It's #EuropeDay !

Each 9 May, we mark the anniversary of the historic 'Schuman declaration' of 1950 which set Europe on a path of economic and political cooperation.

🤝🌍 Multinational partnerships for peace and prosperity are at the heart of the EU 🇪🇺.

Published yesterday: yet another poll showing the public overwhelmingly disapproves of generative AI companies training on creators' work without permission.

- 60% think AI companies shouldn't be able to use 'publicly available' data to train their models (vs. 19% think they…

The increasing financial dependence of museums on private funders results from policies that aimed to make cult institutions less homogeneous & more plural. It is now clear that such policies failed. Public funding & arm’s length approaches are the best guarantees of pluralism

What happened when Denmark cut welfare for refugees? Small gains in adult employment were offset by larger losses from school failure, lower earnings and crime among children affected by the policy.

Your periodic reminder: “if you want to protect creators , provide rights that are robust & easy to enforce. That don’t require an army to enforce. Expand meaningful consent — don’t shrink it & pretend that’s a form of liberation.”

👀 ⁦Ed Newton-Rex⁩ medium.com/@nturkewitz_56…

Expanding Velina’s post with two comments:
1) Macron wanting more economic and strategic independence from other world powers is a typical sign of a multipolar, fragmented world order where middle powers want to expand their clout.
2) A multipolar world is, however, not what…

Embarrassing & astonishing! How could Nesta,Reform & IPPR risk their prestige not citing the author that everyone knows initiated the mission economy idea? But great that everybody wants mission-led government. Big success for Mariana Mazzucato

This is 'safety' and 'free speech' at Dartmouth 🌲: former director of Jewish studies and history professor Annelise Orleck thrown to the ground by cops while engaged in nonviolent protest. Her 'crime'--emphatic speech. Shame.

In my newest book 'Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security' (Bloomsbury, 2024) 📖🇩🇪🇨🇳 I have outlined my theory of change (TOC) /3

Nick Merriman: 'Separation between nature & culture led to a 'blind spot' in terms of #climatechange '.

#greenloop24 Come join us: tinyurl.com/mrxwpx68

“AI” will not replace you. A person making half what you do with no benefits whose job is the same as yours was but now includes babysitting “AI” will.

As for most of the last 20 years, the talk about European values may come from the west but the fight to defend them is largely taking place in the east.

Erik Jones Richard Youngs In the Cold War era, the multilateral institutions shaping the international economy were wholly controlled by the West.

The main difference with today's dynamics is that many actors are now challenging the West, says Erik Jones.

Follow the discussion 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=DTh4Ca…

‘the protests are robbing my Columbia students of listening to John Cage’s 4’33, the piece of music that is explicitly designed to force you to listen to…what’s around you.’ absolutely perfect

Karl Polanyi, the Austrian-Hungarian social theorist, died 60 years ago today. His view that the liberalising movement of capitalist societies meets its resistance in a countermovement defending society from atomisation and commodification is a powerful explanation of our time.

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