Fast Company • May 2023 I asked ChatGPT to contest my parking ticket. What followed was a thing of beauty The judge called its defense ‘persuasive.’
Fast Company • May 2023 Meredith Whittaker says AI’s biggest risk isn’t ‘consciousness’—it’s the corporations that control them The Signal president on why labor organizing still matters.
Fast Company • May 2023 Ex-Googlers blast ‘AI godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton’s silence on fired AI experts Where was Hinton when Google fired experts for warning AI could harm marginalized people?
Fast Company • April 2023 Can existing laws regulate AI? The federal government and experts say yes Agencies aren’t going to give AI special treatment just because it's new.
Fast Company • April 2023 A California bill would regulate automated decisions. But is its definition of AI too narrow? Assembly Bill 331 would create rules for machines that make 'consequential decisions.'
Fast Company • April 2023 Goodbye Silicon Valley, hello . . . Arlington? For the Pentagon, layoffs are a once-in-a-generation chance to snap up tech talent.
Fast Company • March 2023 NYC is about to regulate AI in hiring. Critics say the new law doesn’t do much Why Local Law 144 isn't just a missed opportunity, but dangerous.
Fast Company • January 2023 Amazon was cited for ‘serious’ worker safety violations. Why was the fine only $60,000? How Amazon gets off with a slap on the wrist for systematically endangering its workers.
The Guardian • November 2022 Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them Tech-savvy users are rallying around Mastodon — here's how it works.
The Guardian • August 2022 The AI startup erasing call center worker accents New software can make overseas call center workers sound American — but at what cost?
The Guardian • July 2022 Can ‘chief vibes officers’ keep things positive amid the crypto collapse? The goal is to shore up the vibes as prices go down.
The Guardian • June 2022 Jay-Z’s bitcoin school met with skepticism in his former housing project “People looking to make money, not lose it.”
The Guardian • May 2022 ‘This can’t be real’: Grubhub promotion turns New York City restaurants into a ‘war zone’ A food delivery platform Grubhub went badly awry – and proved there’s really no such thing as a free lunch.
The Guardian • May 2022 Elon Musk praises Chinese workers for ‘burning the 3am oil’ – here’s what that really looks like How Elon Musk makes Chinese workers put in hours that would be unacceptable elsewhere.
The Guardian • February 2022 What did I just buy? I tried to use New York’s first NFT vending machine How the world’s first NFT vending machine lets you lose money in person.
Curbed • January 2022 E-bike batteries are setting a record-breaking number of fires every year The people most in danger are New York City's delivery workers.
The Nation • June 2021 Gig workers of the world are uniting The sunniest of platform capitalist narratives can’t overcome a simple reality: Workers fight back.
Dissent Magazine • May 2021 The workers who sued Uber and won Former Uber driver James Farrar on why we must treat digital rights as worker rights.
Vulture • February 2021 What Nomadland gets wrong about gig workers It feels less like artistic license than a betrayal of workers’ reality.
The Nation • November 2020 Can American labor survive Prop 22? Prop 22 marks a dangerous new phase in big tech’s onslaught against workers.