@martijnboersma
A/Prof Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney | Editorial Board: Journal of Business Ethics and Australian Journal of Human Rights | Views are my own | #BizHumanRights #ModernSlavery | Free Palestine 🇵🇸🍉 | https://www.martijnboersma.com
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38%. Major broadcast networks in the U.S. cut their climate coverage 35% compared to the year before. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein. grist.org/language/glo...
Palantir CEO saying the quiet part out loud: “This technology disrupts humanities-trained - largely Democratic- voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters.” #AI newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
This is some grim dystopian crap. Forever wars driven by AI-systems that make 37 million computations per second. #Palantir #Maven
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Meanwhile, Australian energy companies are making windfall profits. Time for a windfall tax.
During the 2022-23 energy crisis the EU collected €26 billion which it used to support households.
In Aus, use for of cost of living easing and energy transition.
#auspol
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Left: Dutch career criminal Willem Holleeder, who kidnapped brewery magnate Freddy Heineken in 1983.
Right: Angus Taylor, the new leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
I think the Liberals may want to check Angus’ eligibility to sit in Parliament: he may be a dual citizen. #auspol #libspill
Meanwhile, Australia rolls out the welcome mat for the president of israel. This is the head of state of a country whose prime minister stands indicted by the International Criminal Court. This is also a man who declared there were “no innocents in Gaza.” Disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/w...
“Market failure” suddenly matters when it’s about critical minerals. Price floors, guarantees, trade rules, etc. But when labour prices plummet this is accepted as an outcome of supply and demand. Minerals get protection from volatility; workers are told to absorb it. 🤡
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The abduction of Nicolás Maduro marks a grim threshold. If a head of state can be seized with impunity, then the international rules-based order (what was left of it) is dead. The statements by Trump about access to Venezualan oil shows that this is US imperialism asserting itself without disguise.
A resolution by the ILO’s regional staff union, which was supported by nearly 80% of the members, warned that “relocation risks sending mixed signals to constituents and normalising weak labour standards in a region dominated by migrant workers with limited effective rights”.
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A federal judge delivered an extraordinary 161-page rebuke of President Trump, ruling that the administration impermissibly chilled the protected political speech of university professors and students by targeting non-citizens on college campuses who have spoken out in support of Palestine.
“This amendment is really designed to shield Israel from any accountability by penalizing those who protest its violations of Palestinian human rights through boycotts, which should be protected by the First Amendment.”
#Boycott #BDS #Israel #US #Gaza
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UC Berkeley has handed over 160 names of faculty, staff, and students to the Trump administration in a probe of “antisemitic incidents.” With no due process, no transparency, and international students at risk, this is blatant McCarthyism and a disgraceful betrayal of academic freedom. #highered
Charges against Sydney pro-Palestinian protester Hannah Thomas, who was seriously injured by police, were dropped.
UTS has KPMG on retainer for $180,000 per week for work it was meant to complete in the original $4.8 million contract.
KPMG gets $180,000 a week. The same amount gets you a lecturer and tutors for an entire year!
Incompetence of UTS 'leadership' and utter governance failure. #auspol #highered
A labour court, in the Amazonian state of Pará, on Friday ordered VW's Brazilian subsidiary to pay compensation of 165 million reais ($A46.5 million) over the illegal exploitation of workers in the 1970s and 1980s, the Brazilian public prosecutor's office for labour said.
It's really fucked up the news media at large is searching so hard for humanity in machines, while systematically denying humanity to Palestinians, trans people, immigrants, and other persecuted people
With moderate CO2 emissions, the tipping point will be reached at around 2063. With high emissions, the collapse could begin as early as 2055.
This leads to additional sea level rise, more storm surges, and agricultural yields will decrease by about 1/3. And all of that will last for centuries.
@erinobrien.bsky.social @ainsleyelbra.bsky.social 🤔
New research | 4 largest US asset managers, like BlackRock and Vanguard, now manage 1/8th of all Dutch listed companies.
That’s over 10 times more than the five largest Dutch asset managers.
They are much less likely to vote in favour of climate resolutions compared to Dutch asset managers.
Amid international outrage, Israel is now claiming the double-tap strike on Nasser hospital was an accident—after celebrating it in Hebrew media.
Drunk on their own impunity they take us all for fools. They mock humanity itself. Hell is not hot enough for these monsters.
Israel has murdered at least 192 journalists. The latest 5 journos were killed after #IDF ‘mistakingly’ bombed a hospital in Gaza.
Israel is not going to stop slaughtering Palestinians unless the rest of the world makes them. Impose sanctions FFS #auspol
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I second that!
I think there is a general dislike of external consultants that helps with the airtime, even with the West 🤣
Six universities are looking to cut around 1,500 jobs. Millions of dollars have been spent on external consultants, who get to shape the future of public higher education in Australia - and with what accountability? Universities are a public good, education is not a product. #auspol #highered
Not even rain, cold and crappy Sydney weather could stop @nteunion.bsky.social members coming together to protest against corporatised uni governance and job cuts today. ✊✊✊💜💜💜☔️☔️☔️
Fear mongering - for a second I thought I was reading Murdoch media. An inheritance tax on the very wealthy to reduce inequality should not be dubbed a 'death tax', just to get some extra clicks. This won't impact the inheritance of the bulk of Australians, and it is a sensible policy idea. #auspol
“Israel fears the people who tell the world about what is happening in Gaza — the war, the genocide, the famine. Anas made it a mission to tell these stories, our stories, all over the world. And people listened,” a pseudonymous Palestinian journalist who lives in the US writes for @theintercept.com
Big win for the TWU and a big congratulations to everyone involved in building this case ✊🏻💪🏻
I’ve donated to support John Keane and Nick Riemer in their Federal Court case defending free speech, academic freedom, and the right to oppose genocide and apartheid.
I encourage others to read about their fight and contribute if you can. #highered #freepalestine @nteunion.bsky.social
The U.S. State Dept’s new human rights report on Israel has been gutted — shrinking from 103 pages last year to 9. Gone are UN and NGO accounts of abuses, the ICJ genocide case, ICC warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant, and detailed reporting on press freedom, torture, and mass civilian deaths in Gaza.