Coming soon...with an exciting agenda and a great line-up...with IDEAs - Africa Network (IDAN) IDEAs Coalition for Dialogue on Africa Kai Koddenbrock Maha Ben Gadha🔻

This is horrifying. And consider the pinkwashing that is often used to legitimise Israel's behaviour.

I spoke with The Atlantic about the AI Democracy Projects study of 5 LLMs. The misinfo generated by these chatbots sounded plausible, but was inaccurate in part or full, and is as potentially harmful to elections and democracy as deliberate disinfo Study: ias.edu/stsv-lab/ai-de…

Finally got to this excellent piece by Fernando Rugitsky on green politics and its discontents in Brazil. With some Alice Amsden wisdom in.

Here is my assessment of the ILO 2023 report on 'The value of essential work': onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/de… The report centres the problem of devaluation of essential work and provides a wealth of useful data. Yet, it fails to recognise the contested nature of the essential work 1/2

🇨🇳🇪🇺 - Despite de-risking calls, EU firms are increasingly reliant on Chinese technology • China is top supplier of high-skill, technology-intensive goods to EU, ahead of the US • By contrast EU is only small supplier of high-tech goods to China, far behind Taiwan & South Korea

happy that CA passed a bill putting at least some restrictions on private equity in healthcare sad that MA didn't, despite what happened at Steward Health got to hear directly from nurses in June: private equity deeply hurts quality of care, full stop pionline.com/alternatives/c…

To be read with the Sidecar puff piece that whitewashed her political strategy of punching down.

Roosevelt ✓ Leverage ✓ Private ownership ✓