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UNI Europa | Brussels interested in labour and law and political economy
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Progressive International
4 months ago
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 ✍️
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Block Baerbock From the UN
Only a movement millions strong can stop Baerbock's presidency at the United Nations General Assembly.
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Daniela Gabor
4 months ago
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'
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Pavlos Roufos
7 months ago
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.
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Daniel Denvir
9 months ago
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...
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Psychiatric Struggle w/ Danielle Carr
Featuring Danielle Carr on the history and present state of American unwellness and how that’s been shaped by psychiatry, prescription drugs, neuroscience, popular culture, smartphones and social medi...
https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/psychiatric-struggle-w-danielle-carr/
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Daniela Gabor
9 months ago
no derisking state, no green hydrogen
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🤡The EU budget would derisk the investment of other partners.🤡
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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EU launches InvestAI initiative to mobilise €200 billion of investment in artificial intelligence
Today, at the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in Paris, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has launched InvestAI, an initiative to mobilise €200 billion for investment in AI, includi...
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_467
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Ed Zitron
10 months ago
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/
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Deep Impact
Soundtrack: The Hives — Hate To Say I Told You So In the last week or so, but especially over the weekend, the entire generative AI industry has been thrown into chaos. This won’t be a lengthy, tech...
https://www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/
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Ed Zitron
10 months ago
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...
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AI Now Institute
10 months ago
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
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'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...
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The rise of nuclear powered batteries
Companies vie to create small plants for deployment to sites from data centres to oil platforms
https://www.ft.com/content/a4c98cb2-797a-4943-9643-2fd75accfd59
10 months ago
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Grace Blakeley
10 months ago
Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all. It’s all about labour 🧵
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Money on the Left
11 months ago
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...
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Aaron Benanav
11 months ago
I love
@edzitron.com
's newsletter. If you want to keep up with the latest on the AI bubble, don't miss this.
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Linus Westheuser
11 months ago
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-...
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'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...
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Gavin Rae, Contra Populism? — Sidecar
Donald Tusk’s Poland.
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/contra-populism
12 months ago
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EL PAÍS
12 months ago
🔴 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
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Glovo anuncia que abandona su modelo de falsos autónomos un día antes de que su fundador declare en un proceso penal
La empresa acumula más de 200 millones de euros en sanciones y cotizaciones impagadas a la Seguridad Social. Pasa a un modelo laboral, con repartidores contratados
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'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...
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One Election Takeaway: Voters Hate Temporary Safety Nets
Announcement: I'm putting on an end of year sale. For just 55 dollars a year you can subscribe and receive premium pieces of Notes on the Crises. This also helps support the FOIA efforts I've been eng...
https://www.crisesnotes.com/one-election-takeaway-voters-hate-temporary-safety-nets/
12 months ago
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Nathan Tankus
12 months ago
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...
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UNI Europa
12 months ago
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.
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‘Make Amazon Pay’ strikes and protests: In Germany, workers from around the world demand dignity and respect - UNI Europa
This Black Friday, Amazon workers from around the world will join picket lines in Bad Hersfeld, Germany, to hold Amazon accountable.
https://www.uni-europa.org/news/make-amazon-pay-strikes-2024/
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Ned Richardson-Little
12 months ago
"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:
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LPE Blog
12 months ago
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.
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Your Boss is Probably Spying on You: New Data on Workplace Surveillance
New research reveals that more than two-thirds of U.S. workers are subject to electronic monitoring, and that more intensive productivity monitoring is associated with higher levels of anxiety…
https://lpeproject.org/blog/your-boss-is-probably-spying-on-you-new-data-on-workplace-surveillance/
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Rosie Collington
12 months ago
(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 ⚙️⛓️💥💸
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UNI Europa
12 months ago
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...
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Behind the beauty routine
While social media fuels the booming beauty industry, who supports the workers keeping both alive?
https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/economy-and-ecology/behind-the-beauty-routine-7923/
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