“The demand would be a 10- or 12-hour working week, a guaranteed social wage, universally guaranteed housing, education, healthcare and so on,” he says. “There may be some work that will still need to be done by humans, like quality control, but it would be minimal.”
(There are some criticisms to be made of this piece for ignoring care work and reproductive labour, which is a problem with orthodox Marxist thought generally)
Guardian
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This is the sort of situation where facile defences of gentrification fall short. It's not simply a case of poor people responding to market forces and selling up. It's a case of poor people receiving eviction notices en masse to accommodate development. City Press
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Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee won a Nobel Peace Prize partly for organising a sex strike. Why is she not a household name?
"Then we launched the sex strike. In 2002, Liberia's Christian and Muslim women banded together to refuse sex with their husbands until the violence and civil strife ended." Telegraph
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Bummer :(
"According to the Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), global violence — as defined by a range of measures from conflict deaths, to displaced persons, to homicide rates — has been rising since 2007. This news is in many ways surprising because up to 2007, the data suggested the world was becoming a much safer place." Reuters
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"A sewage treatment facility in Tokyo that has already started extracting gold from sludge has reported a yield rivalling those found in ore at some leading gold mines." Guardian
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A really thorough demolition of the idea that encouraging weight loss is a useful medical intervention. Of people who diet, only around 3% manage to lose weight and keep it off, and that requires huge, enduring lifestyle changes. And there's not even any good evidence that people who successfully lose weight have better health outcomes than people who stay fat. Slate
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On US gun culture:
"You have guns because you like guns! That's why you go to gun conventions; that's why you read gun magazines! None of you give a shit about home security. None of you go to home security conventions. None of you read Padlock Monthly. None of you have a Facebook picture of you behind a secure door." Vox
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"In effect, the police officer was merely pointing out where these communities live or work. And, yes, different ethnic groups will have different crimes – often due to their national history or culture – but that in no way means one ethnicity is inherently more criminal than another.
The police officer could equally have pointed to the City, and said that here white people commit banking fraud; or to Wapping, where they hack phones; or to Westminster, where they plot illegal wars." Guardian
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The creation of patriarchal, polygynous societies in the wake of the agricultural revolution is visible in our genetic inheritance. PS Mag
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"The photo is exploitive, in the most deliberate sense—the site, Truthdig, is using the women in the photo as a way to provoke titillation and/or moral outrage and/or (more likely) both. The fact that the women are ... available is itself a selling point for the audience. Hedges condemns sex work, but he also participates in it. The main difference between Truthdig and the owner of that brothel is that the brothel owner presumably provided the women in the picture with a cut. Truthdig shows its higher morals by keeping all the money for itself." Ravishly
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"“The first Gilded Age, despite its glaring inequities, was accompanied by a gradual rise in the standard of living; the second by a gradual erosion,” he writes. In the first Gilded Age, everyone from reporters to politicians apparently felt comfortable painting plutocrats as villains; in the second, this is, somehow, forbidden." New Yorker
This reminds me of this comment: "With results like these, what will the epitaph for neoliberalism look like? I think historians will conclude it was a form of capitalism that systematically prioritized political imperatives over economic ones. Given a choice between a course of action that would make capitalism seem the only possible economic system, and one that would transform capitalism into a viable, long-term economic system, neoliberalism chooses the former every time." Baffler
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Friends, comrades: the War on "Drugs" Washington Post
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"Some Germans today insist that a debt is a debt, and that Greece must repay in full. They should know better from their own history, starting with Keynes’s unsuccessful plea to lower Germany’s reparations burden. They should recall the relief that Germany was granted through the Marshall plan, and the 1953 London agreement on German debts. Did Germany “deserve” the relief in 1953? That was not the right question. Germany’s new democracy needed the relief, and Germany needed a fresh start." Guardian
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Post-wine headaches are not caused by sulfites, just regular old alcohol in excess Wall Street Journal
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"All seemed to go pretty well; she was nodding all the time while saying, “yes, yes, you are so right…” But then I said something like: “well Ms Johnson, we….” She interrupted: ” Sorry, my name is Petersen, not Johnson.” I then experienced a terrible sinking feeling, because I then saw before me the horoscope of a Ms Johnson, but the person before me was surely not this Ms Johnson! Apparently I had taken the wrong chart from my file cabinet!" Link
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Interesting. It now appears that a key risk factor for myopia is lack of exposure to bright light (such as one might encounter outdoors on a sunny day). The traditional explanation, that myopia is caused by excessive close work, is the result of a spurious correlation - close work just often happens indoors. Nature
(There are some criticisms to be made of this piece for ignoring care work and reproductive labour, which is a problem with orthodox Marxist thought generally)
>>><<<
This is the sort of situation where facile defences of gentrification fall short. It's not simply a case of poor people responding to market forces and selling up. It's a case of poor people receiving eviction notices en masse to accommodate development. City Press
>>><<<
Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee won a Nobel Peace Prize partly for organising a sex strike. Why is she not a household name?
