#market
#Business users of IT strongly condemn #market behaviour of #Broadcom and urge the European Commission to take appropriat action
In the context of the VMware takeover and the change in business #strategy, Broadcom's contempt and brutality towards its #customers are unprecedented in the recent history of the #digital #economy in #Europe.
Excerpts from the Special Article
How does this stuff (below) tie together? You have to read the article!
#Words no longer need to have #objective meanings in this #market. Everything is about ‘ #attention’, however achieved. True or false. That’s what the advertisers wanted. Words could mean what those in #power say they mean. The ‘ #truth’ behind the #narrative became irrelevant.
What mattered was the force of a narrative, now divorced from meaning, to compel a singularity of messaging, and to demand that #belief in the new order be reflected, not just in #compliance, but in #assimilation of the messaging into personal conduct in life. Critical thinking was disallowed as denoting an enemy; a threat to be crushed.
#Search Engine Market Share #Worldwide - February 2024
#Google 91.62%
#bing 3.31%
#YANDEX 1.84%
#Yahoo! 1.08%
#Baidu 0.77%
#DuckDuckGo 0.53%
Source: https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share
#economy #software #web #www #internet #monopoly #competition #problem #news #market #world
Marché des Enfant Rouges
Le Marais
Paris
Photo of the Day
from my daily photo blog
#Architecture #Photography #People #Market #Produce #Restaurant #Paris
UN condemns Ukrainian attack that killed 27 civilians in Russian city
#UN #condemns #Ukrainian #attack that #killed #27 #civilians in #Russian #city #Ukraine #Russia
"Moscow has called the bombardment of a busy #market in #Donetsk a “ #barbaric #terrorist #act ”
https://davidgraeber.org/articles/hope-in-common/
Hope in Common
#DAVIDGRAEBER
..."Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced.... a vast apparatus of armies, prisons, police, various forms of private security firms and police and military intelligence apparatus, propaganda engines of every conceivable variety, most of which do not attack #alternatives directly so much as they create a pervasive climate of #fear, jingoistic conformity, and simple despair that renders any thought of changing the world seem an idle fantasy. Maintaining this apparatus seems even more important, to exponents of the “free market,” even than maintaining any sort of viable #market #economy. How else can one explain, for instance, what happened in the former Soviet Union, where one would have imagined the end of the Cold War would have led to the dismantling of the army and KGB and rebuilding the factories, but in fact what happened was precisely the other way around? This is just one extreme example of what has been happening everywhere. Economically, this apparatus is pure dead weight; all the guns, surveillance cameras, and #propaganda engines are extraordinarily expensive and really produce nothing, and as a result, it’s dragging the entire #capitalist system down with it, and possibly, the earth itself.
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our perceptions having been twisted into knots by decades of relentless propaganda, we are no longer able to see them. Consider here the term “communism.” Rarely has a term come to be so utterly reviled. The standard line, which we accept more or less unthinkingly, is that communism means state control of the economy, and this is an impossible utopian dream because history has shown it simply “doesn’t work.” Capitalism, however unpleasant, is thus the only remaining option. But in fact communism really just means any situation where people act according to the principle of “from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs” — which is the way pretty much everyone always act if they are working together to get something done. If two people are fixing a pipe and one says “hand me the wrench,” the other doesn’t say, “and what do I get for it?”(That is, if they actually want it to be fixed.) This is true even if they happen to be employed by Bechtel or Citigroup. They apply principles of communism because it’s the only thing that really works. This is also the reason whole cities or countries revert to some form of rough-and-ready communism in the wake of natural disasters, or economic collapse (one might say, in those circumstances, markets and hierarchical chains of command are luxuries they can’t afford.) The more creativity is required, the more people have to improvise at a given task, the more egalitarian the resulting form of communism is likely to be: that’s why even Republican computer engineers, when trying to innovate new software ideas, tend to form small democratic collectives. It’s only when work becomes standardized and boring — as on production lines — that it becomes possible to impose more authoritarian, even fascistic forms of communism. But the fact is that even private companies are, internally, organized communistically.
Communism then is already here. The question is how to further democratize it. Capitalism, in turn, is just one possible way of managing communism — and, it has become increasingly clear, rather a disastrous one. Clearly we need to be thinking about a better one: preferably, one that does not quite so systematically set us all at each others’ throats.
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at the very least we can start with a pledge against #evictions: to pledge, #neighborhood by neighborhood, to support each other if any of us are to be driven from our homes. The power is not just that to challenge regimes of debt is to challenge the very fiber of #capitalism — its moral foundation — now revealed to be a collection of broken promises — but in doing so, to create a new one. A debt after all is only that: a promise, and the present world abounds with promises that have not been kept. ... the promise offered by capitalism — that we could live like kings if we were willing to buy stock in our own collective subordination. All of this has come crashing down. What remains is what we are able to promise one another. Directly.
Without the mediation of economic and political bureaucracies. The revolution begins by asking: what sort of promises do free men and women make to one another, and how, by making them, do we begin to make another world?"...
