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„Seit Bolt in Zürich gestartet ist, liefern sich die Plattformen einen massiven Preiskampf. Das führt zu Preisen, die manchmal sogar unter dem Niveau des ÖVs sind“, Jenny Bargetzi ( @tsueri-ch.bsky.social ). Nun wehren sich die Fahrer:innen mit einem Verein! hoerkombinat.podigee.io/s1e87-neue-e...

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Der Menschenrechtskommissar des #Europarat|es kritisiert in einem Brandbrief an Bundesinnenminister #Dobrindt deutsche Behörden für ihr Vorgehen bei #GazaDemos. Der Vorwurf: Polizeigewalt und Unterdrückung der Meinungsfreiheit: www.lto.de/recht/nachri...

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Am Donnerstag findet vor dem Arbeitsgericht Berlin die Verhandlung über #Lohnraub beim Lieferdienst #Wolt statt. Es klagt einen Kurierin der über 3000 EUR von einem Subunternehmer vorenthalten wurden. Mehrere Initiativen rufen zu einer Kundgebung um 11 Uhr vor dem Gericht auf.

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Am Donnerstag findet vor dem Arbeitsgericht Berlin die Verhandlung über #Lohnraub beim Lieferdienst #Wolt statt. Es klagt einen Kurierin der über 3000 EUR von einem Subunternehmer vorenthalten wurden. Mehrere Initiativen rufen zu einer Kundgebung um 11 Uhr vor dem Gericht auf.

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🔥Kundgebung gegen die Eröffnung des #Amazon Towers🔥 Montag, 16.6., 10:30 Uhr An diesem vermeintlich feierlichen Tag wird auch Wegner nach F-Hain kommen. Aber was haben Tower, Konzerne o. die CDU in unsrer Stadt verloren? Was haben #Gentrifizierung & Ausbeutung mit feiern zu tun? Absolut gar nix!

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"What’s striking now is that, two years later, the layoffs haven’t stopped, even as the tech sector surges ahead. If anything, they’ve become routine; embedded in quarterly planning cycles, not just as emergency responses."

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"Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany" with Esra Özyürek and Alice von Bieberstein / 19. June 2025 at Spore Initiative, Berlin

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💥 New article: Labour and migration in the games industry: circulation of workers and struggles across Brazilian and British contexts, with André Campos Rocha and Jamie Woodcock in Globalizations journal. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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In Berlin, Friday, June 13, 8:00 pm, I will speak about my book The Slave Ship: A Human History at the Schwarze Risse Bookstore, sponsored by my German publisher, Assoziation A, who published The Many-Headed Hydra and will also publish Freedom Ship. Join us! kontrapolis.info/15884/

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We have two jobs going at Leuphana University's Centre for Digital Cultures, one PostDoc and one PhD position. Both are involved in the Climate Futures in Digital Cultures research field we are building up. Deadline 29th June! Feel free to get in touch if interested! Links in comment.

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Norwegian police suspects Rumanian gangs are organizing the couriers working for Foodora and Wolt in Oslo. They recruit workers, set up companies, provide them with cars, and funnel their earnings to their own accounts. www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/me...

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Die Tesla-Aktie stürzt ein. Der Protest von #TeslaTakedown wirkt. Sollte der Konsumstreik auf andere Tech-Plattformen ausgeweitet werden? Das frage ich mich in meiner aktuellen @freitag.de-Kolumne. (Spoiler: nein)

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1̦̈0 S͚̊́C̭̜OR͓̦ͧE̞̭S AGͮA̿ͦI̙NST̛̐͂ T̖͚ͪEͨC̟͉͉H̲͛ FÀ̀̉SC̟I̮̗͠SM Call for artistic projects: instructions, scores, how-tos, interventions and practices against tech fascism Grants from €1,500 to €7,000

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"Modern Times: Emanzipation – Macht – Technik" ✏️ Call for Papers in der @prokla.bsky.social ✏️ Deadline ist der 7. Juli 2025 prokla.de/index.php/PR...

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Online Lecture: Silicon Valley Imperialism Thur, May 22nd, 17.15 CEST Erin McElroy maps the processes of gentrification, racial dispossession, and economic predation that drove the development of Silicon Valley and how that logic has become manifest in postsocialist Romania. tinyurl.com/yqdxa9gm

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Online Lecture: Silicon Valley Imperialism Thur, May 22nd, 17.15 CEST Erin McElroy maps the processes of gentrification, racial dispossession, and economic predation that drove the development of Silicon Valley and how that logic has become manifest in postsocialist Romania. tinyurl.com/yqdxa9gm

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Great movie: "Zero Fucks Given" portrays the life and grind of a Ryanair flight attendant in Europe. A gloomy film, but a good picture of the realities of workers in aviation today.