"Then we launched the sex strike. In 2002, Liberia's Christian and Muslim women banded together to refuse sex with their husbands until the violence and civil strife ended." Telegraph
>>><<<
Bummer :(
"According to the Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), global violence — as defined by a range of measures from conflict deaths, to displaced persons, to homicide rates — has been rising since 2007. This news is in many ways surprising because up to 2007, the data suggested the world was becoming a much safer place." Reuters
>>><<<
"A sewage treatment facility in Tokyo that has already started extracting gold from sludge has reported a yield rivalling those found in ore at some leading gold mines." Guardian
>>><<<
A really thorough demolition of the idea that encouraging weight loss is a useful medical intervention. Of people who diet, only around 3% manage to lose weight and keep it off, and that requires huge, enduring lifestyle changes. And there's not even any good evidence that people who successfully lose weight have better health outcomes than people who stay fat. Slate
>>><<<
On US gun culture:
"You have guns because you like guns! That's why you go to gun conventions; that's why you read gun magazines! None of you give a shit about home security. None of you go to home security conventions. None of you read Padlock Monthly. None of you have a Facebook picture of you behind a secure door." Vox
>>><<<
"In effect, the police officer was merely pointing out where these communities live or work. And, yes, different ethnic groups will have different crimes – often due to their national history or culture – but that in no way means one ethnicity is inherently more criminal than another.
The police officer could equally have pointed to the City, and said that here white people commit banking fraud; or to Wapping, where they hack phones; or to Westminster, where they plot illegal wars." Guardian
>>><<<
The creation of patriarchal, polygynous societies in the wake of the agricultural revolution is visible in our genetic inheritance. PS Mag
>>><<<
"The photo is exploitive, in the most deliberate sense—the site, Truthdig, is using the women in the photo as a way to provoke titillation and/or moral outrage and/or (more likely) both. The fact that the women are ... available is itself a selling point for the audience. Hedges condemns sex work, but he also participates in it. The main difference between Truthdig and the owner of that brothel is that the brothel owner presumably provided the women in the picture with a cut. Truthdig shows its higher morals by keeping all the money for itself." Ravishly
>>><<<
"“The first Gilded Age, despite its glaring inequities, was accompanied by a gradual rise in the standard of living; the second by a gradual erosion,” he writes. In the first Gilded Age, everyone from reporters to politicians apparently felt comfortable painting plutocrats as villains; in the second, this is, somehow, forbidden." New Yorker
This reminds me of this comment: "With results like these, what will the epitaph for neoliberalism look like? I think historians will conclude it was a form of capitalism that systematically prioritized political imperatives over economic ones. Given a choice between a course of action that would make capitalism seem the only possible economic system, and one that would transform capitalism into a viable, long-term economic system, neoliberalism chooses the former every time." Baffler
>>><<<
Friends, comrades: the War on "Drugs" Washington Post
>>><<<
"Some Germans today insist that a debt is a debt, and that Greece must repay in full. They should know better from their own history, starting with Keynes’s unsuccessful plea to lower Germany’s reparations burden. They should recall the relief that Germany was granted through the Marshall plan, and the 1953 London agreement on German debts. Did Germany “deserve” the relief in 1953? That was not the right question. Germany’s new democracy needed the relief, and Germany needed a fresh start." Guardian
>>><<<
Post-wine headaches are not caused by sulfites, just regular old alcohol in excess Wall Street Journal
>>><<<
"All seemed to go pretty well; she was nodding all the time while saying, “yes, yes, you are so right…” But then I said something like: “well Ms Johnson, we….” She interrupted: ” Sorry, my name is Petersen, not Johnson.” I then experienced a terrible sinking feeling, because I then saw before me the horoscope of a Ms Johnson, but the person before me was surely not this Ms Johnson! Apparently I had taken the wrong chart from my file cabinet!" Link
>>><<<
Interesting. It now appears that a key risk factor for myopia is lack of exposure to bright light (such as one might encounter outdoors on a sunny day). The traditional explanation, that myopia is caused by excessive close work, is the result of a spurious correlation - close work just often happens indoors. Nature
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