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Darius Ada

@dariusada.bsky.social
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Sociologist. Interested in (intellectual) property and wealth inequality.

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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gemeinsam mit über 200 Professorinnen und Professoren deutscher Hochschulen haben wir heute einen offenen Brief an die Bundesregierung gerichtet, um die Gründung eines Internationalen Ungleichheitsgremiums der Vereinten Nationen zu unterstützen. Die SZ berichtet: www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/u...
Screenshot of two articles: An Interview with Joseph Stiglitz and coverage of the open letter written by German professors
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Surplus | Das Wirtschaftsmagazin @surplusmagazin.de · 05/09/2026
Der Hype rund um KI und Datenzentren verteuert Technik wie Smartphones, Laptops und Konsolen. Die Leidtragenden sind die Verbraucherinnen.
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Der KI-Boom macht Elektronik für Verbraucher teurer
Der Hype rund um KI und Datenzentren verteuert Technik wie Smartphones, Laptops und Konsolen. Die Leidtragenden sind die Verbraucherinnen.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 26/08/2026
Some people on here really need to go touch graph.
A graph with a green noisy line that looks like grass. X-axis label "x", Y-axis label "y"
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Surplus | Das Wirtschaftsmagazin @surplusmagazin.de · 28/06/2026
Der Staat gilt als bürokratisch, private Unternehmen als innovativ. Doch zentrale Innovationen wären ohne öffentliches Handeln nicht möglich.
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Nein, private Unternehmen sind nicht innovativer als der Staat
Der Staat gilt als bürokratisch, private Unternehmen als innovativ. Doch zentrale Innovationen wären ohne öffentliches Handeln nicht möglich.
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ISI: Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research @isi-munich.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Officially opening the doors of @isi-munich.bsky.social with Jim and Cathy Stone today.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
when i need to justify my anti-IP position in the future i will tell people it is because i am catholic
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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
NVIDIA follows the Apple strategy of turning profits and market cap into control via investment and lending over its supplier (and here also customer) base. financial times, 20 may 26

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	Nvidia is deploying unprecedented sums to tighten its grip on the artificial intelligence industry, committing roughly $90bn to dealmaking over the past 16 months as chief executive Jensen Huang becomes one of the biggest funders of AI groups reliant on its chips.

The world’s most valuable listed company committed about $47bn to investments and partnerships in the year to January 25 and has earmarked a further $43bn in the four months since, according to company disclosures and PitchBook data.

