Chris Marsden

@profchrismarsden
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Epic fail in migrating to @profchrismarsden - but that's where I'll be lurking....

[New 📝] Focus so far on the EU’s proposed Platform Work Directive has mostly been on employees misclassified as self-employed, yet the draft contains powerful, broadly well-drafted protections on #algorithmicmanagement — new digital labour rights for individuals & collectives!

These will be be fought hard against by big platforms.

In our new pre-print, @RDBinns, Six Silberman + I analyse and propose specific tweaks to safeguard digital #workersrights.

📄: https://doi.org/jjr2 [🧵/n]

@mikarv @gleemie How much has ECOSOC contributed to the amendments? It's very much the poor cousin of EU co-legislators so could use your expertise?
Which has many many rules...😂
Sigh, they're all on eupolicy....🤔
I used the bird in part to follow journalists and policy makers. I have discovered exactly ONE MEP on this federated universe of social planets so far....
“for all of us tired of both big tech and online trolling, citizens’ social media is our way forward. “
https://theconversation.com/citizens-social-media-can-provide-an-antidote-to-propaganda-and-disinformation-192491
Citizens' social media can provide an antidote to propaganda and disinformation

Citizens’ social media is a form of alternative media that challenges both mainstream media and right-wing propaganda.

The Conversation
@mariafarrell is that him going night clubbing? Or is it 2pm and I'd forgotten what winter is like😂
@sethlazar minus one whole day as you go over the date line...😂 I'm a firm believer in a sleeping pill for the Perth-London long haul
"The most curious aspect of the proposed law is also the most foundational thing about it: the overarching governance arrangement. A single ministry, ISED, is proposed as the de facto regulator for AI in terms of law *and* policy making *and* administration *and* enforcement." https://www.cigionline.org/articles/a-few-questions-about-canadas-artificial-intelligence-and-data-act/