How ‘local’ was taken out of local government HOW LOCAL WAS TAKEN OUT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT And Why Victoria’s Suburbs Are Now Governed by Algorithms, Ambition, and Aqueducts to Nowhere I. THE KENNETT EARTHQUAKE (1992-1999) When Jeff Kennett’s Libe...

When citizens become customers and customers become commodities... #australia #municipalcouncils #localgovernment #corporatisation #corruption #politics #democracyundermined theaimn.net/how-local-wa...

#auspol #academia #corporatisation #academicpublishing #enshittification

$33 Billion gone: U.S. cannabis industry crashes from $37B to $4B in just 3 years - NewsBreak Los Angeles, California – What once looked like the next great American industry now finds itself stalled at

California, once a model for national reform, has become a cautionary tale. Despite legal status & cultural acceptance the state’s legal cannabis market continues to suffer from overregulation, high taxes & competition from entrenched illegal market #Corporatisation
www.newsbreak.com/san-diego-po...

Can we use GenAI to subvert the neoliberal university? Generative AI can be a tool of resistance against the corporatisation of higher education – or it can be just another distraction to make us ‘zombies in the loop’ of the system. Here is how we can cho...

#GenerativeAI can be a tool of resistance against #corporatisation in #highered – or it can be another distraction to make us ‘zombies’ of the system, writes Richard McInnes. He explains how to choose the former: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/can-w... #GenAI #neoliberalism

#teaching
#corporatisation

#corporatisation
#capitalism
#organisedcriminalnetworks

I include orgs like #hillsong & it’s subsidiaries too

#corruptcuntry