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Ryszard Szarfenberg

@rszarfenberg.bsky.social
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Uniwersytet Warszawski, EAPN Polska, ATD Czwarty Świat

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A court in Hangzhou just awarded compensation after a worker was fired and replaced with AI. That's the point: if AI displaces you, compensation shouldn't depend on whether you can afford a legal fight. UBI is the universal floor.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 12/01/2026
Iran’s authorities are committing large-scale killing of protesters while having shut down the internet, cutting off people in Iran from the rest of the world. Iranian authorities should immediately end the bloodshed and release everyone arrested for exercising their human rights.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 12/01/2026
Amid Iran's internet blackout, there are concerning reports of large scale killings by security forces. Hear from HRW's Executive Director Philippe Bolopion on the emergency situation in Iran:
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 31/12/2025
IMO one of the best research studies of the year. TLDR: A new study shows that rideshare has improved employment outcomes, social connections, and well being of people with disabilities—with the highest benefits being for those with vision/hearing or mobility disabilities. WOW. #disabilitysky #phd
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Gemini, ChatGPT & Claude: “What is the single best investment equivalent in spending $1000 that I could make if I time traveled back to any destination circa 1300.” Gemini: Magna Carta stored at Durham Cathedral ChatGPT: A share in Stora Kopparberg Claude: A waqf at Al-Azhar
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 02/01/2026
If you support universal basic income, please start walking the walk this year by donating monthly to @itsafoundation.bsky.social in support of making UBI happen, because it's not going to just happen without resources.
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It's Time to Walk the Walk for Universal Basic Income (UBI)
UBI means some pay more tax but most net ahead. Walk the walk now: align monthly giving with your likely net tax and help build the income floor.
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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 29/12/2025
Top CEPR Discussion Paper of 2025 - DP19943 Do Temporary Cash Transfers Stimulate the #Macroeconomy? Evidence from Four Case Studies Valerie Ramey ow.ly/pRhM50XLr81 #CEPR_MG #EconSky #2025inReview
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Ryszard Szarfenberg @rszarfenberg.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Cezary Miżejewski nie żyje.
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Ryszard Szarfenberg @rszarfenberg.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Żegnaj Czarku.😢
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Lars E.F. Johannessen @larsjohannessen.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Christmas reading: The junkification of research - Rhodes & Linnenluecke (Organization, 2025) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #academicsky Pictured: the downward spiral of junkification ⬇️
Pictured is the authors' figure, titled, "The downward spiral of junkification." This starts with "commodification of research," which leads to "pay-to-publish proliferation," which leads to "decline in quality and integrity," which leads to "increase in low-quality publications" and "innovation decline", the end result of which is "junkification."
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Janet Gornick @janetgornick.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Steven Greenhouse on AI & work. He cites Acemoglu: there are "essentially two routes for developing AI: an anti-worker route and a pro-worker route." Includes link to video of related panel, co-hosted by @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social and @stone-lis.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Most people aren’t fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs | Steven Greenhouse
Artificial intelligence could make income inequality even worse and create a new underclass. Governments and society must take action
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
New analysis from Americans for Tax Fairness: US Billionaires added $5.1 trillion to their fortunes since 2017. To put that in perspective, if that money went to the American people instead, every household would get $37,800.
“Americans for Tax Fairness” shows the explosive growth in billionaire wealth in the United States from December 30, 2017, to October 27, 2025. It reports that the number of billionaires increased from 551 to 916, and their total wealth grew from $2.9 trillion to $8.0 trillion—an increase of $5.1 trillion or 176%. The table lists the top 20 billionaires, including Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and others, with each person’s net worth in 2017, their net worth in 2025, and the dollar and percentage growth over the period. Elon Musk’s wealth grew the most in dollar terms (from $20 billion to $490 billion, a 2,305% increase). At the bottom, a highlighted row shows the top 20 billionaires gained $2.45 trillion (a 286.6% increase), while all other billionaires combined gained $2.7 trillion (a 133.2% increase).
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PATHS2INCLUDE @paths2include.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
📣New #PATHS2INCLUDE working paper, using a cross-nationally harmonized factorial survey experiment designed to study the organizational context of ethnic discrimination. Read about the experiment and its outcomes 👇 paths2include.eu/publications...
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Tomasz Markiewka @markiewkatomasz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
"W sumie nisko opłacani pracownicy doznają pięciokrotnie więcej urazów związanych z upałem niż ich najlepiej wynagradzani współpracownicy". markiewka.substack.com/p/kryzys-kli...
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Kryzys klimatyczny uderza w najsłabszych
Zgadnijcie, jakie grupy społeczne są najbardziej poszkodowane kolejnymi falami upałów. Podpowiem: te, o które niby upominają się przeciwnicy transformacji energetycznej.
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🔎 Stowarzyszenie Demagog @demagog.org.pl · 11/08/2025
🗣️ Wypowiedź Sławomira Mentzena z @konfederacja.bsky.social ❌ #fałsz. 💡Wśród projektów dofinansowanych z KPO nie ma wniosku o rozszerzenie działalności o udzielanie chwilówek.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
In many ways its the knock-on benefits of UBI that make the policy so important.
"Being poor is actually a 
full-time job and being broke 
is like a full-time job with 
the amount of paperwork
and the time going from 
office to office proving 
what you have done. 
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With Universal Basic 
Income all that would be 
eliminated with the time 
liberated to do something 
socially productive."

