For a long time after the Industrial Revolution, many thinkers believed that automation would lead to us living lives of leisure. Twenty your work weeks, or even less, and many people wouldn’t need to work at all, but would still live good lives. It never happened. Economists will tell you this is because there’s always […]
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This is a thread for comments on how to prepare for bad times. All off-topic comments will be deleted. The thread will be re-upped every Saturday so that resources can build over time. (I’m going to bring this back to the top at least once a month, maybe more, so people can read the old […]
Australia’s most popular racist bigot, Pauline Hanson, has reached out to Australia’s most popular drunk adulterer, Barnaby Joyce, to come over to her place and enjoy a fresh batch of prison wine that Pauline knocked up in her toilet. ”Barnaby... Read More ›
Two of the biggest players in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal explore the latest revelations — and the bombshells yet to come.
New York state is holding Ticketmaster’s feet to the fire after a Lever report exposed the company’s updated mass arbitration policy.
ExxonMobil is proposing a new plan to vote on behalf of its absentee investors, in a novel attempt to silence shareholder dissent.
In inference to the best explanation, we start with a body of (purported) data or evidence and seek out hypotheses that can account for it. To have the best explanation means that you, given the context-dependent background assumptions, have a satisfactory account that explains the evidence better than any other competing explanation — and so […]
Elevated from Comments. Piece by KT Chong China is now entering the next phase of its economic-growth engine — humanoid robots. And just like with EVs, the shift is happening fast, quietly, and with the same pattern: Chinese companies industrialize before Western analysts even realize it’s begun. UBTech, Unitree, XPeng — they’ve all started mass-producing […]
Private equity-owned Black Bear Sports Group is buying up youth hockey — and icing out parents who want to record their kids’ games.
I’ll keep this mercifully short. One commenter in my Friday night econ news post asked, in a kind of oblique way, what would I do in this environment. Okay, I’ll play — but not without stating firmly and loudly that I am not dispensing investment advice, nor am I licensed any longer to do so. […]
Nara, Japan – Sharp Europe detailed how it built a digital infrastructure for one of the world's most complex B2B operations on Drupal, managing 120,000 enterprise customers across 48 countries with 17 sites in 19 languages.
The electronics giant generates €13.5 billion in annual revenue, with 40% coming from B2B operations that serve vastly different audiences – from 110,000 small enterprises requiring low-touch transactions to mid-market companies needing sophisticated engagement.
"Big, complex, broad, deep," said Jason Cort, who leads European product management and marketing for Sharp. "That's what our martech stack has to support."
Image: Shigeru Kobayashi – COO Executive Officer, Head of B2B, Sharp
Nara, Japan – Sharp Europe detailed how it built a digital infrastructure for one of the world's most complex B2B operations on Drupal, managing 120,000 enterprise customers across 48 countries with 17 sites in 19 languages.
The electronics giant generates €13.5 billion in annual revenue, with 40% coming from B2B operations that serve vastly different audiences – from 110,000 small enterprises requiring low-touch transactions to mid-market companies needing sophisticated engagement.
"Big, complex, broad, deep," said Jason Cort, who leads European product management and marketing for Sharp. "That's what our martech stack has to support."
Image: Shigeru Kobayashi – COO Executive Officer, Head of B2B, Sharp
First, a lovely prelude to hint at the bigger and darker story. Then come the books that help unpack the black box: — Beckert, Jens and Matías Dewey, eds. 2017. The Architecture of Illegal Markets: Towards an Economic Sociology of Illegality in the Economy. Oxford University Press.— Binder, Andrea. 2023. Offshore Finance and State Power. Oxford […]
Sky News has taken a break from their crusade to have the Coalition bring back lead based petrol, to take aim at the Nation’s children. After news broke that schools were being closed due to sand being contaminated with asbestos.... Read More ›
Every community has unsung heroes—people who show up, lend a hand, mentor newcomers, and make everyone around them better. In the Drupal community, we have a special way of recognizing these exceptional individuals: the Aaron Winborn Award.
Nominations are now open for 2026.
This isn't about code commits or issue credits as this award celebrates the human qualities that make our community truly special: service, integrity, kindness, and that rare willingness to go above and beyond.
When visiting my children in Stockholm, I nowadays find myself unable to resist visiting Stefan Nilsson’s grave at Katarina Churchyard on Söder. Stefan’s brief, sorrowful tones have, over the years, become part of my everyday life. His music for Bille August’s and Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece The Best Intentions is among the most beautiful and evocative […]
A bill would loosen financial requirements for new banks, threatening broader economic collapse.
Obviously, Epstein was scum of the lowest order; a blackmailer, a pimp, a pedophile, and a traitor. (Working with Mossad to blackmail American politicians was surely treason. And given that Israel is a genocidal, religious ethno-state, possibly the most evil country in the world, well…) But like many effective evil people, Epstein had his virtues. […]
When it was announced that leftist Catherine Connolly had won a record-breaking vote to become the new Uachtarán na hÉireann, or President of Ireland, the pearl-clutching headlines from the British right-wing press were foreseeable. Conservative columnists seemingly vied for the most hysterical. A Spectator columnist mildly wrote, ‘Catherine Connolly’s election is a low for Ireland.’ […]
Christina McAnea, standing again to lead Unison, tells Byline Times she understands why people are looking for alternatives to Starmer's Government
In September, a new political organisation was launched in the UK, aimed at bringing together Labour members dismayed by the party’s rightward shift. Called ‘Mainstream’, the project describes itself as ‘the home for Labour’s radical realists — united by values, driven by change; for everyone who knows that to transform the country and take on […]
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November 17th, 2025: Thus both begins, and ends, the single-part saga of T-Rex And The Big Vegetable!!! – Ryan In an interview with The Grayzone, author Andrew Lownie details shocking findings of his research into Prince Andrew’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Describing Andrew as his “Super Bowl trophy,” Epstein used the prince for intel, which he passed to foreign spy agencies. Lownie says further revelations threaten to “bury” the Royal Family. Prince Andrew’s decades-long relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was “earlier, longer, and far more intimate than anyone has previously admitted,” historian Andrew Lownie told The Grayzone. Their friendship was […] The post The intel scandal behind Prince Andrew’s twisted Epstein exploits first appeared on The Grayzone. The post The intel scandal behind Prince Andrew’s twisted Epstein exploits appeared first on The Grayzone. | ||