Articles by robtherobber
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Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism (cbc.ca)

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China expands its spy networks across the European Union and beyond (elpais.com)

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Argentina's 'Madman': Inside the World of Javier Milei (aljazeera.com)

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Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank (computerweekly.com)

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An equal and habitable world is possible: academics set out vision for survival (theguardian.com)

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Oracle files foreign-worker requests amid layoff bloodbath (nypost.com)

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Tech CEOs Are Using AI as the Perfect Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs (gadgetreview.com)

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First undersea data center powered by offshore wind is online (newatlas.com)

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Worker Killed at SpaceX, a Monopoly Long Accused of Neglecting Safety (theworker.news)

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FCA's Palantir deal could expose UK financial data to Trump's US, critics fear (theguardian.com)

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Tom Interviews Theo de Raadt of the OpenBSD Project (2019) [video] (youtube.com)

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A Quiet Revolution: Drug Decriminalisation Across the Globe (2016) [pdf] (citywide.ie)

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Democracy support among authoritarian, populist, and Western Europeans (sagepub.com)

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The Digital Economy Is Destroying Our Lives and Our Planet (lithub.com)

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Europe's May heatwave sparks UN calls to shift to clean power (euronews.com)

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Don't let Big Tech hide ecological cost of AI, environment agency chief tells EU (politico.eu)

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NASA takes steps toward building Moon Base, including discussing a "perimeter" (arstechnica.com)

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Irish data watchdog pushed Norwegian citizen to settle privacy case with Meta (euobserver.com)

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300k Benefit from Rural Basic Income, K-Food Hits 'All-Time High' Last Year (asiae.co.kr)

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Digital dragnet: When images online destroy lives (heise.de)

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US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds (theguardian.com)

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Billionaire Brexit backers pledge to fight to keep Britain out of EU (telegraph.co.uk)

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Rights of at least one in seven UK workers illegally violated at their job (ucl.ac.uk)

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New fears over spread of Palantir's influence after Met police project extended (thenerve.news)

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Scented Entanglements (2023) (boasblogs.org)

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Trump official helped secure US visa for fugitive Polish minister (reuters.com)

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The Young Are Being Battered by AI as Hiring Shifts to Older Workers (gizmodo.com)

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EU plans to force companies to buy parts from non-Chinese suppliers (ft.com)

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The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly (theguardian.com)

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Hollywood Invented the Girlboss (jacobin.com)

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For three years I scoured the world for answers to Europe's big problems (theguardian.com)

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Brazil's Atlantic forest records lowest deforestation in 40 years (theguardian.com)

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Digital Euro: Data protectionists demand digital cash, not surveillance (heise.de)

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Tech oligarchs reshape humanity while billionaires of old seem quaint (theguardian.com)

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People Would Rather Have Nuclear Power Plants in Their Area Than AI Data Centers (forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs)

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The companies making billions from the Iran war (bbc.com)

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Cuckooland – Tom Burgis on the abuse of power and influence (2024) (ft.com)

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Europe could soon get new platform to book train tickets (nltimes.nl)

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If I ruled the world: Michael Sandel (2012) (prospectmagazine.co.uk)

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Houses are for living, not for speculation (wikipedia.org)

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European Money Pours into Palantir (elpais.com)

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Down with Meritocracy (2001) (theguardian.com)

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Truth Social lays bare narrow obsessions of an online president (npr.org)

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Japan sees largest protest in support of pacifist constitution (theguardian.com)

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Leaving the Party: the politics of Sterling Hayden (1988) (newcriterion.com)

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Salary isn't everything: Why flexibility to work remotely is the future of work (thehill.com)

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In Praise of Wild-Eyed Principles (2017) (vineyardgazette.com)

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Cornered Rats and Personal Betrayals (1997) (latimes.com)

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[flagged] Telegraph and Politico owner says journalists must support Israel or resign (middleeasteye.net)

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Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business (futurism.com)

