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Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospects for Degrowth, of the original article: Decrecer ¿callejón o salida? La futura estafa del capital’ (2-5-2025) Translated by Mark Burton and Anna Gregoletto For a radically anti-capitalist degrowth that cannot be…

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospect…

Microsoft plans to invest $30B in capital expenditures in Q1, which would be its largest for a single quarter, after reporting $24.2B in capital spending in Q4 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-pl…

A Society Governed by Whiny Rich People Throwing Tantrums https://jacobin.com/2025/07/ultrarich-oligarchy-capital-flight-mamdani/
💯🔥: “Capital flight is an important political and economic question for anyone thinking about legislating as a lefti…

A Society Governed by Whiny Rich People Throwing Tantrums
Every time we want to change society to benefit average people, we have to deal with ultrawealthy crybabies. We’re held hostage by those who already have it all. It doesn’t have to be like this.

Me: you should always capitalize acronyms, it's called “ICE” or “NATO” not “Ice” and “Nato”
Them: so you capitalize “LASER” too?
Me: uhhh, well, it's different you know—

AI isn’t an existential threat to humanity, capitalism and corporations are.
You see, we created capitalism, a religion modeled on cancer, and the corporation, a new, artificial species; a parasite that co-opts human beings to do its bidding; an organism that’s psychopathic by design and grows by extracting from and exploiting us and our habitat.
And we now find ourselves ruled by this religion and driven to ruin by these parasites as they drain our humanity, destroy our habitat,…

Tramway de Québec - le contrat d’Alstom pour les trains faits Š La Pocatière est maintenu
https://www.lesoleil.com/actualites/actualites-locales/la-capitale/20…

What do the #Trump|ist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the #MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. Benjamin Braun and Cédric Durand about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline.

The Human Capital Ontology (Extended Abstract)
Shane Babcock, Maxwell Farrington, John Gugliotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21175 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

The Human Capital Ontology (Extended Abstract)
The Human Capital Ontology (HCO) is an ontology that represents data standards maintained and employed by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to represent Human Capital Operations and to classify job positions. The HCO is an extension of the Common Core Ontologies and the upper level Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). HCO provides representation of OPM Nature of Action (NOA) codes that are used to describe human resource personnel actions. HCO also represents Occupational Groups and Job Families…

Boston-based cloud cost management startup CloudZero raised a $56M Series C led by BlueCrest Capital Management and Innovius Capital (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/05/…

Exclusive: CloudZero raises $56M to tame cloud costs
Companies' cloud spending has shot up because of AI rollouts.

Beware diluted, fake, scam "degrowth". Insist on the real thing.
New piece in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series.
"Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam" – #degrowthUK

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospect…