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also got my first set of contact lenses to try out, quite nice so far

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ooh great, replacing the frame on my broken glasses unexpectedly did fall under warranty

hey at least I have no difficulty touching my eye (it's important for contacts)

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@deadsuperhero he shouldn't need to be forced and people harmed in order for these changes, somebody with that power in the architecture of a theoretically infinite social space should pre-empt or listen to people pre-empting these situations before they become situations. This is definitely the "too little too late" network for so long as it's one guy at the top is calling all the shots based on whatever works for him. None of this is new problems :ACNH_Sighing:

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Quote posts and broader search capabilities here without more effective privacy and moderation tools being delivered first will be insufferable very quickly. You can search for this toot and quote me on that later.

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You know what *really* pisses me off about Eugen's announcement?

That he *knows* that this is a sensitive topic, and yet he couldn't be fucked to include any details about whether it will, for instance, respect consent.

fuck i thought this implementation would be easy but i have to do actual code architecting aaaa

I did find an article by the same author which is very interesting as well,
Drivers of Disruption: How Jakarta's Mobility Platform Drivers Understand, Transform
and Resist the Algorithms that Manage Them [(Qadri, 2022)](dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/1)

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:boosts_ok_gay:​ Unfortunately wasn't able to find the full text for this anywhere, even sci-hub etc just have a single-page pdf with just the abstract. Emailed the author, but if anyone could find it that'd be greatly appreciated! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3375627

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Found after one of the passages in the article ["Algorithmized but not Atomized? How Digital Platforms Engender New Forms of Worker Solidarity in Jakarta" (Qadri, 2020)](dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/337)

Which analyses 'tuyul apps', third-party apps that enhance the gigworker's official apps in favor of the workers

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ahh also found the article I read recently that highlights some of the digital challenges modern unionization faces pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/alg

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:boosts_ok_gay:​ Research on digital unions 

I'm looking for research on union(like) structures made possible by digitalization, surely this presents opportunity for novel ways to organize, different from the standard union model.

But I'm having a hard time finding info on this, or why it has/hasn't worked out (yet)

> Our digital tools are new, the forms of work that they mediate are new, and many of
the challenges they raise are new. But, in a world where the atomization of work continues
to be used against digital workers, let’s not forget an old rallying cry that has served us well:
workers of the world, unite

all from ["Why the digital gig economy needs co-ops and unions"](ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:11c7)

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> [B]uilding on Gina Neff’s work so that this so-called ‘venture labour’ -the “explicit expression of entrepreneurial values by non-entrepreneurs" does not become the norm. In other words, workers recognizing that they
are receiving all of the risks of entrepreneurship, but few of the rewards

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> But if people see themselves as workers rather than entrepreneurs, then we have more possibilities for workers to collaborative attempt to help each other through cooperative horizontal relations

this is why everyone that calls themselves an "entrepreneur" is not to be trusted tbh

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