Tyler Riordan

I listened to this a little while ago. Thanks for sharing your story Malcolm

Assuming I didn't have prior knowledge, a 101 on Epistemology

Even in a Blizzard, Food Delivery in New York City Continues

“Even though Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared a state of emergency that banned all but essential vehicles like ambulances, police cars and utility trucks from the roads, the 80,000 deliveristas were among those exempt.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/n...

HungryPanda delivery drivers say police contacted family back home Riders embroiled in a dispute over pay and conditions with food delivery company HungryPanda in Sydney say Chinese police have asserted pressure back home to stop them protesting.

The big pander?

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Food delivery riders brave Australia’s ‘brutal’ 40C heat so we don’t have to – but who’s protecting them? Australia’s gig workers should not be forced to choose between their health and a paycheque when temperatures soar, experts say

In the lead up to Extreme Heat Awareness Day, I spoke to @australia.theguardian.com about some of the risks #fooddelivery riders face
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Real estate agents in Australia using apps that leave millions of lease documents at risk, digital researcher says Exclusive: ‘This is a blatant and disturbing disregard for the law and for people’s security,’ digital rights advocate says

"An analysis of seven rent platforms ... revealed millions of leasing documents could be accessed by threat actors."

Thanks to negligent privacy practices, it is easy to access troves of highly sensitive information stored on rental management platforms www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Ugh. Apparently this is the approach of the phd students who are getting extra publications out and seem to be scooping up the few early career academic jobs

At least you learnt a new word

And everyone is gifting all this data to these corporations

Time to stop the rough ride for food delivery workers Food delivery workers and other ‘platform’ workers are sitting in a dangerous blind spot of British employment law

"rates of e-bike theft are rising fast... A recent survey by the Workers’ Observatory, a gig work monitoring group involving workers and researchers from St Andrews and Edinburgh Universities, found that 40 per cent of riders had bikes stolen..."

www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Higher ed workers in australia, the NTEU are looking for stories about how LLMs/"AI" have affected your work and working conditions. Are you spending more time marking, but receiving the same time allocation? Do you have the flexibility/autonomy you need to design appropriate assessment?

Sign me up!

How artificial intelligence uncouples hard work from fair wages through ‘surveillance pay’ practices—and how to fix it How surveillance pay practices work, where they are increasingly deployed in the U.S. economy, and policy recommendations to ensure pay fairness and transparency.

Algorithmic Wage Discrimination is spreading beyond 'Gig' work:

Healthcare, Customer Service, & Logistics bosses are buying AI products that set compensation structures & wages using real time data. @wilneida.bsky.social & I did an audit & here are our findings
equitablegrowth.org/how-artifici...

Funny how examples like this don't come up in productivity roundtable discussions and media reporting focus on the need to "embrace AI" #auspol

"Uber's response was simply to cancel the order and offer him a discount on his next order.

News4 reached out to Uber to see if they know anything about where the delivery driver was taken and what the company's policy is when drivers get detained while on the job. Uber has not responded."

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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, The Australia Institute, Canberra, Australia

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Delivery riders at mercy of algorithms and immigration raids Migrants denied right to work turn to exploitative delivery apps to earn cash, but the government is cracking down

'The food delivery sector is no longer just a site of informal economic survival for precarious migrants' - @nandosigona.bsky.social & @stefano-piemontese.bsky.social on 'a new mode of migration governance' merging algorithmic control and immigration enforcement www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

Good article. Love that final statement.

On the NZ context
"Rather than preventing the misclassification of workers, the law changes may make it easier. They do little to address the challenges vulnerable contractors face, fail to tackle the structural problems of platform work, & disregard how other countries are modernising their laws."

I take that back, @cosminpopan.bsky.social found the words bsky.app/profile/cosm...

No words

What has disappointed me most is how the majority of peers have taken it into their stride without question

Great article Samantha. I like how accessible you have made the issues, it's a good starting point for those who are not across the problem. I will send it to my mum

Book Launch, 'The mechanic and the luddite' Jathan Sadowski in conversation with Lizzie O'Shea and Chris O'Neill for the launch of 'The Mechanic and the Luddite'.

Melbourne Folks! I will be hosting a book launch to celebrate The Mechanic and the Luddite! Come hear me chat about the book with Lizzie O'Shea and Chris O'Neill — and have a free drink!
• August 14th, 6pm, Victorian Trades Hall
• Register for free: events.humanitix.com/sadowkski-th...

Yikes. That's a scary thought. We've still got a long way to go. Solidarity, hopefully it gets better soon

Interesting that they added the sub-contracting clause

NZ’s new AI strategy is long on ‘economic opportunity’ but short on managing ethical and social risk Most New Zealanders are worried about AI, but the government’s new strategy has little to reassure them. Emulating the EUs approach to managing risk might help.

This is a clear sighted analysis of how lacking in substance and recognition of AI risks, the NZ government's new AI strategy is. theconversation.com/nzs-new-ai-s...

Congratulations Jathan. Great project too

Our Special Issue of WOLG has been published--New Worlds of Logistical Labour: Space, places, technologies, workers

A big thank you to our incredible contributors and co-editors @drtombarnes.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social for making this happen 🎉

www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

Ouch