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You Have Reached the Turning-Thirty Helpline

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Sat, 04/11/2023 - 04:03

Thank you for calling the Turning-Thirty Helpline for People Having Big Feelings About Turning Thirty. We’re here to help you navigate the transition from your twenties to your thirties, and we promise not to wish you a happy birthday.

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The Flickering

https://www.monbiot.com/2023/11/03/the-flickering/
Created
Sat, 04/11/2023 - 03:58
Earth systems are being rushed towards their tipping points by governments that offer us nothing but chaos. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 31st October 2023 Can you see it yet? The Earth systems horizon – the point at which our planetary systems tip into a new equilibrium, hostile to most lifeforms? I think […]

Η Big Tech δεν μπορεί να “ρυθμιστεί”. Μόνο να κοινωνικοποιηθεί! – NEWS24|7

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/11/03/%ce%b7-big-tech-%ce%b4%ce%b5%ce%bd-%c…
Created
Sat, 04/11/2023 - 03:39

Η αντιμονοπωλιακή νομοθεσία σχεδιάστηκε, αρχικά, για να προστατεύσει τους καταναλωτές από τις υπερβολικές τιμές των μονοπωλίων. Προφανώς, κάτι τέτοιο είναι εκτός θέματος στην περίπτωση των υπηρεσιών της Big Tech, οι οποίες και δωρεάν είναι και προσφέρονται άπλετα σε κάθε χρήστη που τις θέλει. Από την αυγή του καπιταλισμού, εταιρείες-μαμούθ κυριαρχούν. Τι το καινούργιο φέρνει η Big Tech; […]

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Discussing TECHNOFEUDALISM on ABC-tv THE DRUM with Ellen Fanning and panel

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/11/03/discussing-technofeudalism-on-abc-tv-…
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Sat, 04/11/2023 - 03:29

Interviewed by Ellen Fanning on ABC-tv The Drum on my new book TECHNOFEUDALISM: What killed capitalism. A 20 minute-long discussion involving a diverse panel. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis is published by Bodley Head 

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The big idea: has the digital economy killed capitalism? – The Guardian

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/11/03/the-big-idea-has-the-digital-economy-…
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Sat, 04/11/2023 - 03:17

Enter Amazon and you have exited capitalism. Despite all the buying and the selling that goes on there, you have entered a realm that can’t be thought of as a market, not even a digital one.” When I say this to people, which I frequently do in lectures and debates, they look at me as they […]

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The MAGA Plans To Blow Up America

https://digbysblog.net/2023/11/03/the-maga-plans-to-blow-up-america/
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Sat, 04/11/2023 - 03:00
I have been documenting Donald Trump’s plans for his restoration ever since he was exiled to his Palm Beach Elba on January 20, 2021. It was clear from that moment on that he was plotting his comeback and the people around him weren’t just licking their wounds and preparing to move on, they were readying plans to ensure that the second term permanently solidified their power. They’ve been hard at work ever since. They had begun the project the previous fall, with a plan called “Schedule F” which was implemented just 13 days before the election. The presidential edict called for the stripping of all the executive branch departments, from the FBI, the intelligence agencies, the Pentagon and, of course, the usual suspects, the EPA and the IRS. Biden reversed this upon taking office and the congress passed some roadblocks to using it in the future but nobody believes they will be effective if Trump, or frankly, any Republican, once again assumes the presidency.

Claudia Goldin — gender gaps and inequality

https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2023/11/03/claudia-goldin-gender-gaps-and-inequ…
Created
Sat, 04/11/2023 - 01:57
The Nobel Committee has awarded this year’s Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes”. Indeed, Claudia’s contributions to the topic are vast, perhaps best epitomised by her 1990 book Understanding the Gender Gap. This book illustrates at once her […]

50-50 on fascism vs. freedom

https://digbysblog.net/2023/11/03/50-50-on-fascism-vs-freedom/
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Sat, 04/11/2023 - 01:30
Be as excited about expanding freedom Anand Giridharadas presents a video conversation about what inpired “The Persuaders” at The Ink : A year from now, America will face a defining choice between authoritarianism and freedom, hatred and love, exclusion and inclusion, and, as of now, it’s a dead heat. It shouldn’t be. It doesn’t have to be. Early in the conversation, Giridharadas says: In a moment in American life in which the contest is not small government versus big government, blue versus red, left versus right, high taxes versus low taxes, in which the contest is really pro-democracy versus anti-democracy, some of us versus all of us … it was a dead heat. And sometimes we do well in the dead heat. And that means 49-46. A couple states more than that, and sometimes we lose the dead heat. But as a writer, as opposed to being a campaigner who has to eke out these narrow victories, I have the luxury of stepping back a little bit and saying, hold on.

It takes more than good ads

https://digbysblog.net/2023/11/03/it-takes-more-than-good-ads/
Created
Sat, 04/11/2023 - 00:00
But it’s a start Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko pointed to this introductory ad from a candidate running for Congress in Arkansas. Yeah, on first glance this ad from retired colonel Marcus Jones is good. Then again (from 2022): During the 2010 senatorial primary in North Carolina, Democrat Cal Cunningham said to my face that the DSCC told him his Bronze Star would trump anything the right wing could throw at him. My first thought was, “And you believed them?” My second was, “Does John Kerry ring a bell?” At the Democratic State Executive Committee meeting in Durham Saturday, one delegate rolled her eyes at Senate candidate Cheri Beasley’s TV ads as the bland products of talentless consultants. “She’s going to lose.” Former N.C. Chief Justice Beasley did in 2020 and 2022. Cunningham famously lost a second bid for Senate in 2020. Another retired colonel ran for Congress here in WNC and lost to Madison Cawthorn. Having a military background may get you a foot in the door with swing voters but won’t prevent them from slamming it on your foot. Post by @adamparkhomenko View on Threads Good luck, colonel.

Chris White Answers Profound Questions About the Presidents: Who’s in the Presidential Boy Band?

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whos-in-the-presidential-boy-band
Created
Sat, 04/11/2023 - 00:00

To help celebrate our twenty-fifth year of being on the information superhighway, we have reached out to some of our favorite former columnists for check-ins and updates. Today’s returning columnist, Chris White, was one of the winners of our first-ever Column Contest in 2009. For Chris White Answers Profound Questions About the Presidents, he posed tough questions about our former leaders and then wrote hilarious (and historically accurate) responses to them. We’re happy to welcome Chris back to the to the site with a brand-new installment.

Palestine Action On Trial, with Huda Amori

https://www.mintpressnews.com/palestine-action-on-trial-with-huda-amori/286196/
Created
Fri, 03/11/2023 - 23:59

Lowkey catches up with Palestine Action founder Huda Ammori to discuss the revelations in The Guardian of Israeli Embassy intervention in Palestine Action court cases. They also examine Huda's upcoming court case and the possibility of going to prison for shutting down the Israeli war machine in Britain.

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