– David Graeber
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Ryszard Szarfenberg @rszarfenberg.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Ciężki jest los obrońców demokracji.
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This is an extremely informative resource. Visualizes range of estimates of minimum wage estimates across a large number of studies. Also really illustrates which studies are outliers.
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Ryszard Szarfenberg @rszarfenberg.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Emocjonalizować czy deemocjonalizować wypowiedź o zamachu stanu?
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Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
90% of unaccompanied minors applying for asylum in the EU are boys.
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Ryszard Szarfenberg @rszarfenberg.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Wyniki przeliczenia głosów w ponad 250 komisjach. Nie ma dowodów na masowe fałszerstwa.
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Ryszard Szarfenberg @rszarfenberg.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Prywatyzacja i urynkowienie - mechanizmy w edukacji, ochronie zdrowia i mieszkalnictwie
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 17/04/2025
Meme of Yoda from The Empire Strikes Back having just lifted Luke's X-wing from the swamp:

WHEN THE RESULTS OF ANOTHER BASIC INCOME PILOT COME OUT

AND EMPLOYMENT INCREASED AGAIN
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Ryszard Szarfenberg @rszarfenberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Apokalipsa znaczenia i drogi wyjścia
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Ryszard Szarfenberg @rszarfenberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Wdrażanie AI w polskiej administracji publicznej
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Freek Spinnewijn @freekspinnewijn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Incredible! The EU Commission falsely claims the draft Return Regulation (2025) is based on distinct pieces of research. See reaction of research insitutes involved. Evidence-base policies don't allow cherry-picking...
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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
'The road to 80% collective bargaining coverage: the need for ambitious national action plans under the Minimum Wage Directive' 📑 ETUI policy brief by Torsten Müller and @thorsten-schulten.bsky.social 🔗 etui.org/Z6f
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Ryszard Szarfenberg @rszarfenberg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"Rada Europy (RE) - międzynarodowa organizacja stojąca na straży praw człowieka i praworządności - orzekła w środę, że Belgia naruszyła prawo do mieszkania. W szczególności skrytykowała politykę mieszkaniową Flandrii."
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Freek Spinnewijn @freekspinnewijn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1492...
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Flanders' failing housing policy condemned by Council of Europe
"Housing is a fundamental human right, yet thousands of people in the Flemish Region continue to face unaffordable rents, homelessness and discrimination."
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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
📕 Launch of the latest edition of our annual joint publication with the European Social Observatory, 'Social policy in the EU: state of play' 🗣️ A full-day conference that brings together leading experts, policymakers, and advocates to unpack the evolving landscape of #SocialEurope On the agenda 👇
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Freek Spinnewijn @freekspinnewijn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Chair of EU Social Protection Committee Rute Guerra calls on MS + EU Commission to step up efforts to eradicate #homelessness at todays EPSCO Council meeting. Must be a first. The fight against homelessness is clearly gaining momentum at EU level. video.consilium.europa.eu/event/en/27844
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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
🧵 How do criminal organizations expand to strong states? My paper in @thejop.bsky.social explains how mafias successfully moved to Northern Italy—by striking deals with local actors and exploiting migrant labor. Thread: ⬇️
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Ryszard Szarfenberg @rszarfenberg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Why prioritarians lose out to egalitarians
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Freek Spinnewijn @freekspinnewijn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Since when do we believe that housing investment needs are a true reflection of the need for affordable housing?!
