This broke my heart. “Why would one of the richest men in the world commit such an act of injustice?” Halimi asked. “Sometimes I think that if Elon Musk himself were fully informed about this matter, he would likely be deeply ashamed.” Feeling shame @elonmusk @NateCavanaugh?!.

.@mgorbis.bsky.social and mgorbis on threads.

Join millions who have switched to Grok.

Why I Always Vote: my response to the irresponsible and astounding oped by Matthew Walther in the @nytimes

"Mathematica Research compared people who had received job training under the 1998 law, now known as the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, with a randomly selected control group. Thirty months later, the training had zero effect on earnings."

Looking forward to this!.

A devastating loss of an incredible human being who’s inspired so many of us at @iftf and throughout the world. Keeping that blue marble close @wallacejnichols 💔.

RT @craignewmark: New from @BrennanCenter @TheElectionsGrp and @iftf: How election officials can prepare for AI threats to 2024 elections.….

RT @SSIReview: “Foresight tools can help social sector orgs become future-ready: turning them into sensing and sense-making entities.” Mari….

It’s Time to Tax the Billionaires Today, the superrich control a greater share of America’s wealth than during the Gilded Age of Carnegies and Rockefellers.That's partly because taxes on the wealthy have cratered.

Time--number of hours per day--is one invariable in our lives and we are remarkably consistent in how we spend it (unless we eliminate sleep, in which case all bets are off!)

Congratulations to a visionary, a movement maker, and one of my favorite collaborators @nataliefoster on publishing her much needed book! You can listen to my conversation with Natalie here

"Capitalists don't want market economies, where they have to compete with one another, eroding their margins and profits – they want a planned economy, like Amazon, where Party Secretary Bezos and his commissars tell merchants what they can sell and tell us what we must pay" !!!.

RT @iftf: Where does the phrase “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” come from? .Listen to the full conversation between author @lisquart….

RT @iftf: Nearly all work will be transformed by AI-enabled tools. IFTF's foresight research takes a close look at AI's effects in the cont….

"AI could create situations where workers might retain their jobs, but critical aspects of their roles that they find enjoyable or meaningful could be replaced by technology, leaving them with tasks that feel tedious or alienating." A must read!.

"A company must be, first, a platform for human contribution if it is to be anything else at all." It shouldn't be a "corporate blender."

Journalists, out of necessity, discovering #equitableenterise Many more workers in creative and knowledge sectors will have to do so.

Same Old Song: Private Equity Is Destroying Our Music Ecosystem Another segment of our society/economy being gobbled up.

"language of climate change remains an elite, technical language. It is opaque and impenetrable to most people, and it excludes the working class." How do we make that discussion about our future accessible to, and inclusive of, a broader range of voices?.

Why the world cannot afford the rich The evidence in incontrovertible: "large differences in income are a powerful social stressor that is increasingly rendering societies dysfunctional".