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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 04/02/2026
”While it is a familiar warning from civil libertarians that surveillance tools introduced in one narrow context will quickly be deployed in other, more worrying ways, immigration agents appear already to have made that jump,” David Wallace-Wells writes.
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Opinion | ICE’s Surveillance State Isn’t Tracking Only Immigrants
The nationwide nativist dragnet has a long list of targets.
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johnfurlan.bsky.social @johnfurlan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
V informative, too complacent. Precisely Mafia Don lack of large Congress, popular majorities, w his megalomania, that makes him so dangerous. Chance he'll create "emergency," eg false flag provocation over ICE/BP, which Heinrich Miller, Bovino were trying to do in Minn, to invoke Insurrection Act.
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johnfurlan.bsky.social @johnfurlan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Mafia Don, Heinrich Miller, Nasty Noem asked, "who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?" Except for MAGA cult, most Americans have chosen their own eyes. That might lead to more general public epiphany about rest of Trump's lies. But Dems, led by Bibi Schumer, still not viable opposition
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johnfurlan.bsky.social @johnfurlan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Military, real law enforcement, should be disgusted with these cosplay warrior masked thugs of Mafia Don, Heinrich Miller, Nasty Noem. They are giving you all a very bad rep. "Thank you for your service" doesn't apply to them.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 25/01/2026
The Trump administration seeks to induce “constant fear — a fear of violence from which some people may at a given moment be spared, but from which no one will ever be truly safe,” writes our columnist M. Gessen. “State terror has arrived.”
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Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
Minneapolis has made it plain.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 25/01/2026
“The public face of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a brutal, paramilitary force of masked men who hunt immigrants and terrorize American cities on behalf of the president of the United States,” writes our columnist Jamelle Bouie. “The not-so-public face is somehow even worse.”
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Opinion | The Cruelty Is the Point for ICE
What’s happening behind the barbed wire?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/01/2026
Key Senate Democrats vowed to oppose legislation that would avert a government shutdown at the end of the week, and includes billions in funding for Homeland Security and ICE, after federal agents shot and killed a Minneapolis man on Saturday. nyti.ms/3LXFmS2
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Democrats Refuse to Fund ICE After Shooting, Imperiling Spending Deal
Key Senate Democrats vowed to oppose legislation needed to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the week after federal agents shot and killed a Minneapolis resident.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/01/2026
Videos verified by The New York Times show the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday was holding a phone, not a gun, before the agents took him to the ground and shot him. At least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
In a screengrab from a video, Alex Jeffrey Pretti is seen holding a phone as agents approach him. A headline reads: "How Federal Agents Shot And Killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, Moment by Moment." Credit: dangjessie, via Instagram
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/01/2026
A person who said they witnessed federal agents shoot and kill Alex Jeffrey Pretti submitted a sworn statement in court disputing the federal government’s account of the shooting. “I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong,” the person said in the statement.
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In Court Filings, Witnesses Describe Fatal Minneapolis Shooting of Alex Pretti
The filings raise further questions about the federal government’s narrative of what happened before federal agents shot Alex Jeffrey Pretti on Saturday.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 06/01/2026
President Trump’s culture war represents “a significant consolidation of executive authority beyond formal governmental boundaries,” Shari Berman tells Thomas Edsall.
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Opinion | Trump Is Pushing a Culture War That Knows No Bounds
The president is deploying his domineering tactics in unexpected places.
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johnfurlan.bsky.social @johnfurlan.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
And yet the impotent liberal Dems did what with this well-advertised raid?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/12/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The Trump administration had adopted policies condemning a sizable group of its core MAGA supporters — miners, firemen, manufacturing workers — to slow deaths from diseases that cut off their ability to breath,” Thomas B. Edsall writes.
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Opinion | Trump’s War on Public Health Is a Battle to the Death
The war on public health is a battle to the death.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 23/12/2025
“The Trump administration had adopted policies condemning a sizable group of its core MAGA supporters — miners, firemen, manufacturing workers — to slow deaths from diseases that cut off their ability to breath,” Thomas B. Edsall writes.
