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Madlen Nikolova
@madlenik.bsky.social
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UNI Europa | Brussels
interested in labour and law and political economy
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progintl.bsky.social
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.

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Only a movement millions strong can stop Baerbock's presidency at the United Nations General Assembly.
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July 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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danielagabor.bsky.social
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'
July 7, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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proufos.bsky.social
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.
April 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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danieldenvir.bsky.social
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...
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...
www.thedigradio.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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danielagabor.bsky.social
no derisking state, no green hydrogen
February 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
madlenik.bsky.social
🤡The EU budget would derisk the investment of other partners.🤡
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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...
ec.europa.eu
February 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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edzitron.com
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/
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...
www.wheresyoured.at
January 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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edzitron.com
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...
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”.
January 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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ainowinstitute.bsky.social
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
January 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
madlenik.bsky.social
'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...
The rise of nuclear powered batteries
Companies vie to create small plants for deployment to sites from data centres to oil platforms
www.ft.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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graceblakeley.substack.com
Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all.

It’s all about labour 🧵
January 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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moneyontheleft.bsky.social
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...
December 6, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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abenanav.bsky.social
I love @edzitron.com's newsletter. If you want to keep up with the latest on the AI bubble, don't miss this.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Dec 3
Newsletter: We're at peak AI - generative AI models have hit the wall where they won’t improve much further thanks to a lack of training data, killer apps or any kind of sustainable business model.

The results of a collapse could be catastrophic.
wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it
Godot Isn't Making it
Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I didn’t write the title. What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new ...
wheresyoured.at
December 4, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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lwestheuser.bsky.social
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-...
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.
December 3, 2024 at 3:14 PM
madlenik.bsky.social
'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...
Gavin Rae, Contra Populism? — Sidecar
Donald Tusk’s Poland.
newleftreview.org
December 2, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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elpais.com
🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Glovo anuncia que abandona su modelo de falsos autónomos un día antes de que su fundador declare en un proceso penal
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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
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December 2, 2024 at 8:30 AM
madlenik.bsky.social
'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...
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...
www.crisesnotes.com
November 29, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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nathantankus.bsky.social
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!

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November 28, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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uni-europa.bsky.social
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.
‘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.
www.uni-europa.org
November 29, 2024 at 7:43 AM
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historyned.bsky.social
"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:
Cover of the book Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies featuring an abstract piece of art by Kasimir Malevich
November 28, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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lpeblog.bsky.social
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.
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…
lpeproject.org
November 25, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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rosiecollington.bsky.social
(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 ⚙️⛓️‍💥💸

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November 22, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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uni-europa.bsky.social
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...
Behind the beauty routine
While social media fuels the booming beauty industry, who supports the workers keeping both alive?
www.ips-journal.eu
November 19, 2024 at 11:02 AM