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Australia's Richest Person Gifts Jet to Far-Right Party Head (bloomberg.com)

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Company says nuclear fusion could power the grid – and soon (cnn.com)

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I Mean, Why Shouldn't We All Smoke Cigarettes Again? (thecut.com)

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A New Study Shows How Ad-Based Technology Is Used for Surveillance (citizenlab.ca)

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Guerrilla gardens: what happens when communities take over council land (2014) (theguardian.com)

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War panic: if you prepare for war to achieve peace, you get war (2024) (lse.ac.uk)

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Vanishing Culture: A New Book on the Loss of Our Digital Memory (archive.org)

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Britain's Solar Revolution Is Here; We Should Be Shouting It from the Rooftops (bylinetimes.com)

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Age of Conformity (1954) (dissentmagazine.org)

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We translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings (theverge.com)

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Will I ever retire? It doesn't look like it (theguardian.com)

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Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want (theverge.com)

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Tech bros: it's time to challenge Silicon Valley's saviour complex (theguardian.com)

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How to Make Everyone in Your Vicinity Fear and Despise You (2018) (currentaffairs.org)

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What, Exactly, Is a Fair Wage? (prospect.org)

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Middle Eastern News Sites Are U.S. Government Propaganda Ops (theintercept.com)

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French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data (bleepingcomputer.com)

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98% of all recent environmental claims can be categorized as "greenwashing" (eurekalert.org)

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The arrogant superbanker whose hubris brought Britain to its knees (inews.co.uk)

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Palantir manifesto reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain (engadget.com)

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What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos's Private Retreat (theatlantic.com)

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Japan Is Building a War Machine in the East China Sea (jacobin.com)

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Snake Bros Keep Getting Bitten by Their Lethal Pets. Only Zoos Can Save Them (wired.com)

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From Vivaldi to Van Halen, classical and heavy metal are a natural pairing (theguardian.com)

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How the cost of a mortgage has changed in the UK – from the 60s until now (2025) (hotminute.co.uk)

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U.S. businesses bully Brussels into weakening supply chain rules (ftm.eu)

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The American Experiment Has Been Infected by Oligarchs (motherjones.com)

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EU Launches Age Verification App (reclaimthenet.org)

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Solar and wind energy are shielding world from worst impacts of Iran war (independent.co.uk)

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Luigi-Inspired Arsonist Threatened "Our Way of Life," Feds Say (kenklippenstein.com)

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Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data (eff.org)

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Projected warming will exceed the long-term thermal limits of rice cultivation (nature.com)

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Germany's New Baby-Nazis (crossbordertalks.eu)

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The warning Big Alcohol wants to keep off your bottles of beer (2025) (investigativedesk.com)

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EU-backed manufacturing body goes bust – and no one will say why (ftm.eu)

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PFAS diminishes mouse embryo mitochondria function across 3 generations (sciencedirect.com)

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Oracle gave its new CFO $26M in stock after firing up to 30k workers (moneywise.com)

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Untaxed hidden wealth surpasses wealth of the poorest half of humanity (oxfam.org)

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Orban's Chances of Winning Hungary Election Drop After JD Vance Rally (newsweek.com)

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Arms industry given direct influence over university courses in the UK (declassifieduk.org)

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[flagged] America Has Lost the Arab World (foreignaffairs.com)

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Millions Across Europe Urged to Work from Home (newsweek.com)

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Patrick Keiller Has Been Filming London's Slow Collapse Since the 1990s (2013) (vice.com)

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Impossible Choices (2019) (aeon.co)

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Nearly three-quarters of England's woods inaccessible to public, study finds (theguardian.com)

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Debating the Sharing Economy (2014) (greattransition.org)

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The case for a universal basic income in the era of A.I (americamagazine.org)

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Nietzsche vs. the Wellness Industry (iai.tv)

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Linux security layer extremely vulnerable: 12.6 million systems affected (techzine.eu)

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The U.S. attacked Iran to show its power but the war is lost (fortune.com)