I would just love to attend:

Today: cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...

"personal political opinions"

Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

Unionized workers with @kickstarterunited.org are poised to strike if the crowdfunding platform's management doesn't approve their new contract. The union has demanded a four-day workweek, minimum living wage salaries, and protections against generative AI encroachment.

It’s the responsibility and the duty of anyone with a public platform to keep reminding everybody that civilisations flourish by collaboration not hostility and prejudice. This includes intellectuals who keep to their lanes in generating knowledge. Make no mistake, this is absolutely your lane.

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

On Thursday, @workersobservatory.org will run a workshop for on-demand couriers in Edinburgh. The workshop will explore how these workers can shape demands for inclusion in the city's Fair Work Charter and FW consultation.

Pull up the ladder, eh?

A wise man once said, “you get paid more for linear regression if you call it machine learning and data science.”

Enormous victory for @aaup.org in aaup v Rubio www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

To read:

I didn't realise "day drunk" was a "warrior ethos."

I felt like a digital sociology feed was missing? I brushed up my coding skills and created one. It still needs some improvements but you can find it here - it should aggregate (by keywords) posts about digital sociology, surveillance, digital capitalism, digital labour... and so on. ⬇️

🔔 freelance researcher call At @carefultrouble.bsky.social we're looking for freelance researchers to deliver a literature search on the impacts of AI adoption, looking at worker safety, infrastructure resilience, and environmental safety www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...

On Thursday, @workersobservatory.org will run a workshop for on-demand couriers in Edinburgh. The workshop will explore how these workers can shape demands for inclusion in the city's Fair Work Charter and FW consultation.

This looks good: CFP: THE FIRST SYMPOSIUM AT THE HUB FOR CRITICAL CYCLING STUDIES www.bikestudies.ugent.be/cfp/ cc @edi.bike

We said good-bye to our best friend on Friday and, in truth, I'm still a bit of a mess. She had a great life in Scotland and I'm always grateful for that.

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Thanks to @edi.bike and @edinburghminute.bsky.social for picking up news of the @workersobservatory.org workshop this week: We Deserve Fair Work - Workshop for Delivery Riders in Edinburgh luma.com/3r5hmptg

Glad to have signed this. You can sign too: actionnetwork.org/petitions/wo...

If you have a dog, take more photos. Take more videos. You will want them.

I'm going to get off the internet for a bit. Take care of each other.

The "economy", or whatever that means at the moment:

The Royal Geographical Society @rgsibg.bsky.social is hosting a discussion (in person & online) on the far right and climate policy on Tues 30th Sept. Details here - www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Call for Papers: Locating Power & Resistance in Global AI Production Networks AAG 2026 Annual Meeting AI is not just “in the cloud.” It relies on global supply chains, with power concentrated in a few countries and corporations. fair.work/en/fw/blog/c... #AAG2026

Someone said to me the other day "Well, even if they get in, Farage won't be able to enact his plans..." and I really think this line of response is not up to the current reality. We're so desperate for the trouble to be indefinitely delayed, but it's here and has been.

Robot umpires are getting called up to the big leagues next season. Major League Baseball's competition committee has approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System in the major leagues in 2026.

I had heard this closed but didn't realise...

The 2026 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies takes place June 3-5 in Winnipeg. This year's theme is Solidarity Unbound: Work and Labour in an Age of Intersecting Crises. Check out the CfP for proposal deadlines. cawls.ca/en/2026-annu... #canlab #LabourStudies

Another, more decent and less biased journalist could tell a very different story from the same facts. Instead, the BBC’s coverage of the UK’s #asylum system is crafted to pour fuel on the fire of anti-immigration Farageism www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The AI model appears intelligent only because thousands of humans have already evaluated and shaped its outputs ... Their labor produces the value that makes AI systems profitable, yet the “intelligence” is attributed not to workers but to the machine itself." antipodeonline.org/2025/07/30/f...

Queen of Swords is less a biography & more the record of Jazmina Barrera being haunted by the ghost/spirit/idea of Mexican author Elena Garro. Told in weaving vignettes drawn from deep research in Garro's archives, you'll probably feel haunted by the end too. Out on 11/11

INDIA: Urban Company IPO leaves gig workers fearing tougher conditions www.context.news/digital-divi...

I realise this is a very small problem in the world of problems, but Teams "unhid" five years of hidden Teams Channels and I just... Trying to re-hide them also not working. Love this stuff for us.

Just to say: thanks to people who become dentists and who do that job really well. You rock.

🌨️Europe can’t rely on private tech giants for public services. EPSU is calling for worker-owned & public clouds, full implementation of the AI Act, and workers’ say in digitalisation. Read more in Euractiv’s coverage of our letter to the Commission: dlvr.it/TNDnhl

The economy:

Anyway, someone really needs to do some due diligence on those "5000 new jobs" figures that have been announced, because it sure won't be 5000 people working at data centres

Seems like a good time not to harm your universities, but instead gather academic support here, build a vision and economic plan to deliver: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Amazon.com Inc. exercised “overwhelming control” over subcontracted drivers it claimed weren’t its employees, US labor board attorneys told a judge Monday". www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Upsetting: edinburghdot.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

A Fair Gig Work Agenda for the City and Nation: workersobservatory.org/a-fair-gig-w...

The second portion of this great convo is now available!

This is a huge win for free speech and a massive credit to the millions of people who expressed their outrage and sent a clear signal with their voices and their wallets. And it's a credit to Bob Iger and Disney as well that in the end they did the right thing. ca.news.yahoo.com/jimmy-kimmel...

#Edinburgh folks: free hackathon for 15-18 year olds on Sat 27th Sept. Build a project in a day. Free, beginner-friendly, and open to secondary students. Food, drinks, snacks, and swag are provided. At @codebasetech.bsky.social, Castle Terrace. Sign up at: lochdin-edinburgh.netlify.app Please share!

September 22 - A Large Pizza with Pepperoni and a Union On this day in Labor History the year was 2006. Eleven Domino’s pizza delivery drivers in Pensacola, Florida formed what is thought to be the first ever union of pizza delivery drivers. The American Union of Pizza Delivery Drivers won recogn

True in the UK too...