https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/15/new-hidden-camera-video-reinforces-trumps-project-2025-problem/

Vought: given an assignment by Trump since he left office…Trump has “been at our organization, he’s raised money for our organization, he’s blessed it.”…and is “very supportive of what we do.”

“80% of my time is working on the plans of what’s necessary to take control of these #bureaucracies.…we are working doggedly on that, whether it’s destroying their agencies’ notion of independence…whether that is thinking through how the deportation would work.”

#project2025

Robotic #algorithms and reductionist #metrics and #dashboards are as much of a problem in corporate management as they are in #bureaucracies.

They use measurements to optimize and rearrange the world around them - but it turns out that maintaining healthy systems relies heavily on things unmeasured and unoptimized.

https://themarkup.org/2023/12/07/how-certain-algorithms-to-improve-the-human-condition-have-failed

"On the Frontline of Global #Inequalities: A #Decolonial Approach to the Study of #StreetLevel #Bureaucracies"

is this month's #OpenAccess publication in the spotlight.

Read our interview with author Flávio Eiró on what changes he would advocate for in global #KnowledgeProduction to address inequality.
Does the open science movement sufficiently consider perspectives of the Global South?

https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/open-access-publication-in-the-spotlight-september-on-the-frontline-of-global-inequalities-a-d

#OpenScience #decolonization #GlobalSouth #sociology #anthropology

If you’re #unemployed, it’s not because there isn’t any #work.

Just look #around: A #housing shortage, #crime, #pollution; we need better #schools and #parks. Whatever #our #needs, they all require work. And as long as we have #unsatisfied needs, there’s work to be done.

So #ask #yourself, what kind of #world has work but no jobs? It’s a world where work is not related to satisfying our needs, a world where work is only related to satisfying the #profit needs of #business.

This #country was not built by the huge #corporations or #government #bureaucracies. It was built by #people who work. And, it is #working people who should #control the work to be done. Yet, as long as #employment is tied to #somebody else’s #profits, the work won’t get done.