Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
for all the talk of how AI is going to replace your job, let's make sure we also talk about how AI is degrading work today. we uncovered a political campaign by ShiftKey & Clipboard Health to spread surveillance wages.
At a Canadian university I once had a student complain (in my tenure file, no less) that I was biased against conservative views in an assignment. It was a cost/benefit analysis of a policy put in place by the Liberals...
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Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
Deadline Approaching: The Society of Woman Geographers will award the Evelyn L. Pruitt Fellowships for Dissertation Research to 10 fellows, with awards of up to $12,000, to Ph.D. students in Geography and allied fields to be used for their fieldwork. The deadline is April 30:
Good policy here. Really need to finish up my paper that examined corporate earnings calls and tech webinars for insights into how this is being rolled out.
🧵 The Canadian federal government’s 2025 budget has allocated:
More business tax breaks including for fossil fuels sector
$925 million for AI
$81.8 billion over 5 years for military
However, this comes at the expense of cultural heritage.
When Alan Sokal did this, it was widely regarded as discrediting the entire field of science studies (they were wrong then and this would be wrong now, but interesting on the vibes)
My new masterpiece: vibe-coded chart showing the collapse of the New Deal financial order and rise of Wall Street, by flow of deposits from small to big banks.
From 1990 to 2024 NYC banks more than double their deposit share. Small banks and thrifts go from more than half of deposits to <20%.
New paper in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Some great colleagues' work is sampled @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @landstuff.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social @azadehakbari.bsky.social @jamiepeck.bsky.social @reijer.bsky.social
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#geosky #ipesky
Stares in academic
The Canadian elite is both so threatened and so lazy.
Allegations of antisemitism worked in the UK with Corbyn so why don't we just say that the left wing party which [checks notes] just elected a Jewish party leader has an antisemitism problem (and conflate Judaism with the Israeli state).
Red States: We are canceling all programs that don't support our theology.
Blue States: We're canceling all the same programs, but because they don't support our business school.
University council stacked with consultants: ‘I believe that there's an intended infiltration of our governing boards by consultancy firms. It's all the mates looking after each other and seeing these consultancy costs balloon right across the…sector’ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
I've done absolutely no fact-checking, but I believe this is the first Geography professor to leave and become the leader of a major Canadian political party.
The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Not exactly what you're looking for, but maybe useful in general from Canada: qcaa.ca/resources/no...
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships are available in Human Geography at Aberystwyth, Cardiff, and Swansea Universities. wgsss.ac.uk/fellowships/. Interested candidates should email me as soon as possible. c.m.muellerleile@swansea.ac.uk
Initial deadline is May 1, 2026.
Please distribute widely!
Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.
Last few days to register for the Planners Network 50th Anniversary Conference, "Planning in the Face of Fascism" -- come join us in Toronto!
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Going from the red delicious apple of my childhood to the honey crisp apple of my daughter's childhood is like going from cave paintings to modern cinema in thirty years.
When listening to business podcasts, I'm struck by how surprised they are about the importance of geography. A lesson that people seem to have to constantly relearn is how much effort goes into 'time-space compression' aka smoothing the way for trade and accumulation - and its fragility in crises.
They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"
Oh look, investible tolls on the horizon, hurry Larry!
Looks great!
Tech: "Data centers bring jobs!"
Actual study: "In our analysis of a long term data set of Virginia (USA) we found that it took $33 million of investment into data centres to create one job, around 400 times the cost of a job from [other] IT investment."
How about we build solar/HSR/etc. instead?
You can now register (for free) to watch the live stream of the launch of The Story of Capital, published by @versobooks.bsky.social, at the People's Forum on March 30th at 6:30 PM [ET]. Featuring @davidharvey.org in conversation with @adamtooze.bsky.social
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Could not be worse timing!