#Turkey: Central Bank Chief Moves Into Parents’ #Apartment As #Inflation Hits #Istanbul Property
Turkey’s central bank head, #HafizeGayeRrkan says she has been priced out of Istanbul’s property #market by rampant inflation, leaving her with no choice but to move back her parents’ apartment.
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“Is it possible that Istanbul has gotten more expensive than #Manhattan?” she said.
I've two questions:
1) What do normal people do with a normal job and without parents or friends in Istanbul? (Are they sleeping in their office or under the bridge?)
2) Is the apartment market now only for billionaires?
#fail #problem #news #living #money #finance #city #politics #economy #capitalism
#China’s economic troubles will have global consequences
This week, #Moody’s, the international ratings agency, downgraded its outlook for China’s #credit #rating from “stable” to “negative”, while maintaining the country’s A1 credit rating for now. The agency expressed concern about the weakening economic outlook and rising #debt capacity problems.
#economy #problem #capitalism #politics #trade #trouble #problem #crisis #future #finance #market #news
Playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M59cP-IGShk
#conflictofinterest
#regulators #ppp #forprofit #publicinterest #agileregulations #safeandeffective #backdoor #advancedtherapeutics #health #market #generesequencing #nanotechnology #hippocraticoath #harm #safetytesting #foxinchargeofhenhouse #cartbeforehorse #verydangerous #facethehorror #wecanstillmendthis #awareness #speakout
#Egypt just dropped a BOMBSHELL in the Israel Hamas War | Redacted with Clayton Morris reporting from Northern Egypt 6:07 minutes
Egypt Claims It Warned #Israel Of Upcoming Attack
October 09, 2023
Will this finally end Netanyahoo's rein?
Egypt says Israel ignored warnings Hamas planned major offensive - Yedioth Ahranoth - Oct 9 2023
Egypt warned Israel of a pending Hamas attack ten days before terrorists breached the border and took control of military bases, and communities, killing more than 700 and taking 150 captive including women and children.
"We have warned them an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon, and it would be big. But they underestimated such warnings,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the content of sensitive intelligence discussions with the media, told The Associated Press.
The Egyptian official said the Israelis were concentrated on the tension on the West Bank and did not consider the Gaza ruling terror group to be a threat despite repeated warningד that the Egyptians though were not being taken seriously.
One would hope so. But the story will certainly be denied. And due to the war Bibi may still keep his seat.
Netenyahu: "There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel. We are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly"
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SLGTOFP2QK8
It's thought that Hamas has bought US arms from #Ukraine on the #Black #Market and fired them on Israel.
#America’s ‘Neoliberal’ #Consensus Might Finally Be Dead
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/opinion/neoliberal-consensus-china-trade.html
On the domestic front, the implication is clear: a recognition that the free-market policies of the past several decades have punished the American working and middle classes, particularly in politically sensitive areas of the Rust Belt. Or, in the language of the campaign trail: Trade deals need to benefit the people of Pennsylvania and Michigan rather than those of Shenzhen and Shanghai.
#Neoliberal #globalism #politics #market #economy #finance #money #poverty #capitalism #news #usa #trade
The other I went to a #market and found a stand selling all kinds of wild mushrooms. I looooove mushrooms, and have collected some myself (Chicken of the woods being my best find ever) but because I'm #colorblind, I often don't dare collect mushrooms, because correctly idying them is very difficult for me.
I really appreciated the chance of being able to eat a wide variety of mushrooms, so the challenge then was deciding how to prepare them. The solution: #Vegan mushroom pizza!! I have to say it's one of the best pizzas I've had in a long time!
#Crypto winter is here—and #NFT #artist #royalties are under #hreat
source: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/12/02/nft-artist-royalties-under-threat
Even though NFT creator fees are #contracts, #blockchain #code cannot actually enforce #token transfer stipulations, rendering those contracts essentially voluntary by design. From an operational perspective, royalties were never guaranteed on the blockchain; instead, the documentation of each NFT only requests a royalty, a procedure that platforms have previously honoured in more favourable #market conditions.
In the end, apart from the #scam, there is not much left to speak about in favor of Crypto.
#news #crime #cybercrime #money #finance #fail #technology #software #wtf #omg
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Petit récapitulatif des marchés de noël auxquels je participe et sur lesquels vous pouvez (re)découvrir mes tirages photo et mes créations, les voir en vrai, faire vos cadeaux de noël, ou de solstice ou d'anniversaire ou de départ en retraite ou de rien de spécial mais juste parce que l'art ça fait du bien.
Dimanche 20 novembre j'étais au marché artisanal de Fontenilles près de Toulouse.
Dimanche 27 novembre à Villeneuve Tolosane près de Toulouse.
Dimanche 4 décembre, marché de créateurices au château de Puissentut à Homps dans le Gers.
Dimanche 11 décembre à Grenade sur Garonne, entre Toulouse et Montauban.
Samedi 17 décembre à Castanet Tolosan près de Toulouse.
A bientôt 🌲🌟❤️
#noel #art #artisanat #creation #marche #toulouse #fontenilles #villeneuvetolosane #homps #grenade #grenadesurgaronne #castanettolosan #castanet #christmas #market #artist #craft #artiste #photographe #dessin #ecriture #photographer #drawing #writing