@effebbi.bsky.social
Researcher on public policies, culture&creativity, gender equality, PSM, AI and much more www.flaviabarca.it
Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Scientists say the evidence linking climate change to individual companies' emissions is now strong enough to stand up in court.
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Amid war and sanctions, Syria’s health care system has collapsed.
These new photos from Jacobin’s correspondent in Syria show how, in the absence of a functioning state, volunteers and doctors have become the last line of defense 👇
New book forthcoming in summer 2025... published by @uniwestpress.bsky.social
services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/W/Worl...
Laura Santi ha detto che dovrà andare in Svizzera per poter accedere al suicidio assistito dal momento che nella sua regione, l’Umbria, finora le è stato impossibile nonostante ne abbia diritto
29.04.2025 15:40 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2E poi vai a visitare Corfù e rimarrai incantato...
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Vedere una città con gli occhi delle donne: il Comune di Bologna pubblica l'Atlante di genere
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New study on misrepresentation of global south. “Most commercial detection tools, and even models developed by academic researchers, are trained on datasets collected in and about the Global North. […] Cultural nuances and references from regions in the Global South are often lost in the process.“
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This article by Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein has already been repeatedly shared and commented and deserves to, it pinpoints with sharp focus the traits of the neoreactionary ideology
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
“For far-right women, there is no such thing as body positivity or body neutrality. Thinness is a moral imperative; it shows dominance over the body and aligns oneself with European beauty standards”
Read the full op-ed here 👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/far-right...
Giusta causa
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L' "indiscutibile" superiorità dell'Occidente...
www.editorialedomani.it/idee/comment...
A quanto pare funziona, nonostante ormai in molti tendano a ignorare i "dialogatori". In Italia rimane uno dei principali canali di finanziamento per le ong:
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A stellar panel of Robert Pogue Harrison, Tobias Wolf, Laura Wittman, & Bryan Cheong will discuss Dino Buzzati's The Singularity next Thursday (4/17) at Stanford University (Levinthal Hall) and streaming online.
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The federal government knows your mother’s maiden name, your bank account number, the student debt you hold and more. President Trump and Elon Musk are trying to connect these records, raising the prospect of creating a kind of data trove about Americans that the government has never had before.
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La prima rettrice araba in un’università israeliana: «Sono cristiana, maronita e donna. Mai fatto parte di una maggioranza»
09.04.2025 21:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Big Tech behind most lobbying in Brussels
A new analysis from non-profit Corporate Europe Observatory and Lobby Control shows 162 corporations + trade associations declaring over 1 million euro of annual expenditure on EU lobbying, all together spent more than 340 million euro (Feb 2024 - Feb 2025)
Taxing the rich more is difficult but it's necessary
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NEW:The tech billionaire and Trump adviser “donated” Starlink service to the White House. The move resembles a previous maneuver by Microsoft, which used “free” trials to lock in costly upgrades across the federal government.
By @reneedudley.bsky.social
Their hope is that out of the fear and instability instilled in Trump’s America will come something more positive: a whole new strategy centered around building community, a new collective action.
The Black Panther cubs know
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
More on this at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Choice has been the key social technology & ideology organizing late-modern economy, culture & society. In my new paper @theoryculturesociety.org I explore how algorithmic prediction decenters choice and what cultural & political implications this transformation could have (1/4)
Il partito del primo ministro ungherese Viktor Orbán ha proposto di vietare il Pride per legge
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The Trump administration’s arrest of Mahmoud Khalil over his protests at Columbia University against Israel’s war in Gaza has alarmed First Amendment attorneys who see it as an obvious violation of Khalil’s rights but also an effort to intimidate others.
13.03.2025 21:09 — 👍 290 🔁 70 💬 19 📌 4Elite institutions and universities, tasked with reproducing this system and training the next generation to defend and sustain it, have transformed into surveillance mechanisms, ensuring that voices of resistance are eradicated to enable the atrocities committed abroad.
13.03.2025 17:54 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0The university is not just a site of repression—it is a site of struggle. We must recognize it as such and rise to reclaim power over these institutions or, where necessary, dismantle and disrupt them.
13.03.2025 17:55 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 08 marzo
www.quirinale.it/elementi/128...
Maria Serena Sapegno: «L’accademia tollera le donne. Ma il patriarcato resiste»
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Santé des femmes : le microbiote vaginal, un sujet crucial «sur les plans scientifique, sanitaire et sociétal»
L’organisme, peuplé naturellement de bactéries présentes dans les organes génitaux féminins, fait l’objet de recherches qui peinent à trouver des financements suffisants.
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