All Content from Business Insider | Mamdani is cracking down on food delivery app junk fees in NYC by Allie Kelly

Affordable housing has become a central part of NYC Zohran Mamdani's agenda.Bloomberg/Getty Images

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a nearly $1 million settlement with food delivery app HungryPanda.The junk fee case follows a settlement with Uber Eats and other apps over worker pay violations.The administration says it will continue taking on corporations to protect consumers and businesses.At the Prospect Park Zoo's red panda exhibit, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a crackdown on the fees food-delivery apps charge to businesses and consumers.

The press conference's location was a nod to the food delivery platform HungryPanda, which largely services Asian restaurants. The administration alleged that the app illegally overcharged hundreds of these businesses through junk fees, and announced a $875,000 settlement on Wednesday. More than 380 restaurants will receive relief money, the mayor said, after the app "bamboozled hardworking New Yorkers."

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Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/mamdani-nyc-food-delivery-app-fees-crackdown-settlement-2026-4

#cost-of-the-city #delivery-apps #economy #gig-workers #newyork

Hell Outsources Torture: Demons Now Gig Workers

Pay based on scream volume. Veteran demons are not amused.

#AltAndPaperEN #Gig Economy #Work Reform #ShortComic

The Guardian | Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the ‘taskers’ scraping the internet for Meta-owned AI firm by Aisha Down

Scale AI gig workers describe desperation of using people’s personal profiles and copyrighted work to train AI

Tens of thousands of people have been paid by a company part-owned by Meta to train AI by combing Instagram accounts, harvesting copyrighted work and transcribing pornographic soundtracks, the Guardian can reveal.

Scale AI, 49%-controlled by Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire, has recruited experts across fields such as medicine, physics and economics – putatively to refine top-level artificial intelligence systems through a platform called Outlier. “Become the expert that AI learns from,” it says on its site, advertising flexible work for people with strong credentials.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/07/meta-scale-ai-social-media-technology

#meta #socialmedia #technology #ai #gig-workers

Another shot from the nee_nah and Optical Collusion set at BYOB.

Beautiful music, compelling and immersive visuals, what's not to like!

#photography #music #concerts #gig #Berlin #Germany

https://leonard.earth/2026/04/07/nee_nah-and-optical-collusion-byob-berlin-ii/

TRANSGENRE Volume III, Free, All Ages, Sat 23 May, Unibar, Adelaide

12:00pm, Sat 23 May, 2026
UniBar Adelaide, SA

TRANSGENRE – the largest grassroots initiative celebrating trans and non-binary voices in Australian music – is making its South Australian debut with TRANSGENRE Volume III. Free and all-ages, the festival’s biggest edition yet features a STACKED lineup of local icons!

SUNSICK DAISY
OSCAR THE WILD
PLACEMENT
STORMY-LOU
PITY LIPS
EMERAULD
PEARLY STARS
KILLED BY CUPID
THEMPATH
CYBERFAE

On top of all that, TRANSGENRE Volume III will feature stalls hosted by queer and trans artists/makers, a community resource hub, all the merch you could ever dream of, and a licensed bar and kitchen!

Proudly presented by Feast Festival, and supported by the Department of Human Services.

Is #Pinterestmarketing a fit for your #business or #sidehustle or #freelance #gig? Here's an interview I did some time ago that I think is still very relevant today and might help: https://boldly.blue/pinterest-marketing-with-sherisse-marie/

#pinterest #onlinemarketing #socialmediamarketing #marketing

Renato Neto, Cleverson Silva & Rubem Farias playing virtuoso jazz fusion. I've been getting into the genre lately!

#jazz #gig #Stockholm

All Content from Business Insider | Inside the OpenAI project where freelancers train ChatGPT on everything from farming to commercial flying by Shubhangi Goel

OpenAI is training ChatGPT to specialize in jobs such as ranching and agriculture.Jim Craigmyle/Getty Images

OpenAI's ChatGPT is being trained to understand niche fields such as animal husbandry and aviation.Contractors from various jobs were directed to develop tasks that reflect real work."We all were aware that we were basically training AI to replace us," one contractor said.ChatGPT can code and tutor. Now, project documents obtained by Business Insider show how contractors working on an OpenAI project are helping the system to become ever more specialized in niche areas like animal husbandry, agriculture, music composition, and even commercial flying.

Under Project Stagecraft, as it is internally known at data-labeling startup Handshake AI, freelancers are being paid at least $50 an hour to create materials that will be used by ChatGPT to understand various occupations, one contractor told Business Insider.

Handshake's OpenAI work included soil scientists and sculptorsOccupation TitleBucketCommercial PilotsAviationMusic Directors and ComposersArts, Media & DesignGeoscientists, except Hydrologists and GeographersScience, Environment & Specialized techniciansSoil and Plant ScientistsScience, Environment & Specialized techniciansPharmacistsHealthcareFarmers, Ranchers, and other Agricultural ManagersScience, Environment & Specialized techniciansSales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and TravelSales, Marketing, & FundraisingHuman Resource SpecialistsHuman Resources, Training & WorkforceFine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators-Mechanical Engineering Technologists and TechniciansRead and interpretEmergency Medicine PhysicianHealthcareAirfield Operations SpecialistAviationAdvertising and Promotions ManagersSales, Marketing & Fundraising"You work for a theatre that employs local musicians for touring Broadway shows. Use the attached collective bargaining agreement (CBA) excerpt to build a spreadsheet in Excel that can be used by the local music contractor to submit weekly payroll for hired musicians."Read the original article on Business Insider

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-openai-training-niche-occupations-specialized-llm-handshake-data-labeling-2026-4

#ai #gig-economy #openai #chatgpt #projectstagecraft

All Content from Business Insider | The sneaky truth about the wave of AI layoffs by Amanda Hoover

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Tech bosses say AI will make us work less. So far, that's mostly meant fewer of us will be working for them full-time.

Meta cut hundreds of workers last week. Oracle is reportedly considering thousands of layoffs to shore up money for its data center costs. Atlassian cut 10% of its workers this month as it restructured to focus on AI. Block laid off 4,000 employees in February, about 40% of the company. A report from career transition firm Challenger, Gray, and Christmas found that AI has been cited as the rationale behind some 92,000 job cuts at US-based companies since 2023, nearly a two-thirds of which came in 2025.

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Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/sneaky-truth-ai-layoffs-switcheroo-meta-microsoft-2026-3

#ai #careers #gig-economy #layoffs #tech