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في ١٧ أطروحة، يتساءل خوسيه هنريكي بورتولوتشي: لماذا فقد مشروع لولا جاذبيته لدى كثير من الناخبين، رغم مكاسبه التاريخية لأفقر البرازيليين؟ وكيف حلّت محلّه فردية متطرفة، بل ثورية؟
بورتولوتشي هو مؤلف كتاب «ما هو لي» (What Is Mine) [ترجِم الكتاب إلى العربية].
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She's spot on in describing why these CEOs agreed with Coxon (vs how they treated people like me or @mer__edith).

"Their valuations will depend on how sophisticated - and, in the case of AI weapons systems, how lethal - their models are."

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France’s biggest student movement since 1968 began with blockades in the banlieues – over broken toilets, rats and 40-degree classrooms. After the crackdown, the students vanished from the headlines. Here are their stories:

“They’ve had more civic education in two weeks than I could give them in three years.” – Martin, a teacher at a vocational school in Saint-Denis

Read it here:
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In this week's Longreads Top 5:

—Bottling our brains (@Equatormag)
—Decades of doubt (@TexasMonthly)
—Cost of careers (@propublica)
—Meals in Mexico (Orion)
—Frustration of fish (@bioGraphic)

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To understand Lula’s challenge, a must-read: Brazil’s far right has produced a “revolutionary individualism… seductive and far-reaching, regardless of its cynicism, its collusion with the most brutal forms of plunder and dispossession…”

Latest interview in @Equatormag: I spoke to Chowra Makaremi and Michel Feher about the France's politics of revolt and the spectre of fascism equator.org/articles/franc…

On 17 October, French protesters chanted: “We are the children of the Algerians you didn’t drown in the Seine.” A conversation with Chowra Makaremi and Michel Feher on the revolt, the crackdown and the spectre of fascism:

“The ‘second round’ of any uprising is always fought in the courtrooms, and that is where we are now,” says Chowra Makaremi. More than 6,000 young people have already been taken into custody. Read the full conversation with @GavJacobson
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I will be logging on to this to learn more about forced labor in Mexico.

FYI

@clomnitz @marcelaturati @Equatormag

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It’s not too late to register for our online event TODAY with @alamedainst on Brazil’s elections!
Featuring three of the sharpest analysts of Brazilian politics – Rodrigo Nunes, Camila Rocha and Miguel Lago.
5pm UK / 1pm Brasília / 12pm EDT eventbrite.co.uk/e/brazil-and-t…

Marcela Turati's, Thelma Gómez Durán's, & Eliezer Budasoff's story on narco-slavery was one of the most searing, unforgettable pieces I have read in years.

This webinar on the issue, from @Equatormag - behind so much exceptional writing recently - is bound to be important.

It’s not too late to register for our online event TODAY with @alamedainst on Brazil’s elections!
Featuring three of the sharpest analysts of Brazilian politics – Rodrigo Nunes, Camila Rocha and Miguel Lago.
5pm UK / 1pm Brasília / 12pm EDT eventbrite.co.uk/e/brazil-and-t…

Just registered for this conversation; certainly important for all of us watching the second round vote in Brazil closely

Brazil’s election will have consequences far beyond its borders. Join Alameda and Equator for a discussion with leading Brazilian public intellectuals on the stakes for democracy, sovereignty and the future of the region.

Register now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/brazil-and-t…

If you are wondering what is happening in the Brazilian elections and what it means not only for the rest of Latin America but the world, @alamedainst is teaming up with @Equatormag for an event tomorrow featuring @OrangoQuango, Miguel Lago and @jemfiori eventbrite.co.uk/e/brazil-and-t…

One of the more frightening paragraphs from Arundhati Roy's recent essay on how artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination: equator.org/articles/arund…
"India, with its massive population, is a data feast for Cyclopes’ insatiable appetite. The poorest of the poor, who live in outlying villages and small towns, are being conscripted to supply every conceivable kind of information that can be mined. Workers on construction sites and factory floors are required to work with cameras fixed to their heads so that AI can cannibalise their movements to train the robots that will soon replace them. The workers know they are digging their own graves, but they can’t refuse, because multitudes are waiting to take their place. Once their jobs are gone, what will the world do with the millions of “surplus people”, the fascist classification for those who consume the Earth’s limited resources but do not contribute to society? Fascists have long had their own genocidal ideas about this."

‘Friendship’s Death’ is Peter Wollen’s 1976 story of an extraterrestrial android stranded in Amman during Black September – later a film by Wollen starring Tilda Swinton. The film has a rare screening at the ICA in London tonight – read the story here: equator.org/articles/frien…

Anyone interested in the momentous week ahead in Brazil (I would imagine everyone) should register for this essential @alamedainst/@Equatormag discussion on Thursday at 5pm

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An old but excellent @Equatormag essay about state-sponsored journalism in southern Mongolia, the rights of ethnic minorities and public record in China equator.org/articles/the-x…