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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Redundancies/inefficiencies or not, it's funny that via a kind of monopolization meatgrinder, Uber customers are turned into a sanctimonious beneficiary's The Picture of Dara Khosrowshahi.

uk.finance.yahoo.com

Uber's CEO says you could see lower ride prices as a result of its layoffs

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi plans lower ride prices as savings from layoffs and reduced insurance costs are reinvested back into the business.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

every accusation is a yadda yadda

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Would a Magic card named Samwise Gamgee, Eavesdropper have had a black symbol?

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Leaving the arch, we enter the central section of the avenue of victory. The avenue was designed by Reich minister Albert Speer and was completed in 1957. It is 123 meters wide and 5.6 kilometers in length. It is both wider and two and a half times longer than the champs-élysées in Paris."

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Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

"For me bourgeois society is a closed society where it's not good to be alive, where the air is rotten and ideas and people are putrefying. And I believe that a man who takes a stand against this living death is in a way a revolutionary." --Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks"

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The same guy that paid that guy to bone-saw Jamal Khashoggi.." also bought $3.5B of Uber & a seat on its board. Marc Maron scolded comics for taking Saudi cash, yet cashed Uber Eats ad cheques. You can navigate capitalism — and Hong Kong, David Cross — without ensuring a regime gets an ROI.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Was thinking 'coning' autonomous livery vehicles could be revived with life-sized cardboard cutouts of Michael Knight (for example) due to Tesla's visual-only sensors, but it looks like David Hasselhoff would slowly get run over by the time-money imperative.

motor1.com

Watch: Tesla Robotaxi Pushes Through Austin Bollards

A Tesla Robotaxi bollard crash in Austin raises questions about the company’s impeccable safety claim and its unsupervised driverless rollout.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A literal market valuation in the many billions has them deriding as, yet drooling over, small potatoes.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ontario cabbies must take the first person who asks, however short the fare. Refusal means a $300 ticket. Uber drivers appear in this video bragging about declining anyone under 4.9 stars - beside taxi iconography they've no claim to. They kept the aesthetic and dropped the duty.

youtube.com

Uber Drivers Reveal Secrets That Will Change How You Ride | Travel Unfiltered

YouTube video by Travel + Leisure

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I once had a guy randomly come up to the cab to convince me that ridehailing means taxis aren't long for this world. Instantly, I recalled the woman who'd just been raped who couldn't successfully flag down a car until I drove by with the same identifiers that began that man's performative savvy.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Further proof that AI can function as a PR tool of the 1%. Flat tax affects the poor more than the rich - it's a greater percentage of their earnings.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other." Franz Kafka, The Trial

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Excerpt from It's On The Meter by Paul Archer & Johno Ellison 💀

Three years earlier and thousands of miles away, a different black cab raced along the rainy Birmingham expressway:
'Been busy tonight?'
How many times had this guy been made to suffer that question?

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Wallet-votes always go to the people with the thickest wallets, and statistically, that is not you." Treating shopping as a moral act creates an unhelpful "purity culture". It shames working-class people for buying cheaper goods, shifting the blame from predatory corporations to everyday consumers.

pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: Wallet voting (13 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

"If the grid goes down, you're not going to be able to think!" *gets in an uber*

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Don't get me wrong. In my opinion, Google Maps is the greatest thing they ever produced, in no small part because it required lots of being physically out in the world to get it right. But just when it was fully ready, it was used to start a base-less global dispatcher monopoly.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Thank you for choosing us. Just remember this never happened.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The riots weren't "taxi vs. city." Striking fleet drivers first went after independent owner-drivers who acted as strikebreakers - smashed their windows, pulled out their passengers, burned the cabs. They were never the same people. Odets wrote Waiting for Lefty out of that strike. 11/

youtu.be

Derek's Monologue for Waiting For Lefty

YouTube video by alexanderlgracie

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I suppose it's too late to tell you the truth.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Kalanick's back, and saying "taxi" like it's one thing. It was never one thing. Fleet owners, fleet drivers, and owner-drivers spent decades at each other's throats - in court, on picket lines, and sometimes with crowbars. /1

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

*to the tune of Don't Sweat the Technique* I resent the pushback.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Hey did you hear they got disposable words now?

