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Paul Nowak (TUC) on Uber’s ‘dynamic pay’: «Let’s call this out for what it is: exploitation by the algorithm.»

Drivers from countries including NL have gone to court. Cansu Safak (WIE): «With no transparency over the conditions they work under, drivers have been forced to turn to data protection law as the only remaining route to assert their rights.» https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/03/dynamic-pay-uber-tuc

(Some background by @pluralistic@mamot.fr on Uber’s ‘algorithmic wage discrimination’ here: https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/06/empiricism-washing/)

«Asking an AI chatbot a question consumes a great deal more energy than finding the answer via simple web search or calculator. It adds extra demand for no good reason, he says, a bit like driving to the shops in an SUV instead of riding your bike.» https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/13/ai-datacentres-environmental-impacts

Oud nieuws (1934): kinderen van school gestuurd omdat zij weigeren het Wilhelmus te zingen. «Het gevolg van deze strafmaatregel was o.a. dat zich op den dag, dat de kinderen naar huis gezonden werden, eenige relletjes voordeden.» https://oost-online.nl/oud-nieuws-weigering-wilhelmus-te-zingen/