Jon Woodside

For Social and Natural Ecologies:
Fighting for space for small business and workers.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

So the NY Post just totally made up this claim that thousands of 9/11 families are mad at Mamdani.

Just a complete fabrication from a guy who basically hoaxed them:

In an interview with Popular Information, Galante acknowledged that there was no actual list of family members who had signed the petition. “We don’t have a list,” Galante said. Rather, the 300 figure that organizers shared with the New York Post was an estimate based on how they believe the petition spread before it received much publicity. “We all know each other, so…think about it. If you know 10 people and they give it to 10 more people they know that lost. That’s how we got the 300 number,” Galante explained. “I don’t go through the list and look at the names.”

[Jon Woodside @jkwoodside]

@briebriejoy @alanmldk @robsmithonline I did see that argument in a youtube video. It made sense and wasn't untethered from the film. The metaphor is sloppy, but it's a comedy adventure.

[Jon Woodside @jkwoodside]

@truthseekertom1 @EastEndJoe q3wwP2

[The Rundown @therundowntvo]

A recent court decision in Waterloo Region could have far-reaching consequences for homeless encampments across the province. @simaatri (@cjc_to) tells @spaikin why, tonight at 8/11pm | Producer: @Mariasarrouh

[Jon Woodside @jkwoodside]

@NYTWA This is a frightening commitment and should demonstrate the desperate need of drivers. Don't make people pay for corporate greed and bureaucratic apathy.

[Jon Woodside @jkwoodside]

@JasonThorne_RPP Isn't that supposed to be a covered arcade?

[Jon Woodside @jkwoodside]

In the raptors movie Norm is the main character! He was one of us.

The Players' Tribune: The North by Norman Powell | NBA.
https://t.co/gIF8dwDjpN

via @GoogleNews

[Jon Woodside @jkwoodside]

Time is money for some but apparently not for workers in the gig economy.

[Dara Kerr @darakerr]

Lyft commissioned a study to see how much riders will pay to wait less time for rides. Their time was valued at $19 p/hour.
Interestingly, however, Lyft won't pay drivers for the time they wait to be matched with riders. Drivers are only paid for the time when they're on a ride

[Jon Woodside @jkwoodside]

Immediate stock price returns from exempting gig workers from labour laws.

[Faiz Siddiqui @faizsays]

Tech stocks doing well today, but none as well as Uber and Lyft, which have surged 15 and 18 percent respectively on news their ballot measure to deny drivers employment passed https://t.co/LvoBlMCCJ0

[Jon Woodside @jkwoodside]

A great way to drive acceptance of something that is against a person's interests is to create artificial scarcity.

[Earla @earlwithana]

@KristineHubbard

[Jon Woodside @jkwoodside]

Lyft's new approach to bargaining down wages. Prioritize driver who take a "voluntary" 10% wage cut.

[Earla @earlwithana]

@KristineHubbard Absolutely!

[Jon Woodside @jkwoodside]

This legislation appears to establish platform markets as a form of private infrastructure. But in distributing this power, platforms should be subject to additional democratic oversight.

https://t.co/NT1JhE1szy

[Jon Woodside @jkwoodside]

Evidence of systematic underpayment of drivers and another example of ingenuity from drivers. Platform algorithms need to be opened up.
https://t.co/nYWnvqj3va

[Jon Woodside @jkwoodside]

Terrific thread on Uber drivers' experience of place and worker organization.

[Jon Woodside @jkwoodside]

@KatieJWells This is a great thread. Thank you. I have also done interviews of rideshare drivers at an international airport and was really taken by the comraderie there and how much it contrasted with people I met at other sites. Really interesting argument too!

[Jon Woodside @jkwoodside]

Uber laying it out bare. You can have high prices or worker exploitation. For all its facade of tech they are still puzzled by the same challenge to making an accessible basic car service.

[MS NOW @MSNOWNews]

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi tells @SRuhle the ride-hailing app would have to shut down in the state of California until at least November if a judge's ruling that Uber must treat drivers as employees instead of independent contractors fails to be appealed by the company.

[Jon Woodside @jkwoodside]

@NickRevington @mellisyoung Hey Congrats Dad. You two take care and enjoy these first days.

[Jon Woodside @jkwoodside]

For urbanists, urban designers seeking existing movements away from a focus on property value over everything.

[Damian White @damianfwhite]

1.If design is to grapple w the pandemic theories of racial capitalism @KeeangaYamahtta, the social epidemiology/political ecology ofC19(Rob Wallace)+ its intersect w/historical geog of planetary urbanization @UrbanTheoryLab prob going to get us further than generational thinking

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Essential workers across the U.S. are coming together in an unprecedented way to strike today, on #InternationalWorkersDay.

One of their biggest demands? Hazard pay. #MayDay

[Jon Woodside @jkwoodside]

@zeithistoriker Bombardier just sold their trains business this past year.