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Opinion | Trump’s War on Public Health Is a Battle to the Death
The MAHA pipe dream is going to hurt MAGA the most.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/12/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “In an administration known for its erratic adoption and sudden abandonment of policies, Trump has demonstrated an unwavering determination to enhance the fortunes of the rich,” Thomas Edsall writes.
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Opinion | The Trump Mind-Set Is Not Complex
Gimme, gimme, gimme. Gimme some more.
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johnfurlan.bsky.social @johnfurlan.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Does it matter as long as Dems are just as uncool? Dems inflicted on US two terms of Mafia Don. Are they sorry? Has anything changed? At bare minimum, to take them seriously, they need to dump Schumer, de facto agent for a war criminal, and renounce woke bs that helped elect Trump. Fool me once, etc
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 19/12/2025
Here is the story that inspired this second investigation Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
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Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/12/2025
The Biden administration repeatedly rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that helped return President Trump to the White House, a New York Times examination found. Former officials in his administration said that Biden and his confidants made two crucial errors.
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How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration
The Democratic president and his top advisers rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that helped return Donald Trump to the White House.
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johnfurlan.bsky.social @johnfurlan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
From my post: "I hoped hundreds of videos of Mafia Don's illegal masked thugs racial profiling Latinos, manhandling people, etc would have provoked much larger protests by woke Gens Y/Z, similar to Floyd video in 2020...So why not?" x.com/jfurlan14/st...
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 16/11/2025
In a cost-of-living crisis, the question for policymakers “isn’t whether to intervene, but how to do so in a way that delivers relief today without creating new problems tomorrow,” Neale Mahoney and Bharat Ramamurti write.
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Opinion | Economists Hate This Idea. It Could Be a Way Out of the Affordability Crisis.
Voters are demanding short-term price relief, and temporary price controls may be the only viable way to provide it
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 18/11/2025
The excesses of America’s most powerful people “would end sooner if more Americans saw what Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk are doing: ushering in a new era of brazenness that will persist as long as people buy the hype and cheer the flexes,” William Cohan writes.
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Opinion | Elon Musk Can’t Possibly Deserve His $1 Trillion Payday
In the face of shareholders, corporate boards and even judges, Tesla’s chief executive shows what he can get away with.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 18/11/2025
“Project 2025 makes very clear that the administration intends to capture higher education for ideological purposes,” Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan, says in a round table discussion with two other leaders of American universities.
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Opinion | ‘We Need to Be Worried’: Three University Leaders on the Fate of Higher Education in the Trump Era
The view from Dartmouth, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wesleyan.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 19/11/2025
“If historians someday try to identify exactly when China became America’s geopolitical equal, they might point to the outcome of Mr. Trump’s ill-considered trade war,” Rush Doshi writes.
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Opinion | Trump’s Trade War Showed That China Can Stand Up to America
His ill-conceived tariff war exposed U.S. vulnerabilities, strengthened China’s leverage and undermined America at a pivotal time.
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Initiative for Policy Dialogue @ipdcolumbia.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Just out: New G20 report led by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social warns of an “Inequality Emergency.” It calls for an International Panel on Inequality as global shocks deepen poverty and widen wealth gaps. Read report here: ipdcolumbia.org/event/landma... #Inequality #G20
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
It was a great honor today to present to @cyrilramaphosabsky.bsky.social the report of the G20's Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts on Global Inequality. Inequality is a choice. We can choose to remedy it. @ipdcolumbia.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/0s-aJou...