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"Verlag und Herausgeberin bedauern die Fehler" 🥺🥺

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"What we’re witnessing with this new government is a project of right-wing restoration, mirroring similar shifts in other Western countries, & in many ways echoing the realignment in the U.S.: a reassertion of ethno-identity politics, wrapped in a language of political pragmatism – and 'normalcy.'"

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SILICON LANDSCAPES. Imaginationen, Materialitäten und (Geo-)Politiken eines Rohstoffs 🗓️ Workshop vom 22. - 23.5.25  📍 IfEE, Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. 40-41, 10117 Berlin  Restplätze: www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/das-insti...

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Very sad 😢

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SILICON LANDSCAPES. Imaginationen, Materialitäten und (Geo-)Politiken eines Rohstoffs 🗓️ Workshop vom 22. - 23.5.25  📍 IfEE, Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. 40-41, 10117 Berlin  Restplätze: www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/das-insti...

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Ein Bild aus der Vorgeschichte des "Silicon Saxony"... Wir organisieren einen kleinen Workshop zu Halbleitern und unterschiedlichen Silicon Landscapes, von kalifornischen Tälern über sächsisches Tiefland bis in die österreichischen Alpen: www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/das-insti...

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Was ist los mit der NZZ? Ist sie tatsächlich zu weit nach rechts abgedriftet? Und falls ja, aus ideologischen Gründen oder aus eiskaltem Marktkalkül? In einer aufwendigen Recherche haben wir versucht, Antworten auf diese Fragen zu finden.

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I wrote about the police killing of Lorenz A. - a case that lays bare police impunity and the blind spots of German media. Subscribe to my Substack to read the full article. open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...

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Für die FAS hab ich über KI-generierte Bildwelten der Rücksichtslosigkeit und das Bündnis von Techoligarchie und autoritärer Staatsmacht geschrieben zeitung.faz.net/fas/feuillet...

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"Contesting Digital Labor: Resistance, counter-uses, and new directions for research" - Call for Papers for the #INDL8 conference, extended until May 5th: indl-8.sciencesconf.org

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"And asked whether he thought Mr. Zuckerberg was pulling his money because of the president’s focus on eliminating D.E.I. initiatives, Mr. Cook replied, “I have no comment on that.”"

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Our news bit.ly/PJ_April25 is on the Special Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation, Vol 19, Iss 1, evaluating perceptions of the ‘tech worker’ in historical and contemporary social science debates, highlighting their contradictory position in a contemporary context. @scienceopen.bsky.social

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The Politics of Critical Theory: A Conversation with Alex Demirović Wednesday, May 14, 19:00 CEST, Webinar/Zoom Register now! criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-po...

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The city of Munich currently debates a minimum fare (Mindestpreis) for ride-hailing apps like #Uber and #Bolt. City council members want to raise the social standards for drivers and protect traditional taxis. The city council will decide on the proposal by social democrats / greens on April 29th.

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In a few weeks, Skype is going the way of other early internet icons like AOL Instant Messenger and Friendster. But before it shuts down, we asked Rest of World readers to share their favorite memories of using the video-calling service restofworld.org/2025/skype-s...

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Five years ago I wrote an essay about the Asparagus Queens and what they say about race and politics in Germany. artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/the-que...

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Lyft will enter the European Market. After it operated exclusively in North America since 2012, the company just agreed to buy the taxi app FREENOW from BMW and Mercedes for $197M.

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This is literally where we are.

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"Abetted by social media and rising racial tensions following the murder of George Floyd, tech workers emerged as an unforeseen challenge. [...] These revolts threatened not merely contractual agreements but the very covenant that bound Silicon Valley to the military-industrial complex."

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Die April-Ausgabe der express Zeitschrift (Zeitung für sozialistische Betriebs- und Gewerkschaftsarbeit) ist erschienen und frei verfügbar:

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To what extent can tech workers mobilize as part of the broader working class? This is the question I take up in my new paper "Solidarity across the platform: mobilizing high-wage and low-wage workers in the tech sector" -- just out in Work in the Global Economy 1/n

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remember how Berlin citizens voted to take back the city from corporate landlords in 2021? it was an emancipatory promise many applauded. since then, corporate landlords increased their stronghold on the city to 25% of housing stok, and w it, rents went up by 9% annually.

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Corey Robin on the tariffs: ‘Where McKinley used the tariff to unite the masses and the classes, Trump’s tariffs – and the markets they’re roiling – threaten to drive a wedge through his coalition…’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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