@ahakram-lodhi
Professor Emeritus of Economics, Global Justice and Development at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada, whose research is on the feminist political ecology of agrarian change, livelihoods and food systems.
Now?
AI adoption at all costs? "The Pentagon has been spending tens of billions of dollars to adopt new technologies at breakneck speed. Without oversight and safeguards, military applications of artificial intelligence could jeopardize civil liberties and lives." www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Have you been? Back in the 1990s I had a friend in ActionAid UK who was in Hargisa for 2 years
Reading. www.ft.com/content/74d5... The breakaway African state building Coca-Cola plants and Emirati ports
It was blindingly obvious that this was going to happen. All the woolly language around ‘limited use’ and ‘defensive purposes’ was just stalling. It always is.
We are now facing the biggest ever market disruption in the most systemically significant price of all.
Link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Link to research on systemically significant prices: academic.oup.com/icc/article/...
cycle meme of work, life, and Spurs all being stressful at the same time
anyone else?
More and more, Trump is making US institutions behave like Putin’s Russian versions. This was an immediate military coverup of something that should have been admitted:
More and more rot.
"As U.S. state and Big Tech become one, we become digital serfs, and it sucks" By Canadian Shield Institute Managing Director @vassb.bsky.social
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
Over a week ago, in the FT, the *shipping* guys were saying "it's not just insurance. We just don't actually want our ships blown up."
How large could that number get? Consider the sheer scale of Iran. There are 95 million Iranians
The FT on how people in Iran - including those opposed to the government - are reacting to the US-Israeli bombing and how they feel about the would-be Shah who called for it.
Cities in Vermont and Maine are experiencing some of the same tactics that ICE has been using across Minnesota since December, and facing lots of resistance.
“Socialism or barbarism” is a phrase we‘ve all heard many times. But it’s never felt it so viscerally true before now.
From @tninstitute.bsky.social, the emerging global coalition supporting the recognition, restitution, redistribution and regulation of land as one of the most important sources of wealth in the modern world
www.tni.org/en/article/i...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon tells Congress the first week of the Iran war cost the US $11.3 billion, an AP source says.
One might say lack of competition. One might say oligopolistic markets. One might say a lack of effective regulation
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
Go get 'em.
crucial coverage from The Guardian that features our collaborative, movement-building website
against-a-i.com
NEW @npr.org: An internal government watchdog and members of Congress are separately investigating new allegations that a Department of Government Efficiency staffer potentially misused sensitive Social Security data.
Would it shock you that people who leave their home country to avoid paying tax would abandon their companion animals when the going got too tough?
Me neither
Your taxpayer dollars at work. 😡
There should be universal outrage over the 165 Iranian girls who were killed by what evidence indicates was a U.S. strike.
Instead, Trump lied about it, and we’re just supposed to move on? These were children.
If Iran bombed a school near a U.S. military base, it would be our new Pearl Harbor.
Health Canada reviewing deaths of two people who donated plasma at private centres in Winnipeg. Grifols, which operates the centres, says it's co-operating with the government and doing its own investigation, by @hannay.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco... via @theglobeandmail.com
NEWS: It was never about the children.
Transgender adults now face care restrictions after the ruling of the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia.
www.advocate.com/news/court-b...
This is, unfortunately, the truth
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
10/ The past four years have seen more violent conflict than at any time since the end of World War II, according to the Uppsala conflict data program. Conflicts have broken out in many continents. In Africa, there have been over half a dozen coups, with combat fighting in the Congo and Sudan...
This is why there is a 'world war' aspect:
The US-led order is at war with the confrontation states - Russia, China, Iran.
It has a limited capacity of Interceptors, munitions, THAAD air defense, drones etc.
Hence: Theater prioritization
"Iran war may leave Ukraine without critical air defenses"
