability of digital platforms, Platforms and the Planet focuses on the environmental responsibility of the so-called Big Tech, their digital media platforms and their role in the sustainability transition as a discursive, material, and ethical question.

Hot off the press:

Platforms and the Planet
Big Tech, Digital Platforms and Environmental Responsibility
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen|Mervi Pantti|Olga Dovbysh

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I'm sorry to hear this.

How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.

1. Amazon has built powerful pricing algorithms that have learned how to steer prices upward — not just on Amazon, but across the web. I have a new piece on how these algorithms work, and how they help sustain Amazon’s monopoly.

Felt like old times on Twitter, really.

The other day I saw someone on here say something like "it's called negotiating, read a book, libs!"

Thread here:

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020.

She missed these trials by a few months.

One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here.

I feel such a hole inside.

In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

Celebrating women who slogged through phd land in the era when women were actively discouraged and rarely admitted.

How I will always remember the internet:

An ancient artifact on display in a museum: a clear glass vessel in the shape of a dove, mostly full of a clear liquid, with a small heap of pinkish substance in the bottom, and dark substances in the head and tail.

Roman blown-glass unguentarium or balsamarium in the shape of a dove, found at Rovasenda near Vercelli in N Italy, sealed since its manufacture about 1900 years ago, containing the remains of a cosmetic and the liquid in which it was once suspended. One would have snapped off the tail to open.
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lol, ok, you have my trust.

I always think I will read this book at some point, but then I don't. Maybe will just watch the movie!

oh, cool- thank you!

this looks good- thanks!!

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