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BellingenNSWEpstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts
"The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US justice department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption and extreme misogyny. The crimes, they said, showed a commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls."
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/epstein-files-crimes-against-humanity-un-experts
#misogyny #crime #dehumanisation #commodification #racism #supremacy #corruption #UltraRich #RacketTheory
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦“At its worst, #ArtificialIntelligence could become an accomplice to the #corporation in the marginalization and #commodification of #humanity.” - #TimWu, The Age of #Extraction: How #Tech #Platforms Conquered our #Economy and Threaten Our Future #Prosperit#AI
Strypey"The commodification of knowledge and the commercialisation of the higher education sector hinder attempts to reduce inequity. The higher education system needs to transform to be more open and responsive to societal needs, offering the opportunity to increase knowledge equity."
Dr #AdrianGonzalez, Professor Emeritus #RichardHeller, 2026
https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/25/calling-for-a-bold-new-vision-for-higher-education/
WEEKEND READING: Calling for a bold new vision for higher education - HEPI
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Miguel Afonso Caetano"Good books offer new arguments. Excellent books pose new questions. Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts is an excellent book. It poses one extraordinary, novel question — If capitalism impels the commodification of everything, why has it not commodified so many parts of nature? — that yields other extraordinary questions.
In answering them, Battistoni makes so many interesting moves that you might miss a few. I want to mention only two, each a book in itself.
In one move, Battistoni analyzes a body of mainstream economics that arises in the twentieth century under the rubric of externalities, social costs, and cost disease. After pointing out that each of those issues has a common element — they all arise in the spheres of nature or the body — Battistoni does something that echoes what Marx did with Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Instead of ignoring or rejecting this literature, as many of Marx’s comrades did the economics of their day, Battistoni mines it for truths that economists, ethicists, and environmentalists avoid.
To the economists, Battistoni points out that their theory of externalities follows from what Arthur Cecil Pigou called a “violent paradox”: a society that uses “the measuring rod of money” as its instrument of valuation will systematically, not contingently, produce market failures, particularly in the natural world, that cannot be resolved through the market.
To ethicists and environmentalists, who think it is immoral to put a price on toxic waste or to trade in pollution rights, Battistoni argues that waste and pollution are parts of production and exchange. They’re costs, like wages or rent. The question is how to price those costs and who should pay them. If the price is too high, maybe that’s telling us something we need to change about how we organize the economy."
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/marx-ricardo-commodification-nature-capitalism/
#Capitalism #Nature #Commodification #SocialReproduction #PoliticalEconomy
Fri-Henrik"Winner takes all!
How the 'Epstein Class' Fails to the Top | The Chris Hedges Report (w/ Anand Giridharadas)"
#Capitalism #Commodification #powerelites #chrishedges #anandgiridharadas
How the 'Epstein Class' Fails to the Top | The Chris Hedges Report (w/ Anand Giridharadas)
@envplaneOnlineFirst - "An uncooperative transition: Material contradictions in Chile's renewable energy boom" by Caroline White-Knockleby, Elena Louder, and Manuel Prieto:
#energytransition #commodification #socioecologicalfix #Chile #neoliberalnatures
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251383795
davey#frontEndend #Commodification #privacy Today I made an appointment with an orthodontist. I filled out heir three-page online history form. Just above the signature line, I read, "Whether or not we treat you, we may use your personal information for research of publicity."
Whoof! I canceled, mentioning that I'm happy to have my data used for health research,. aggregated or no, but I don't give blanket permission upfront; and that I never authorize a business to use my personal data for publicity. (Okay, that leaves out my publishers; TMI.)
I was surprised to get a phone call saying they certainly would not use my personal info in either way. (Perhaps the hpersonal building their form didn't think anyone would want to opt out.) I asked for a written message, they sent one, I restored the appointment, and (Feh) filled out their form once again, referencing the email codicil in the signature box.
Whoof! I canceled, mentioning that I'm happy to have my data used for health research,. aggregated or no, but I don't give blanket permission upfront; and that I never authorize a business to use my personal data for publicity. (Okay, that leaves out my publishers; TMI.)
I was surprised to get a phone call saying they certainly would not use my personal info in either way. (Perhaps the hpersonal building their form didn't think anyone would want to opt out.) I asked for a written message, they sent one, I restored the appointment, and (Feh) filled out their form once again, referencing the email codicil in the signature box.
mayVacation stream of consciousness: material gain and birds of prey
