Articles by robtherobber
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Tesla defeats Sweden's IF Metall union after 1,021-day strike (electrek.co)

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Fish are facing a summer of death in UK's poisoned rivers (inews.co.uk)

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Contiguous US breaks its record for hottest month ever, NOAA says (apnews.com)

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Why space is a terrible place to cool a data center (thenewstack.io)

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No Immunity for Big Oil (noimmunityforbigoil.org)

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The Power of the Bittersweet: Susan Cain on Longing (2022) (themarginalian.org)

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Mamdani Backs Proposal to End Amazon's Delivery Model in NYC (commondreams.org)

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Distrosea – Test drive Linux distros online (distrosea.com)

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5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe (severe-weather.eu)

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Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta (abc.net.au)

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Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland (ox.ac.uk)

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Large-scale study finds no link between crime and unauthorized immigration (phys.org)

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Projected economic gains and lives saved under universal healthcare in the US (medrxiv.org)

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Why Americans fear getting old (inews.co.uk)

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Oil giants face backlash as Iran conflict fuels multi-billion-pound profits (leftfootforward.org)

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New rail link reconnects Finland and Sweden (yle.fi)

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A farewell to (American) arms: Europe is pushing the U.S. out (theins.press)

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Salem Brought a Guillotine to Oppose New Data Center (gadgetreview.com)

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The Allister Heath Headline Generator (stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app)

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UK newspaper opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time (carbonbrief.org)

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Social Darwinists to tech bros: tracing the long fight against equality in US (theguardian.com)

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Companies once tied to Assad kept winning UN contracts under Syria's new rulers (icij.org)

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Tech giant Palantir accused of 'agressive tax avoidance' at Europe's expense (ftm.eu)

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Sam Altman says AI won't shorten the workweek because humans enjoy being busy (techspot.com)

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Europe's Ultra-Rich Could Fund a Substantial Part of the EU's Budget (socialeurope.eu)

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Why does everything feel so joyless? The age of decadence without pleasure (theguardian.com)

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Segregation by Design – An atlas of spatial injustice (segregationbydesign.com)

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The Uses of 'Treason' (cjr.org)

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Musk Shamed After Attacking NYC Mayor over $38B Government Handouts (ibtimes.co.uk)

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Windows: Global Device ID leads to legally relevant identification (heise.de)

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$5B CEO says unemployed Gen Z should be out 3 days a week building their network (fortune.com)

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EU border agency unlawfully transferred data on migrants/activists to Europol (elpais.com)

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US is building 3000 data centers. The economics aren't as great as they seem (qz.com)

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[flagged] Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers (theintercept.com)

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The Age of Founder Control (tribunemag.co.uk)

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Landmark Science Report Confirms Big Oil's Fingerprints on Extreme Weather (commondreams.org)

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Narcissistic leaders more likely to oppose remote work, new research suggests (cbc.ca)

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Swedbank fined $50M by New York authorities over Panama Papers revelations (icij.org)

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EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application (europa.eu)

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America Broke Its Own Military (tribunemag.co.uk)

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US imposes new sanctions on Cuba tourism ministry, state-owned companies (aljazeera.com)

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Files on Illegal Spying Show CIA Skeletons from Cold War (2007) (nytimes.com)

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Trent Reznor and Saul Williams Discuss Their New Collaboration, Mourn OiNK (2007) (vulture.com)

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The Looting of Science Fiction (aeon.co)

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After Xbox layoffs, idSoftware says worker-owned studios "the only path forward" (gamesradar.com)

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Most Americans now say the public should own half of the big AI companies (thenextweb.com)

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The Chickens and the Bulls (2012) (slate.com)

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Microsoft Confirms Windows GDID Device Identifier That Cannot Be Disabled (ghacks.net)

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US to fund Trump-aligned Europeans building 'civilisational bonds' (ft.com)

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The CIA's Family Jewels (2007) (gwu.edu)

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[flagged] America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD (fortune.com)

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Everybody Should Welcome Nationalizing AI (jacobin.com)

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Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act (dw.com)

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Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis (theguardian.com)

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Meritocracy in Perspective. The Rise of the Meritocracy 60 Years on (2020) (wiley.com)

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Big Tech Is Turning A.I.'S Dystopia into Reality (tribunemag.co.uk)

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Odysee: The new YouTube for the far-right (2017) (gnet-research.org)

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U.S. replaced textbooks with laptops, resulting in a generation less capable (fortune.com)

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Sun Microsystems CEO: You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it (techradar.com)

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Lidiap – list of digitized anarchist periodicals (ficedl.info)

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Antiuniversity Now (antiuniversity.org)

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Your Data built the AI boom – but Big Tech is pocketing 100% of the equity (marketwatch.com)

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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who laid off 3,200 employees, to lead task force on jobs (pcgamer.com)

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Under Lula, Amazon deforestation falls to lowest level in a decade (aljazeera.com)

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Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C (novaramedia.com)

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Almost $1B Later, the US Still Can't Make a Medical Glove (bloomberg.com)

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Entire police department relieved of duty in West Virginia town (thehill.com)

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Romania's "Palantir": the entrepreneur selling "sovereign AI" to secret services (eualive.net)

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Trump's 'narco‑terrorism' war in Latin America evokes Reagan (theconversation.com)

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Govt Bracing for Nationwide Anti-AI Riots, Preparing to Crack Down on Dissent (mintpressnews.com)

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Freedom Isn't Free (2018) (logicmag.io)

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The Canary magazine has been debanked by Lloyds Bank in the UK (thecanary.co)

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VPNs in the UK Are About to Become Pointless [video] (youtube.com)

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The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting (europeancorrespondent.com)

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Life After Oligarchy (commonweal.scot)

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Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression' (businessinsider.com)

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No one is self-made (aeon.co)

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The weirdest things a leak revealed about Peter Thiel's club (theguardian.com)

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Mental health is not an individual matter, but a political one (2023) (psyche.co)

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'Who is going to pay us when we're replaced by robots?' (theguardian.com)

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It's Well Past Time for a Four-Day Workweek (jacobin.com)

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The crises are not stopping: why we urgently need an income floor system (autonomy.work)

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A universal basic income could rebuild social cohesion (AU) (independentaustralia.net)

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Searching for Guy Debord (2003) (brooklynrail.org)

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Four-Day Week Could Transform Employment Access for Disabled Workers (disabilityrightsuk.org)

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The world's burning. Who's betting on it? (shado-mag.com)

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We economists have done the maths: 'growth' is a doomed strategy (theguardian.com)

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The U.S. Is Terrorizing Cuba to Make Rich Men Richer (currentaffairs.org)

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AI Billionaires Brace for Pitchforks (axios.com)

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Palantir is turning the NHS into a tool for mass surveillance (opendemocracy.net)

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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)