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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · 07/03/2025
🟣On the eve of the #IWD2025, there is still a long way to go to achieve economic equality between ♀️and ♂️. It's more important than ever to continue investing and supporting research on #gender and #inequality #StandUpForScience2025 ✊ More insights: wir2022.wid.world/chapter-5/
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Ryszard Szarfenberg @rszarfenberg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Techniki oszustw inwestycyjnych
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Ryszard Szarfenberg @rszarfenberg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
AI już zaraz www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...
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Tomasz Markiewka @markiewkatomasz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
To jest ciekawy wykres, bo sugeruje, że skrajna prawica rosła w siłę nie tyle przez słabość lewicy, lecz przez słabość tradycyjnych partii konserwatywnych. Mało się o tym mówi. Np. w Polsce wyniki Konfederacji tłumaczy się błędami Lewicy, ale już nie Hołowni.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
As another Trump-induced market crisis unfolds from tariffs, it's time we ask "What's the Matter with Billionaires?" I've run the numbers. Billionaires do better under Dems. So why do billionaires keep supporting GOP policies against their economic interests? See my latest piece on why. (TLDR 🧵⬇️)
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What's the Matter with Billionaires?
How America's wealthiest sabotage their own prosperity (and ours) to avoid paying taxes
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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
With new talk of plutocracy, we should be clear about exactly what Americans think about the rich, economic inequality, and egalitarian policies, says @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Stone Center Associate Director Leslie McCall in an interview with @behscientist.bsky.social. bit.ly/4i2u7ml
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Most Americans Dislike Income Inequality. But They Disagree About Who Should Fix It. - by Heather Graci - Behavioral Scientist
Americans are more critical of the wealthy and less tolerant of income inequality than many believe. So why has inequality persisted and worsened?
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Freek Spinnewijn @freekspinnewijn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Finally! Data on #homelessness from the 2021 population census in France are available. Almost 170.000 sheltered and unsheltered homeless + people living in places not intented for permanent habitation such as garages, huts or caravans. Huge underestimate... @manueldomergue.bsky.social
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Say you’ve got very good causal IDENTIFICATION. Can you say you have causality, can make a causal general claim, and can say what “THE causal effect” is? NO We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
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The necessity of construct and external validity for deductive causal inference
The Credibility Revolution advances internally valid research designs intended to identify causal effects from quantitative data. The ensuing emphasis on internal validity, however, has enabled a negl...
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Ryszard Szarfenberg @rszarfenberg.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Jeden z wątków
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Ryszard Szarfenberg @rszarfenberg.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Rozmowa Trump-Putin w ujęciu wielowymiarowym (za OSW)
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Ryszard Szarfenberg @rszarfenberg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Tymczasowość deregulacji faktycznych
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Ryszard Szarfenberg @rszarfenberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Przemówienia dzisiejsze DT et al.: topos liczb i topos ludu
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Ryszard Szarfenberg @rszarfenberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
"polityka publiczna prawie zawsze zależy od trudnych kompromisów, które mogą być wspierane, ale nie rozstrzygane przez naukę" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Post-Truth and the Rhetoric of “Following the Science”
Populists are often cast as deniers of rationality, creators of a climate of “post-truth,” and valuing tribe over truth and the rigors of science. Their critics claim the authority of rationality a...
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Ben Lyons @benlyons.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Excited to read Anti-scientific Americans by @mattmotta.bsky.social !
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