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The shady #SiliconValley giant taking over #Britain | #CaroleCadwalladr interview

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YftdpU4ElUQ

#tech #theNetworkState 🙄

#PeterThielIsAnEvilFascist

#CurtisYarvinIsEvil #techbros #techfascists #technocracy #corporatetakeover #greed #billionairesSUCK #fascism

The UK Is Being Carved Up—And Nobody's Talking About It

While the mainstream media stays silent, Britain is being systematically divided into 86 deregulated corporate enclaves: 74 Special Economic Zones and 12 Freeports, now merged under the banner of "Industrial Strategy Zones," with 200 AI Growth Zones on the way.

#ZoneFever #Freeports #SEZs #CorporateTakeover #Brexit

https://substack.com/@europeanpowell/note/c-168571328?

"The prime minister, a consummate technocrat who knows how to cater to elite interests, is taking #Canadians for a ride, while servicing his natural constituency: bankers, tech broligarchs, oil barons, and arms manufacturers." https://breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys-rightward-rushing-agenda-getting-started-denial/

#CorporateTakeover #Canada #cdnpoli

Now that Honkemöller’s been scooped up by Americans, we say to those ladies that want to boycott the USA: drop the undies, not the values.
To those brave souls going commando: we see you, we salute you, we support you (literally, not physically).
Underwear is optional. Integrity isn’t.

#NoStringsAttached #GoCommando #CorporateTakeover #EuropeanIndependence

OK, I have a lot of beefs with organizations I also really like (or sometimes love). On FB there is a group called "The Professor Is Out" (#tpio?). They are a support page for people leaving academia, which is something I want to do, for many of the same reasons as everyone else.

However, TPIO mods can be a bit... well.

Any post suggesting we think carefully about how and where we jump from academic gets something between a smackdown ("you're not supporting people in toxic situations") to just being deleted.

I found this out when I saw a string of posts suggesting that humanities profs (who have fewer non-academic options than some other fields) jump to join #educorporate instructional technology companies or do #ux for FAANG corps and their associates. I made what I thought was a very careful post saying you gotta do what you gotta do to pay the bills, but the exodus from academia into some of the more problematic areas of industry transfers intellectual capital from public institutions to those actively (in many cases) trying to destroy them.

Like I said, it was carefully worded and not inflammatory like what I said above. It was couched. Couched, I say!

Got a serious chewing-out by the mods for failing to support vulnerable people, victim-blaming, and maybe some other stuff.

Come on, mods, I get it. But two things can both be true. If the only way I could pay rent/mortgage and my daughter's life expenses was doing UX for #facebook or A/B testing for #google, I'd do it in a second. At the same time I very much hope those aren't my only options to exit academia.

And then I found that one or more of the TPIO mods have launched a for-profit job coaching service for the academics the page serves.

I don't claim there are shenanigans going on, but I do have a belief that incentives matter, and misaligned #incentives can lead to misaligned outcomes.

I have not made a helpful post about how humanities faculty in toxic work situations might find more lucrative careers in job coaching for academic faculty who are in toxic work situations.

#academia #TheProfessorIsOut #professor #toxic #workplace #CorporateTakeover #HigherEd #motivation

The 10 Greatest Acquisitions of All Time

https://zurl.co/FBcd

#BusinessAcquisitions
#MergersAndAcquisitions
#CorporateStrategy
#BusinessGrowth
#SuccessfulDeals
#IndustryGiants
#MarketLeadership
#BusinessHistory
#CorporateTakeover
#InvestmentStrategy

R to @echo_pbreyer: 🇬🇧Brussels has a #corporatetakeover problem. That's why I support the whistleblower portal http://LobbyLeaks.eu .
Many complaints are coming in about trickery in the EU lobby register. With other MEPs, I am calling for a tougher approach:
https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/07/2024_02_07_Letter_LobbyLeaks42.pdf #Pirates

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/echo_pbreyer/status/1755939115302797383#m

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