El mal gobierno búlgaro El modelo autoritario y neoliberal de gobernanza impulsado por la Unión Europea y por su clase dirigente es tan inepto en su política exterior como corrosivo...

🇧🇬 El mal gobierno búlgaro

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UNI Europa report highlights the role of collective bargaining in European hairdressing - UNI Europa Despite its crucial social and economic importance, hairdressing remains largely invisible in European policy debates. Highly feminised, youth-intensive and SME-dominated hairdressing continues to be ...

Despite its crucial economic importance, hairdressing remains largely invisible in European policy debates.

Our new report maps collective bargaining in the sector, which needs renewed political and institutional support for sector-wide bargaining.

Block Baerbock From the UN Only a movement millions strong can stop Baerbock's presidency at the United Nations General Assembly.

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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/

OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property. The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost. OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.

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

it's so perverse 'Microreactors are also likely to be used by the mining industry, particularly to excavate cobalt, manganese and other critical minerals that are often located in remote locations'

The rise of nuclear powered batteries Companies vie to create small plants for deployment to sites from data centres to oil platforms

'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.

Cover of the publication "Class consciousness and voting. Class as a political compass?" by Linus Westheuser and Thomas Lux, published by Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The cover illustration shows a stylized female worker flexing her muscles.

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-...

Gavin Rae, Contra Populism? — Sidecar Donald Tusk’s Poland.

'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...

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

🔴 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

'issues like partisanship or media ecosystems mostly impact the perception of what’s happening to others, or in the local or national economy — rather than individuals' perception of their own financial circumstances.'

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...

'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...

‘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.

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.

Cover of the book Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies featuring an abstract piece of art by Kasimir Malevich

"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:

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…

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

Behind the beauty routine While social media fuels the booming beauty industry, who supports the workers keeping both alive?

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...