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PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA RECEIVES REPORT OF G20 TASK TEAM ON INEQUALITY
YouTube video by The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa
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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · 14/11/2025
🔴 Over 500 economists, including WIL co-director @thomaspiketty.bsky.social, call on world leaders to set up an International Panel on Inequality, as recommended by the Extraordinary Committee's report to the #G20, led by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social 🔗Letter www.equals.ink/p/sign-on-le...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15/10/2025
The Trump regime wants us to be afraid, but we’re on track to make Saturday the biggest day of peaceful protest in modern US history. There are No Kings events almost everywhere — join us to make it clear we won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
President Donald Trump, Republican officials, and their right-wing media allies have laid the groundwork for a broadbased attack on core progressive and Democratic Party institutions in response to Saturday’s planned nationwide “No Kings” protests. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
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The Trump administration is positioning the upcoming No Kings protests as an excuse for crushing dissent
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johnfurlan.bsky.social @johnfurlan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Mafia Don comes across here as super sensitive snowflake who can't stand even mildest criticism, wants to cancel those he dislikes. Similar to woke faux left cancel culture for years before peak woke in 2021. The huge difference being, of course, that Trump is using the enormous power of the state.
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johnfurlan.bsky.social @johnfurlan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
In my review of Dan Wang's Breakneck, I argue that China’s trajectory looks less unique—and less puzzling—when viewed through the lens of the developmental state, a framework long used to explain the (also building-heavy) rise of Japan and Korea. www.valueadded.tech/p/is-china-a...
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Is China an Engineering or Developmental State?
Breakneck is excellent, but could use a touch more developmental thinking.
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
In this new piece, I explain why focusing only on red tape and proceduralism (as the Abundance thesis does) misses the bigger story about the American Political Economy and fails to explain the staggering build out of data centers across the country. www.valueadded.tech/p/america-ca...
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America can still build (data centers)
The Abundance thesis is that America can't build anymore, so how do we explain the surge of data center construction across the country?
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johnfurlan.bsky.social @johnfurlan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Just published a reintroduction to my newsletter, highlighting some of the key cross-cutting themes that tie my interests together. www.valueadded.tech/p/re-introdu...
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Re-introducing Value Added
And a short guide to some of the key themes of this newsletter.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/09/2025
Breaking News: In a win for Harvard University, a judge said that the government broke the law by freezing billions of dollars in research funds.
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Judge Issues Ruling Helpful to Harvard in Case Against Trump
Harvard had sued the Trump administration in an effort to restore billions in research funds that the government canceled this spring.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/09/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “This is a time to rally to protect the health of every American,” nine former CDC directors write in a guest essay.
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
Agency leaders sound the alarm.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 31/08/2025
“There is bipartisan agreement in the United States that Sudan is suffering both genocide and famine — and also, apparently, a bipartisan consensus to do little about it,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.
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Opinion | In Sudan, No One Doubts That This Is Genocide
Both the Biden and Trump administrations have described Sudan as suffering genocide. And no one’s done much about it.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 31/08/2025
“For the first time in decades, the United States is the common foe of almost every political faction in India,” Kapil Komireddi writes.
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Opinion | Trump Has Obliterated America’s 30-Year Courtship of India
India must decide whether go all in with a capricious Trump or hedge its bets through a rapprochement with China.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/08/2025
A group of 19 Democratic governors on Thursday condemned President Trump’s threat to send National Guard troops into major cities like Chicago, Baltimore and New York as an “alarming abuse of power.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois is standing in front of a lectern. A headline reads: "19 Democratic Governors Warn Trump Not to Send Troops to Their States." Photo by Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times
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Colby Smith @colbylsmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Cook has filed a lawsuit against Trump for trying to oust her (Powell/Fed are defendants for their ability to carry it out). The basis for cause has not been proven, nor was Cook given due process, it says www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/b... @nytimes.com @bencasselman.bsky.social @tonyromm.bsky.social
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Fed Governor Lisa Cook Sues Trump Over Dismissal
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 27/08/2025
“I don’t know how we got to the point where 35 percent to 40 percent of the country thinks using politics as a way to impose physical harm on people who they think are on the other side or enemies is standard political discourse now,” Radley Balko says on this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”
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Opinion | Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force
The journalist Radley Balko explains the mechanisms Trump is using to create a personal army.
