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Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025)
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Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs: When your shitty boss is a shitty app and you're not even allowed to call yourself an employee.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Object permanence: Correcting the Disneyland Railroad's Morse code; Breathalyzer source-code; Teaching Little Brother to math students; Arson attacks on Ferguson's Black churches; Tom Lehrer in the public domain.
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Continue reading "Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on October 23, 2025October 23, 2025Categories UncategorizedTags accountability sinks, ai, amazon, bossware, cctv, chickenization, dair, dair institute, dan davies, delivery service platform, digital whips, disciplinary technology, dsp, empiricism washing, enshittification, guillotine watch, labor, logistics, mentor, netradyne, rabbit scanners, shitty technology adoption curve, surveillance, taylorism, twiddling1 Comment on Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025)
Pluralistic: Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too) (26 Nov 2024)
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Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too): Neotaylorists wielding digital calipers, breaking the law.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023
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Continue reading "Pluralistic: Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too) (26 Nov 2024)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on November 26, 2024December 2, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags ai, algorithmic management, alvaro bedoya, bossware, digital phrenology, dr seuss, ftc, neotaylorism, sentiment analysis, shitty technology adoption curve, shitty technology adoption curve alvaro bedoya, snake oil, speech emotion recognition, taylorism, Veena Dubal, workers7 Comments on Pluralistic: Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too) (26 Nov 2024)
Pluralistic: Wellness surveillance makes workers unwell (15 Mar 2024)
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Wellness surveillance makes workers unwell: As ever, the important thing isn't what the gadget does, it's who it does it for and who it does it to.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023
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Continue reading "Pluralistic: Wellness surveillance makes workers unwell (15 Mar 2024)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on March 15, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags ai, automation unemployment, bossware, disciplinary technology, health, labor, luddism, parenting, surveillance, taylorism, wellness, workplace surveillance1 Comment on Pluralistic: Wellness surveillance makes workers unwell (15 Mar 2024)
Pluralistic: Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes (12 Apr 2023)
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Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes: Twiddled to death through algorithmic wage discrimination.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Continue reading "Pluralistic: Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes (12 Apr 2023)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 12, 2023July 30, 2023Categories UncategorizedTags algorithmic wage discrimination, ants vs pickers, app boss, App Drivers and Couriers Union, brian merchant, casinoization, ccpa, cottage industry, countertwiddling, doordash, enshittification, gamblification, gdpr, giant teddy bears, great resignation, labor, moral economy, para, reverse centaurs, scholarship, shitty technology adoption curve, skinner boxes, steampunk, taylorism, taylorization, tuyul, twiddler, Veena Dubal, wage discrimination1 Comment on Pluralistic: Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes (12 Apr 2023)
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