The Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

April 13, 2023

Women’s work is not valued properly
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In an interview with The Hindu, Ghosh talks about gender blindness of official policies, inequalities in society, the state of women empowerment and why women face multiple disadvantages in India.

Rashida Tlaib and the Squad Are Demanding Julian Assange’s Freedom
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Lawmakers around the world are again calling on the US to halt its unprecedented prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. For the first time, they are being joined by US congressmembers, led by Rashida Tlaib.

The urgent need to repudiate debt
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States, faced today with the international economic crisis articulated with the consequences of the climate and health crises, should invoke the “fundamental change of circumstances” to stop reimbursing their creditors in order to come to the aid of their populations. Because, ultimately, human rights must effectively prevail over creditors’ rights.

Indigenous communities fight Canada's 'holy shit' fix for tar sands wastewater
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Water protectors, environmentalists, and scientists are campaigning to stop Canada's plan to release treated tar sands tailings waste into the Athabasca River

Life or Debt: The Stranglehold of Neocolonialism and Africa’s Search for Alternatives
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The Tricontinental | Dossier no. 63 explores the origins of the debt crisis in Africa, exposing the Western financial chokehold as its source and exploring what alternatives can be built.

AI-GPT: a game changer? – Michael Roberts Blog
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Will LLMs be a game changer for capitalism in this decade? Will these self-learning machines be able to increase the productivity of labour at an unprecedented rate and so take the major economies out of their current ‘long depression’ of low real GDP, investment and income growth; and then enable the world to take new strides out of poverty? This is the claim by some of the ‘techno-optimists’ that occupy the media.