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johnfurlan.bsky.social @johnfurlan.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
While "weak, woke and whiney" Dems definitely in need of a spine against Trump's blitzkrieg, brandishing "national security" credentials not best way to show it, since "patriotic" service usually been for illegal, immoral US wars, now all-time low in collusion w baby murderer, war criminal Netanyahu
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Eric Schmitt @erschm.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Trump's order appears to carve out a much larger role for the National Guard in domestic law enforcement across the country www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
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Trump Orders Major Expansion of National Guard’s Role in Law Enforcement
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/08/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “While A.I. capabilities have made extraordinary leaps since the debut of ChatGPT in 2022, science has yet to find a clear path to building intelligence that surpasses humans,” Eric Schmidt and Selina Xu write in a guest essay.
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Opinion | Silicon Valley Needs to Stop Obsessing Over Superhuman A.I.
Science has yet to find a clear path to building intelligence that surpasses that of humans.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
How The New York Times Became the Newspaper That Brought Pencils to a Fascist Takeover How the Democrats Became the Party That Brings Pencils to a Knife Fight www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...
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How the Democrats Became the Party That Brings Pencils to a Knife Fight
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/08/2025
this is good www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...
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How the Democrats Became the Party That Brings Pencils to a Knife Fight
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/08/2025
American voters whom Democrats are most desperate to reclaim said the party should not count on a backlash to President Trump to win them back. Here are takeaways from interviews with nearly 30 predominantly working-class voters who supported Biden in 2020 before defecting last year. nyti.ms/4otZlGF
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/08/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “At no other time in modern history has a country so thoroughly turned its back on its core national strengths,” Garrett Graff‬ writes in a guest essay. “The very elements that made the Manhattan Project such a success are today under assault.”
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Opinion | Trump Is Squandering the Greatest Gift of the Manhattan Project
The U.S. risks not just being left behind, but out of the game entirely.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/08/2025
Nearly eight in 10 companies have reported using generative A.I., but just as many have reported “no significant bottom-line impact,” according to recent research.
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Companies Are Pouring Billions Into A.I. It Has Yet to Pay Off.
Corporate spending on artificial intelligence is surging as executives bank on major efficiency gains. So far, they report little effect to the bottom line.
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Linda Huber @puellaludens.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Very excited to share this workshop I'm helping to host on August 19: "From Tech Lash To Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing" tech-organizing-reflections.github.io
a simple, dark green flier with a bold, white text header:
From Tech Lash To Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing

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Hybrid Workshop @ Aarhus - Tuesday August 19, 8:30–11:30 am EST / 2:30–5:30 pm CEST  
Computing is a field plagued with presentism, oriented towards the new in ways that limit our design and research practices - as well as our capacity to understand and collectively respond to emerging crises. To improve our sensemaking and strategizing about today's crises, this workshop explores what Tamara Kneese has deemed the last decade's shift from "techlash" to "tech fash". What have we learned from the era of misinformation and bias, of "surveillance capitalism" and tech worker organizing that can inform our struggle against the increasing power of a techno-fascist oligarchy? We will also look towards previous generations of computing professionals and activists, who likewise sought to address the harms of emerging automated systems and the complicity of computing within violent, imperialist projects. This workshop will create space for participants to explore these questions collectively, bridging past and present moments in an effort to devise strategies moving forward.

RSVP by Aug 12 https://tech-organizing-reflections.github.io/
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
A viral resignation letter from a veteran Alibaba employee offers a rare look at the company’s culture—and the issues now holding it back. Here’s my take on what the letter reveals, and what it means for China’s tech giants as they pivot into the AI era. www.valueadded.tech/p/the-innova...
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"Boss culture", 996, and KPI-driven management in China's tech sector
A viral Alibaba resignation letter gives an inside look at labor relations in China's tech sector.
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