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Maybe I was inspired by hands down the funniest part in Super Pumped, you don't know.

Kalanick-the lesh-and-blood one in the hotel hat Tuesday
morning-already brought to his knees, began muttering to his lieuten-
ants, ""This is bad, this is really bad." He fell further forward, writhing
around on the floor. "What is wrong with me?" he yelped.
like None this of made the them executives deeply knew what to do. Seeing Kalanick squirm like this made them deeply uncomfortable.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

PUSHING HACK Feature · alt-history techno-thriller · New York City, 1996–2000 Thirteen years before a company that won't be named, a broke ex-cab driver builds a car service that runs entirely on the early web. No office, no dispatcher, no meter anyone can see. It works, beautifully.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Nobody thought twice about handing their car ownership to an unregulated global dispatcher because nobody thought twice about taxi drivers. Displacing licensed cabbies had no social cost. That's not innovation. That's classist.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Just as Uber's claim of "connecting riders to drivers" was the reinvention of the wheel, this "flexibility" is what taxi owner-operators actually experienced, elucidated by one 4 minutes into this 1982 National Film Board documentary.

nfb.ca

Taxi!

This feature documentary studies one of the city’s most visible yet most anonymous character: the taxi driver. Filmed by day and night, the film offers an entertaining and …

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"Some folks" say it louder for the people in the front to get spat on.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Excerpt from Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver (2020 Revised Edition) by Graham Russell Gao Hodges

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Denmark, which consistently ranks first globally for digital government and digital economy adoption, looked at Uber's model, said it didn't comply with taxi regulations, and enforced those regulations until Uber left. The "you just don't understand the technology" defense falls completely flat.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Your idea is to give them everything they want and then convince them their tactics aren't working?

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"That's the difference between wrong and right But Billy said, both those words are dead That's the story of my life"

youtu.be

That's The Story Of My Life

YouTube video by The Velvet Underground - Topic

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It's hard because usually when you're criticizing a world government, an ethnic or religious group isn't jumping in front of those bullets.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Tried out Claude for the first time today and quickly had it apologizing for pushing back "for no good reason."

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The venn diagram of those least likely to become rich and those who'd give it all away is a circle.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

"live only in the moment" guy requesting a refund

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I often have a kind of 'song of the day' that I test on some folks. This was yesterday's, and everyone who heard it left an unexpected tip. But a traffic light turning green as the third verse began, then dropping off as the feedback subsided, felt almost as good as seeing her thankful smile.

youtu.be

Timorous Me

YouTube video by Ted Leo - Topic

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Not the best time to destroy any positive myths about human drivers, but the 25000 streets thing has always been superhuman. When green badge (central London) cabbies learn the book of common runs, that's about 3500 streets. By the time they finish the knowledge, they'll have memorized about 7000.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Uber didn't invent 'rideshare'—and real carpools are a tiny fraction of their trips. The word peaked in 1996 because of the Clean Air Act's Employee Commute Options (ECO) law, which forced large corps to mandate carpooling. Big Tech hijacked a green vocabulary to mask a predatory taxi empire.

A line graph from the Google Books Ngram Viewer tracing the frequency of the word 'rideshare' in English literature from 1950 to 2019. The line shows near-zero usage for decades, followed by a sudden, sharp spike that peaks dramatically right around 1996. After 1996, the line drops off through the 2000s, before beginning a second, steep climb starting around 2012

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

"Gypsy bit the dust You know the shit he had it was poisoned Now everybody wants Just a taste of what we sold him"

youtu.be

Hurray For The Riff Raff - Living In The City (Official Video)

YouTube video by HFTRRVEVO

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The gig economy acts as an unofficial welfare system. Instead of forcing employers to pay a living wage so workers can afford the true cost of goods & services, governments allow the system to cannibalize, for the sake of monopolistic cut-rates, the working class's single largest asset: their cars.

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Taxi Pilot @everydayswithin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

me when lefties start psychiatry talking about the need for inner work and healing (in a perpetually wounding system) before you're of any use to the revolution

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