Tag: Big Tech
How Capitalism Disordered Our Eating
Metaphors for the body abound: a many-horse-powered machine, a delicate ecosystem, a knife-cut sculpture. Eating disorders might skirt the body’s regular rules, but they’re still invested in symmetry and measurements, engineering; the body reimagined as a race car instead of a sensible sedan. Built for speed, stares, grinding to a sudden halt and burning up, sparking gasps.
At first, the hum. A nicotine head high, a purring engine. The numbers going down, the compliments adding up
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POLITICO Europe’s most-read stories of 2023 – POLITICO
Well, here we are folks, at the end of another turbulent year.
When we put this list together at the end of 2022, its contents largely covered something many of us thought we would not see again in our lifetime: a major war in Europe. Now, we are grappling with two wars in our immediate neighborhood, as the slaughter drags on in Ukraine, and conflict rages between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
In Ukraine, the long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia, which
Every bill in the King’s Speech, reviewed and rated – POLITICO
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LONDON – This is the list of new laws Rishi Sunak hopes will save his skin come election-time.
Tuesday’s King’s Speech — in which King Charles III read out the British government’s legislative agenda for the crucial pre-election term ahead — was packed with promises from Sunak’s Conservative Party.
With the clock ticking down to an election which must be held before the end of January 2025, the King’s
Meta’s Zuckerberg not holding breath over Musk cage fight
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Sunday that he’s not holding his breath over the proposed cage fight with Elon Musk, who runs SpaceX and Tesla, and also owns Twitter (now called X).
The idea for a physical fight between the two high-profile tech billionaires came from Musk in June, when he tweeted: “I’m up for a cage fight if he is lol.”
Zuckerberg, who
Twitter’s turn to X marks the spot for EU trademark trouble – POLITICO
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BRUSSELS — Twitter turned into X this week, marking the spot for trademark lawyers to send off legal warnings to its billionaire owner Elon Musk.
Rockers Metallica, software giant Microsoft, carmaker Honda and sportswear brand Adidas all own versions of X as a trademark.
There are already 262 Xs registered as trademarks with the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office, according to an agency database. These give companies exclusive rights
How UK’s Online Safety Bill fell victim to never-ending political crisis – POLITICO
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LONDON — Britain’s attempt to rein in the internet has turned into a political omnishambles.
The country’s masterplan — known as the Online Safety Bill — would require social media giants like Facebook and YouTube to quickly remove illegal content like revenge porn or hate speech, or face hefty penalties and even potential criminal prosecutions for tech executives who fail to act.
Yet the landmark rules, which are expected
Big Tech Founders Are America’s False Idols
My first job out of UCLA was in the analyst program at Morgan Stanley, in the 1980s. Like most of my analyst class, I had no idea what investment banking was—only that we were at the helm of the capitalist bobsled and could make a lot of money. We paid scant consideration to the wider role finance played in society. We were charged with birthing the apex predator of the capitalist species, the public company. Our economic mission, we
What you need to know (and worry about) – POLITICO
Welcome back! After a scorching summer, Brussels people are trickling back into the office or, for many of you, the home office setup.
A word of warning: It’s going to be an intense rentrée.
From the war in Ukraine to spiking energy prices, EU officials will have their hands full keeping their policy agendas on track amid escalating geopolitical crises. The most obvious field to be disrupted is energy, as leaders scramble to fill up gas reserves and keep
Wie ein Bostoner Startup Stahl grüner machen will
In den Tagen, nachdem der Oberste Gerichtshof der USA das verfassungsmäßige Recht auf Abtreibung aufgehoben hatte, beeilten sich Technologieunternehmen, ihre Unterstützung für Mitarbeiter zu zeigen, die in Staaten leben, in denen das Verfahren jetzt verboten ist. Meta versprach, die Kosten für Mitarbeiter zu übernehmen, die für eine Abtreibung aus ihrem Heimatstaat reisen müssen. Alphabet, die Muttergesellschaft von Google, sagte den Mitarbeitern, sie könnten einen Umzug aus Staaten beantragen, die Abtreibung verbieten.
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A wonk’s guide to the Czech EU presidency policy agenda – POLITICO
This article is part of POLITICO’s Guide to the Czech EU Presidency special report.
The Czech presidency needs to carry the EU through an energy crisis, galloping inflation and a war in Ukraine — all on a shoestring budget.
Call it the crisis presidency.
In the midst of a war and a gathering economic crisis, the small Central European country will be tasked with making sure the EU secures a lasting supply of energy while not letting go of its