The spending spans more than 145 companies, from AI model developers and cloud providers to suppliers building the infrastructure underpinning the boom. “They are funding everyone,” said a Silicon Valley banker. 
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/04/2026
> The CC licenses were not designed with the scale and growing harms caused by the dominant, profit-driven approaches to AI in mind. [And] do not capture the full range of intentions creators have in this AI-mediated world.
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🚨 Picking through the Fed's enhanced finl a/cs to work out who owes what, and to whom. www.ft.com/content/4021...
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 31/03/2026
BlackRock said it was “incredibly excited” to “partner with GMPF to accelerate the availability of private capital for these essential assets”. Okay but I’m *not* excited to accelerate the availability of essential public assets to private capital. www.ft.com/content/1cdc...
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LMU München @lmu.de · 19/03/2026
Wie verlässlich sind sozialwissenschaftliche Ergebnisse? 📊 Eine LMU-Studie unter Leitung von @kauspurg.bsky.social zeigt: Oft fehlen Code und Dokumentation, sodass viele Befunde nur schwer reproduzierbar sind. Mehr #Transparenz und #OpenScience sollen das ändern. #LMU www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...
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Wie sich sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung besser nachrechnen lässt
Eine LMU-Studie unter der Leitung von Soziologin Katrin Auspurg zeigt, warum Ergebnisse oft schwer reproduzierbar sind und welche Maßnahmen helfen, die Zuverlässigkeit zu verbessern.
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 19/03/2026
"Our study’s policy recommendation is straightforward: a permanent excess profit tax on oil and gas, defined as returns above a specified threshold. ... taxing only the 2022 incremental US profits would have yielded $225bn ... enough to nearly double American clean energy investment that year."
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Darius Ada @dariusada.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Ich weiß ja nicht
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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
pleased to announce the merger of @erikpeinert.bsky.social (antitrust) and my (corporate organization / franchise) interests in a paper on what the end of regulation banning vertical restraints meant for the US political economy = not good ! academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
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Strong Intellectual Property and Weak Antitrust: How the End of Vertical Restraints Fissured the US Political Economy
Abstract. What explains rising inequality after 1980? Explanations describing immediate causes, like skill-biased technological change, financialization, o
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
New piece on Chinese tech investment in Europe — fittingly out the day the Commission publishes the Industrial Accelerator Act, kicking off months of legislative wrangling. A look at the data and recent cases shows Europe has learned to block Chinese takeovers of tech & semiconductor assets. 1/
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Ada E. @lingeringlilac.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
sketch of my fiancé
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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Scam stage of capitalism
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
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Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Peak-Profit
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Lukas Scholle @lukasscholle.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
2025 war ein Wahnsinnsjahr für die deutschen Milliardäre: Ihr Vermögen wuchs mit 30 % fast doppelt (!) so schnell, wie das Vermögen des Globalen Durchschnittsmilliardärs mit 16 %. Dieses Wachstum ist absurd gefährlich, weil es die Ungleichheitskrise weiter verschärft.
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Darius Ada @dariusada.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
This week I had a welcome excuse to be in Venice during the semester while visiting the Analytical Sociology seminar at VIU. I especially enjoyed the conversations during the poster sessions.
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Darius Ada @dariusada.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I spent the last two days at the ISI Wealth Conference. All the talks I attended were super insightful and it was great to hear so many different perspectives and see the exciting new research on wealth inequality! @isi-munich.bsky.social
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ISI: Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research @isi-munich.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Day 1. #isiwealthconference2025 #isimunich
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Darius Ada @dariusada.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Had a great time at my first summer school at the LMU Open Science Center @lmu-osc.bsky.social. I learned a lot of new things that I hope to implement in my master's thesis and beyond. And of course I hope to see more Open Science in Sociology :)
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LMU Open Science Center @lmu-osc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
First day of the Open Science Summer School 2025 complete ✅ Participants learned a lot today but there’s still a lot more in store, you can join in for the public lectures by registering here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS... #OpenScience #OSSS25 #LMUOSC
Two female organisers of the Open Science Summer School, Dr. Sarah von Grebmer in a dark green top and black pants and Dr. Malika Ihle in a white top and dark blue pants, stand in front of the green and white Open Science Center sign. Behind the sign is a brown wall to its right and a black door to its left.Male speaker, Prof. Dr. Felix Schoenbrodt, wearing glasses, a dark blue shirt, and brown pants stands behind a laptop near a mic at the front of the room with a projected screen behind him explaining data as forking paths. Items such as name tags are seen on the table at the front of the room and the backs of participants’ heads are seen at the bottom of the picture.
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Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Ultra-late capitalism in a nutshell. (Source: FT)
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
July 4th, 2025
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Bildungschancen hängen in Deutschland vom Wohnort ab. Eine neue Studie von @iwkoeln.bsky.social und MPIfG zeigt: In wohlhabenden Stadtteilen gibt es ein Drittel mehr Kitas als in ärmeren Vierteln – ausgerechnet dort, wo frühkindliche Bildung am dringendsten gebraucht wird. s.gwdg.de/yTozrZ
Deutschlandkarte mit Punkten in Ampelfarben: "Wo die Kita-Versorgung gut ist - und wo nicht". Städte in Süddeutschland schneiden besser ab, NRW und östlichen Bundesländer schlechter.
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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · 09/04/2025
"A 2% tax on billionaires is a first step – but it’s important not to stop there. Building public confidence in the idea that it's truly possible to target the ultra-wealthy - billionaires in particular - is essential.", said @thomaspiketty.bsky.social at #TaxingBillionaires conference [1/2]
Photo of Thomas PIketty speaking at the Taxing Billionaires Conference
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UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
@ingridrobeyns.bsky.social urged us to grasp today’s wealth concentration by converting the fortune of the world’s richest person into the number of homes it could buy. In Chicago, that is approx. 1.3 million homes – more than all the homes in the city. Watch: bit.ly/3DFoATQ Read: bit.ly/3DJntTa
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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
About 3 months ago, the print version of this article had this lead: "Elon Musk has 240 billion in wealth [...] is there no upper limit?" Today, the same article came online with a small update: "Elon Musk has 400 billion in wealth [...] is there no upper limit?" www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
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Not a level playing field
LMU sociologist Fabian Pfeffer explains why the extreme wealth gap harms society and democracy and leads to a distinctly uneven spread of opportunities for coming generations. From the research magazi...
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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Yes! Taxing the super-rich is possible. 💪 🌍 Some governments are already doing it. 📜 The G20 has made a historic commitment. 🇺🇳 Most countries support new global tax rules at the UN. Let’s make it happen: buff.ly/42uqfp8 #TaxTheSuperRich
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Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
"The gap between the richest and poorest may not be widening, but it is not irrational for the middle classes to feel their position in society is in decline." As always, an excellent piece by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
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Inequality hasn’t risen. Here’s why it feels like it has
What appears on the surface to be a flat trend masks churn beneath
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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · 28/11/2024
📉Since 1980, global inequality between countries has dropped👉The income gap between the richest 10% of countries & the poorest 50% shrank from 20x to 9x. 📈 But within countries, inequality soared👉The gap between the top 10% & bottom 50% nearly doubled from 10x to 18x. wid.world #inequalitydata
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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
An incentivized redistribution experiment with university students in China and France reveals differences in the way merit- and luck-based inequalities are perceived. Read the WP by Margot Belguise, @yuchenhuang.bsky.social & GC Stone Center postdoc @zhexunmo.bsky.social. #econsky bit.ly/4fQ1DLp
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ISI: Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research @isi-munich.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Coverage of our opening event last week "Extreme inequality isn't inevitable. There have been times when wealth inequality in Germany shrunk, such as after WWII [...] also driven by the 'Lastenausgleich,' likely the most radical redistribution effort of Germany" www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/v...
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Thomas Piketty in München: Wie sich Vermögensungleichheit bekämpfen lässt.
Führende Wissenschaftler wie Thomas Piketty diskutieren über Ungleichheit. Das Vorbild: der Lastenausgleich.
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