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"When you focus on growth in GDP as your primary goal without any concern for whether what creates that growth is of real value rather than simply being capable of being counted, whilst being indifferent to the distribution of the gains, those already vulnerable are bound to suffer as a consequence... The policy failure this chart exposes is not an accident; it will be achieved by #Labour by d…

Labour is failing people by hidden design. Reform would do so explicitly.
As The Guardian notes this morning: The country’s most deprived neighbourhoods will have higher crime rates and worse unemployment by the end of the parliament, according to a report written at the request of No. 10 Downing Street. No. 10 has apparently focused its attention on what are called

"But they stop short of examining the forces that may be actually driving the minerals agenda: tech billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, who see Greenland not just as a source of rare earths, but as a laboratory for their libertarian economic and social experiments. These tech-billionaires envision unregulated “freedom cities” in Greenland, free from democratic oversight, environmental laws, and labor protections."

In 1 jaar grenscontroles werd met inzet van 5.350 marechaussees 500 mensen toegang tot Nederland geweigerd. Volgens burgemeester Diepemaat van gemeente Losser is dat weinig resultaat. Hij ziet deze inzet liever gebruikt voor criminaliteit in zijn regio.
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Burgemeester gemeente Losser is na 1 jaar kritisch op grenscontroles: 'Veel overlast, weinig resultaat'
In 1 jaar grenscontroles werd met inzet van 5.350 marechaussees 500 mensen toegang tot Nederland geweigerd. Volgens burgemeester Diepemaat van gemeente Losse...

False choice (with a value judgment in its wording).
You can, & should, continue to raise demonstrable & valid concerns about the accessibility of LLM output and _also_ consider if (or how) you can improve it (he offers options).
But no free labor from me.
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Shoutout to all the companies this year who are on-track to blow way past their regretted attrition targets but in, like, a bad way???
Damn, it’s like they know the price of everything but the value of nothing — and certainly not the value of skilled, organized labor at all levels. Die mad, I guess

Word of the day: AI-washing
"Where management wants to cut labor costs a la Amazon, shift to cheaper contract labor a la Klarna, or execute layoffs for ideological reasons, a la DOGE, “AI” is an extremely potent justification. Some business professors and analysts have taken to calling this practice “AI-washing.””
From Brian Merchants excellent Blood in the Machine newsletter/substack.

Cyclo-logistique en Belgique
- plus de 5 millions de colis livrés Š vélo en Belgique, soit 70 % de plus qu’en 2023
- 10 millions de km parcourus par des coursiers Š vélo, soit 30 % de plus
- 4112 tonnes de CO₂ évitées et 12 millions € de coûts externes économisés
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Souveränität entsteht nicht durch Sonntagsreden, sondern durch unbequeme Entscheidungen: Open Source statt Standard-Microsoft, europäische Clouds statt hyperscaler-first, Datenschutz als Standortvorteil statt „Hindernis“. Im neuen Beitrag zu #9vor9 geht es um Länder, die vorangehen, um Bayern, das lieber beim Alten bleibt, und um einen „Digitalen Omnibus“, der eher Datenkonzerne glücklich macht al…

Digitale Souveränität? Europa träumt, Amerika handelt – und Bayern macht’s mit Microsoft
Viel Pathos auf dem Gipfel zur digitalen Souveränität, doch die Realität spricht eine andere Sprache: Ob Microsoft 365 in Bayern oder Milliarden-Investitionen der Hyperscaler in Deutschland – Europ…

ANN: New Publication 'Ed Maespiritu tan Matua: Don Juan Alvear and the rise of Christian spiritism in the Philippines and Asia'
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