Annalena Baerbock authorized over €400 million in military exports to Israel in 2023 alone. The clock is ticking to block her appointment as President of the 80th United Nations General Assembly. SIGN NOW ✍️

First you carpet-bomb, then you privatise their public land, and confiscate the private land of the survivors, which you generously allow then to stay in a 'housing unit'. And you get to call it a 'development plan'

Imagine in the future when someone will have to teach how the US government went around telling the world that it was in fact the country which benefited the least from its own hegemony.

My long-planned interview w @daniellecarr.bsky.social is out on @thedigradio.bsky.social! On history and present state of American unwellness; how it’s been shaped by psychiatry, prescription drugs, neuroscience, popular culture, smartphones, social media—and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/psyc...

no derisking state, no green hydrogen

🤡The EU budget would derisk the investment of other partners.🤡 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Newsletter: The DeepSeek situation is a moment that should fill Silicon Valley with shame, a monument to the lack of vision and herd mentality of the American tech industry. OpenAI and Anthropic have no moat, no business, no innovation, and I believe no future. www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/

I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks. www.ft.com/content/a0df...

With @datasociety.bsky.social, we’re hosting a fireside chat and mixer on the business model of generative AI and its impacts on workers. Join AI Now's reporter in residence @bcmerchant.bsky.social & @cariatida.bsky.social @edwardongwesojr.com in SF on 1/28: data-society.typeform.com/ds-ainow-mixer

'the race to develop “microreactors” is based on the notion they can replace diesel and gas generatorsused by data centres, remote off-grid communities, oil and gas platforms ... two of the target markets for eVinci reactors were data centres and the oil and gas industry'😀 www.ft.com/content/a4c9...

Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all. It’s all about labour 🧵

Billy Saas and guest-host Ben Wilson speak with Martha McCluskey about the ins and outs of the Law & Political Economy movement. moneyontheleft.org/2024/12/01/l...

I love @edzitron.com's newsletter. If you want to keep up with the latest on the AI bubble, don't miss this.

Class consciousness still shapes voting, but in a different way than in the past. That's the key finding of a study with @thomaslux.bsky.social now out in English. We chart how class identity, interests and status link with voting for the left and right in Germany. A🧵 library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-...

'Having frozen €137 billion worth of funding for Poland because of PiS’s supposed disregard for the ‘rule of law’, it has now decided to unlock the money for Tusk – signalling its preference for political compliance over substantive change.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Glovo anuncia que abandona su modelo de falsos autónomos un día antes de que su fundador declare en un proceso penal https://buff.ly/4fTgFQr

'Lower income households experienced the salient price increases, the running through of financial assets accumulated in 2020 and 2021 & the loss of the safety net expansions as a worsening economic situation, regardless of what the headline numbers said' www.crisesnotes.com/one-election...

Yesterday some generous person made a generous donation and got this past £6000! Thank you to whoever that is! This fundraiser is nearing the finished line, so lets keep the momentum going! chuffed.org/project/1159...

BREAKING: This Black Friday, Amazon workers from the US, UK, France, Italy and Nepal will join picket lines set up by their German colleagues in Bad Hersfeld to #MakeAmazonPay for labour abuses, environmental degradation and threats to democracy.

"Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies" is now available electronically from OUP and the hardback should be out on December 19! global.oup.com/academic/pro... Here is a thread on what we have put together:

Today, Alex Hertel-Fernandez (@awhf.bsky.social) shares new research revealing the pervasive use of electronic surveillance and automated management tools in workplaces throughout the American economy.

(Another) bad press day for McKinsey 🙃 In THE BIG CON we unpack why headlines like these are not simply the work of a few bad apples but symptoms of a bigger crisis of our fossil fueled & extractive economic system. The consulting industry greases its wheels ⚙️⛓️‍💥💸 @mazzucatom.bsky.social

While social media fuels the booming beauty industry, who supports the workers keeping both alive? @madlenik.bsky.social and @mdbergfeld.bsky.social write for about the challenges in Europe's hairdressing industry — and how unions address them. Read here: www.ips-journal.eu/topics/econo...