Uber and Lyft are playing chicken with lawmakers—and the rideshare giants keep winning
Why don’t localities stand their ground against rideshare companies?
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Private prison company GEO pivoted to tech, and it’s raking in hundreds of millions
Rights advocates say the electronic monitoring program is really a kind of “e-carceration."
$7,000 a day for five catchphrases: the TikTokers pretending to be NPCs
The videos borrow tactics honed for years by online erotic workers.
A DoorDash worker cursed at her over a $5 tip. Then she learned what they’re paid
A viral video becomes a lesson about the grim economics of gig work.
Exclusive: TSA to expand its facial recognition program to over 400 airports
AI-ethics advocates say there’s evidence the program is already violating travelers’ consent.
Four more people just died in an e-bike fire. If nothing changes, they won’t be the last
After yet another deadly lithium battery fire, why isn't more being done to prevent them?
Ron DeSantis’ deepfakes of Trump and Fauci are a kind of ‘fascist realism’
Deepfakes like these reinforce a grim new reality.
I asked ChatGPT to contest my parking ticket. What followed was a thing of beauty
The judge called its defense ‘persuasive.’
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.
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.
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 AI startup erasing call center worker accents
New software can make overseas call center workers sound American — but at what cost?
Can ‘chief vibes officers’ keep things positive amid the crypto collapse?
The goal is to shore up the vibes as prices go down.
Jay-Z’s bitcoin school met with skepticism in his former housing project
“People looking to make money, not lose it.”
‘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.
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.
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.
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.
Gig workers of the world are uniting
The sunniest of platform capitalist narratives can’t overcome a simple reality: Workers fight back.
The workers who sued Uber and won
Former Uber driver James Farrar on why we must treat digital rights as worker rights.
