Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says Elon Musk is “one of the only people in the world” who could build Houston’s much-needed tunnel system for flood water mitigation.

But his company, Boring, has never completed a major public project in Texas.
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-wesley-hunt-houston-tunnels-boring-co?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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My niece (21) tells me she's been chatting with AI every day, discussing her dreams. She says she's been using Grok, which she describes as "iPhone's AI." At some point Grok was installed as part of an update, she assumed it was Apple's own AI. She knew nothing about what Grok is, knew nothing about MechaHitler. How many people found Grok on their phones and just assumed, like she did? How many people have no idea they're being fed Elon Musk's thoughts like truth?

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My niece (21) tells me she's been chatting with AI every day, discussing her dreams. She says she's been using Grok, which she describes as "iPhone's AI." At some point Grok was installed as part of an update, she assumed it was Apple's own AI. She knew nothing about what Grok is, knew nothing about MechaHitler. How many people found Grok on their phones and just assumed, like she did? How many people have no idea they're being fed Elon Musk's thoughts like truth?

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These arguments have been established by a long tradition of scholarship -- WEB du Bois, CLR James, Cedric Robinson, Angela Davis, Walter Rodney, Claudia Jones, Utsa Patnaik, Ali Kadri, Immanuel Wallerstein, Samir Amin & more -- and they remain as relevant today as ever.

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The struggle against #racism must be #anticapitalist, & the struggle against #capitalism must be #antiracist.

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Overcoming #capitalism - in other words, transitioning to a #democratic #socialist #economy - is ultimately necessary to end structural #racism & #imperialist #violence.

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And of course these very same discourses were deployed within the core itself, to justify paying lower #wages to radicalized people, & to deny them equal access to #resources.

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... to provide the ideological scaffolding necessary to justify #apocalyptic levels of #exploitation & bloodshed in the periphery.

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This was an extraordinarily #violent process, involving #colonization, #dispossession, mass #enslavement, & #genocide.

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This is where #imperialism comes in. As Utsa Patnaik puts it, #capitalism requires “an #imperial arrangement” to maintain access to cheap #labor & cheap #nature, and thereby to stabilize accumulation.

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This is where #imperialism comes in. As Utsa Patnaik puts it, #capitalism requires “an #imperial arrangement” to maintain access to cheap #labor & cheap #nature, and thereby to stabilize accumulation.

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This cannot be sustained for long within a bounded #economy. If you intensify the #exploitation of your domestic #workingclass & #resource base in this way, sooner or later you will face a #revolution.

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And for #capital, the purpose of #production is not to meet #human needs, or to achieve #social progress, but to maximize & accumulate #profit. That is the overriding objective.

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Whistleblower: DOGE hat Daten zu allen Menschen in den USA in die Cloud kopiert

In der US-Sozialkasse haben Angestellte von DOGE laut einer Whistleblower-Beschwerde eine hochsensible Datenbank in die Cloud kopiert. Das Risiko sei enorm.

https://www.heise.de/news/Whistleblower-DOGE-hat-Daten-zu-allen-Menschen-in-den-USA-in-die-Cloud-kopiert-10622689.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

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This bears repeating: despite the massive #productivity of the world #economy, nearly one-third of the #human population does not have secure access to #food.

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This bears repeating: despite the massive #productivity of the world #economy, nearly one-third of the #human population does not have secure access to #food.

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Given that secure access to #food is central to the BNPL method, this suggests that post-2011 #poverty trends have probably not improved much.

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Third, while we don't yet have robust BNPL data after 2011, we know that #food insecurity has increased steadily in more recent years, going from 21% in 2014 to 30% in 2022.

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Second, #poverty alleviation has not been steady. In the 1990's the poverty rate increased dramatically, during the period when #neoliberal structural adjustment programmes were imposed on many developing countries.

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First, progress is slower than we thought. Between 1980 & 2011, global extreme #poverty declined by only six percentage points, from 23% to 17%. During the same period, the number of people in extreme poverty actually increased, from 1.01 billion to 1.20 billion.

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