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“Consumers are now expected to address a wide variety of social issues through their individual consumption choices (e.g., global warming, income inequality) whereas in the past these issues would have been addressed structurally by governments, as part of a broader movement of individualization.”

The Consumer Experience of Responsibilization: The Case of Panera Cares - Journal of Business Ethics

In this paper, we explore the consumer experience of responsibilization, wherein consumers are tasked with addressing social issues via thei

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The ‘wicked trinity’ of late capitalism: Governing in an era of stagnation, surplus humanity, and environmental breakdown

Scholars within the fields of political ecology, environmental political theory, and international political economy tend to evaluate the pr

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Unequal exchange of labour in the world economy - Nature Communications

Hickel and colleagues find that, in 2021, the economies of the global North net-appropriated 826 billion hours of embodied labour from the g

In 2021, the economies of the global North net-appropriated 826 billion hours of embodied labour from the global South, across all skill levels and sectors. The wage value of this labour was equivalent to €16.9 trillion in Northern prices.

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Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015

Unequal exchange theory posits that economic growth in the “advanced economies” of the global North relies on a large net appropriation of r

The North net-appropriated 12 billion tons of embodied raw materials, 822 million hectares of embodied land, 21 exajoules of embodied energy, and 188 million person-years of embodied labour from the global South in a single year.

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"Ten reasons why carbon markets will not bring about radical emissions reduction"

Carbon markets as failure

Carbon markets as loophole

Carbon markets as unjust development

Carbon markets as fossil fuel subsidy

Carbon markets as regressive

Carbon markets as corruption

Carbon markets as utopian faith in pricing

Carbon markets as scientism

Carbon markets as technocracy

Carbon markets as obstacle

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Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University

Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. Howe

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Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes show new proof that those claims are overblown and unlikely to ever come to fruition. Their findings are published in Computational Brain & Behavior today.

Creating artificial general intelligence (AGI) with human-level cognition is ‘impossible’, explains Iris van Rooij, lead author of the paper and professor of Computational Cognitive Science, who heads the Cognitive Science and AI department at Radboud University. ‘Some argue that AGI is possible in principle, that it’s only a matter of time before we have computers that can think like humans think. But principle isn’t enough to make it actually doable. Our paper explains why chasing this goal is a fool’s errand, and a waste of humanity’s resources.’

van Rooij, I., Guest, O., Adolfi, F. et al. Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science. Comput Brain Behav (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42113-024-00217-5

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this is a very specific thing to gripe about but i’ve noticed cornell’s lab of ornithology’s birds of the world has started to monopolize bird-biology relevant information and absorbing it into their site, which currently needs a membership in order to access it. if a university can afford to pay for this membership good for them but i think of smaller universities and independent bird fans being locked out by a paywall and i hate to see it