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Francis Tseng
sabotage, heresy, & traps

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turning a logic against itself, little moments of solidarity, weaponizing contradictions

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Over 12,000 Uber drivers found a way to weaponize the ridesharing platform's restrictive contract in what's possibly the funniest labor strategy of the year. But first: a bit of background. One of the more onerous aspects of the gig economy is its propensity to include arbitration agreements in the terms of service-you know, the very long document no one really reads-governing the rights of its workers.

Uber's Arbitration Policy Comes Back to...

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Today in schadenfreude: 12,501 Uber drivers have filed for individual arbitration, meaning the company is on the hook for millions in arbitrator retainers alone. The drivers are now in court to force Uber to pay up: https://t.co/KvHIJkwS6s

Charlotte Garden on Twitter

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The German left setup a site that let you "search" for Neo-Nazis after fascist demos in Chemnitz. But it a honeypot and a bunch of Nazis search themselves and doxxed themselves and their friends. H/T @_heartsucker https://t.co/kpzIn9WcGa

R.Ⓐ.D on Twitter

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Updated 9 days ago

police officers are not permitted to enter a church while a religious service is taking place... hundreds of pastors and volunteers from across the country have been meeting to maintain the 24/7 service in support of an Armenian family whose asylum claim has been rejected." https://t.co/sScWDheVVH

tmh on Twitter

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Updated 15 days ago

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Woman pretends to be persecuted Trump...

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) came up with a clever way to draw lawmakers' attention to the limitations of facial-recognition technology: it used it to (falsely) identify more than 28 of them as criminals. Lawmakers or breakers?: The ACLU used Amazon's Rekognition platform to compare federal lawmakers' faces with 25,000 publically available mugshots.

Lawmakers will look more closely at...

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