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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

18 In this world of management by algorithm, many workers feel that they have lost dignity and voice. And there are yet more radical alternatives emerging—like the BeWelcome platform cooperative, which connects travelers to people who wish to voluntarily share their homes, and forbids any payment for lodging. 9</sup).

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. 9 Only the latest strategy in the militarization of urban space, facial recognition has unleashed a police armageddon on poor neighbourhoods, most notably in the vast carceral cities of Los Angeles and Shanghai.

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