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Tansu Çiller, and the corruption of her neoliberal government, was one of the primary drivers of the neoliberalism-to-fascism pipeline* in Turkey that exacerbated inequality, alienated and marginalised huge swaths of the population, and eventually led to Erdoğan’s fascist/Islamist takeover.
Carve her name, indeed; right next to Margaret Thatcher’s.
* Sound familiar, Americans?
#tansuCiller

CarveHerName (@CarveHerName@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image #OnThisDay, 25 June 1993, Tansu Çiller wins a vote of confidence to become prime minister of Turkey. She was the first woman to hold the post. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory

Not a #social #media researcher, but this seems wrong on many levels.
https://fediscience.org/@tsch…

"the additional expenditure on the NHS is not about improving our living standards, but about correcting the physical consequences of the appalling food that the neoliberal food supply industry is delivering to us, which is grossly detrimental to our health. We are not, in other words, better off as a consequence of this additional expenditure" -- @…

Neoliberalism is consuming our well-being
As The Guardian has noted: Britain is on track to become a “National Health State” where half of all public spending is allocated to the NHS and social care by the end of the decade, according to a leading thinktank. They added: As the chancellor came under pressure on Thursday to defend her...

🔫 From Civil Wars to Neoliberalism in Central America
#globalsouth

From Civil Wars to Neoliberalism in Central America
The end of the bloody, US-backed civil wars across Central America led to a brutal neoliberal economic restructuring near the turn of the century — which then helped produce the 21st-century authoritarianism of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele.

Current episode of the Citations Needed podcast on the "Abundance" talking point is really good.
"Abundance" is Neoliberalism and trickle down economics with a new coat of (lead) paint.
https://pca.st/episode/c8a05dc1-3b04-4255-b978-cf76bf40e…

In Jason Henderson's 2013 book Street Fight he writes of SF transportation politics as a function of 3 factions: conservatives, neoliberals, progressives. How the street fights go depends on how those factions align. If you slot in YIMBYish urbanist types—those who are pro-bike, pro-business, believe that Dean Preston was blocking housing—as the neoliberals, this holds up surprisingly well today.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Nilüfer Yanya:
🎵 Cold Heart
#NowPlaying #NilüferYanya
https://niluferyanya.bandcamp.com/track/cold-heart
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WRdonm8caliL2JA6fT2fL

"So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand."
"Using AI is not about communicating. It’s about avoiding communicating. It’s about not reading, not writing, not drawing, not seeing. It’s about ceding our powers of expression and comprehension to digital apps that will cushion us from fully participating in our own lives."

Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?
So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Nelly Furtado:
🎵 Say It Right
#NowPlaying #NellyFurtado
https://hylo.bandcamp.com/track/nelly-furtado-say-it-right-hylo-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/2aI21FnmY7TJVKeMaoQZ0t
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