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BenDuto
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‘Dwang tot activiteit is […] een efficiënt machtsmiddel. De revolutie blijft uit omdat we geen tijd hebben om niets te doen en na te denken.’ (Lieke Knijnenburg; @groene.nl)

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Luieren om te ontsnappen aan de kapitalistische ratrace? Soms moet je juist in actie komen
De opgejaagde mens wil loskomen van de productiviteitsdwang door ‘niets’ te doen. Maar is vrije tijd niet zelf het probleem geworden? Soms volstaat luieren niet als verzet.
www.groene.nl
July 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
‘[F]inancial profit-making at the top is perhaps better viewed as a form of rent collection than as speculation.’ (Martin Bernstein; @jacobinmag.bsky.social)

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Money for Nothing
Why the modern financial sector is better at extracting rents than funding the future.
jacobin.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
‘De kwetsbaarste mensen […] zijn enkel gebaat bij […] een onderbouwd klimaatbeleid dat […] niet langer louter economisch opportunisme dient maar ook intergenerationele rechtvaardigheid, en de zwaarste lasten bij de grootste vervuilers legt.’ (@klimaatzaak.bsky.social; @demorgen.be)
Klimaatuitspraak Internationaal Gerechtshof stelt verantwoordelijkheid van België nogmaals op scherp
Serge de Gheldere, Ignace Schops, David Van Reybrouck, Tom Lenaerts, Nic Balthazar, Koen Vanmechelen, Francesca Vanthielen, Johan Van Den Bosch, Lambert Schoenmaekers, Dirk De Clippeleir, Tom Brookes,...
www.demorgen.be
July 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Reposted by BenDuto
How did 3M’s “forever chemicals” end up in all of us? Inside the story of the corporate scientists who discovered—then helped to conceal—the dangers of its chemicals.
How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals
The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.
nyer.cm
July 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
‘[A]s society increasingly relies upon LLMs for immediate convenience, long-term brain development may be sacrificed in the process.’ (@andrewrchow.bsky.social; TIME Magazine)

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ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
time.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Massatoerisme — of: als toerisme een kankergezwel wordt
March 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Idiotic capitalism now fuelled by ‘Artificial Ignorance’
February 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
'There is a sense that an ethos of collective sacrifice for the common good *should* fall disproportionately on those who are already, by their choice of line of work, engaged in sacrifice for the common good.' (David Graeber)

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@davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
David Graeber, conversation avec Philippe Descola (VO)
YouTube video by Collège de France
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January 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
January 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Hail to the Thief
December 29, 2024 at 4:55 PM
‘[W]ork means everything to us inhabitants of modern market societies – regardless of whether it still produces solid character and allocates incomes rationally, and quite apart from the need to make a living.’ (James Livingston; @aeon.co) aeon.co/essays/what-...
What if jobs are not the solution but the problem? | Aeon Essays
Economists believe in full employment. Americans think that work builds character. But what if jobs aren’t working anymore?
aeon.co
December 27, 2024 at 1:24 PM
‘It may seem a little dramatic, but take a second and really think about how many little digital irritations you deal with in a day. It’s time to wake up to the fact that our digital lives are rotten.’ (@edzitron.com) www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 19, 2024 at 3:34 AM
Until debt tears us apart..
December 18, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Reposted by BenDuto
This is an extract from an interview David Graeber did for the economist called 'Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism.'

www.economist.com/open-future/...
Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism
Populism, pointless work and panicked youth: an interview with David Graeber of LSE
www.economist.com
December 15, 2024 at 1:23 PM
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social’s description of academia in the foreword of David Graeber’s #TheUltimateHiddenTruthOfTheWorld is just sublime.

@davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 7:58 PM
'[T]hose who do the lion’s share of [the] care work that keeps us alive are overtaxed, underpaid, and daily humiliated' (David Graeber; @jacobinmag.bsky.social) jacobin.com/2021/03/davi... @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
David Graeber: After the Pandemic, We Can’t Go Back to Sleep
In an essay penned shortly before his death, David Graeber argued that post-pandemic, we can’t slip back into a reality where the way our society is organized — to serve every whim of a small handful ...
jacobin.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Reposted by BenDuto
📢 In een open brief roepen tientallen middenveldorganisaties, academici, bedrijven en burgers Vlaams minister van Landbouw en Omgeving Jo Brouns op om de toekomst van vormingscentrum Landwijzer te beschermen. Meer weten? 👉 Lees en teken de open brief via forms.gle/pFULuEKzf5AS...
Open brief: Vlaanderen kan zich het verlies van biolandbouwopleiding Landwijzer niet permitteren
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December 3, 2024 at 12:10 PM
'[M]ost people have been led to believe that economic growth equals human progress.' (Olivier De Schutter; @theguardian.com) www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Growth is enriching an elite and killing the planet. We need an economy based on human rights | Olivier De Schutter
Economic growth allows the few to grow ever-wealthier. Ending poverty and environmental catastrophe demands fresh thinking
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:11 PM
December 1, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Een universeel basisinkomen zou geen aalmoes zijn, geen liefdadigheid, maar rechtvaardigheid. We hebben er allen recht op. www.dewereldmorgen.be/artikel/2021...
Waarom iedereen recht heeft op een onvoorwaardelijk basisinkomen
Er zijn meerdere argumenten die de introductie van een onvoorwaardelijk basisinkomen ondersteunen. De belangrijkste zijn (sociale) rechtvaardigheid, (individuele) vrijheid en basiszekerheid (van leven...
www.dewereldmorgen.be
November 21, 2024 at 8:09 AM
‘[T]he biggest flaw of all is the almost religious faith placed in higher GDP growth to raise living standards all round. Under rentier capitalism income gushes upwards, little trickles down.’ (Guy Standing, @prospectmagazine.bsky.social ) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/685...
Trump 2.0 is a warning for Rachel Reeves
Without a radical change of course by the chancellor, Britain faces another populist insurrection
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 19, 2024 at 4:22 PM