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#UBI for creatives: could this be compensation for the rampant theft of copyright by #BigTech? #HouseofLords told this is a "helpful suggestion". @ubilabnetwork.bsky.social

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In good company in Pages in Hackney ❤️ @danhancox.bsky.social @alvagotby.bsky.social @helenhester.bsky.social

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Huge congratulations to @wstronge.bsky.social & @helenhester.bsky.social on this masterpiece. Lots of political shifts (to put it mildly) since this book was conceived & it’s more important than ever…#postwork @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social

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3 big projects underway at @autonomy-institute.bsky.social right now: 1. Scottish government's public sector shorter work week pilot. 2. Scoping a UBI pilot for a local authority. 3. Consulting on London's new night life taskforce. Plus new line of work on public services coming soon...👀

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Upon the Autonomy shelf.

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📚NEW BLOG: a post-work bibliography I've given my best shot at listing texts that I think fit the description 'post-work': a porous and contestable category of course. This is useful because there are a LOT of lazy characterisations out there... autonomy.work/portfolio/po...

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That's a horrendous statistic...

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Richard Tice wants to make money out of green tech when it suits him (and his companies), but hamper its roll out for others. As @autonomy-institute.bsky.social revealed last year: www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

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EDICa's remit also covers the arts, which have their own challenges for EDI. This article touches on the cost of living, tuition fees not keeping up, the difficulty of PT jobs while studying leading to an exclusionary system. 1/3 https://buff.ly/41fMBsv

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The new book has arrived! Seven years in the making (very weird to have it in front of me). Looking forward to hearing what you think: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postwork-...

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BLOG: why write a book on 'post-work'? Why now? It's taken various iterations, over several years, and we (@helenhester.bsky.social and I) felt the need to make a much more significant intervention than a mere primer...🧵 autonomy.work/portfolio/po...

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Great interview with @will-davies.bsky.social and Ash here: youtu.be/o6WZy08QlRI?... You don't have to run DeepSeek through Project 2025 though: we've made an AI-boosted index for you so you can jump to relevant sections very easily: www.project2025index.com

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Psst, buddy... Wanna see some endorsements? My book with @wstronge.bsky.social is out this month. Here's some of the generous comments we received from kind and brilliant people.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Very happy with this book (coming out soon!) These kind words from people we respect greatly were hugely appreciated❤️

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This is painfully true.

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Reducir la jornada laboral ya no es una utopía inalcanzable. Hoy hemos aprobado en el Consejo de Ministros el Anteproyecto de Ley para reducir la jornada laboral. 12 millones de personas hoy están más cerca de trabajar menos y vivir mejor.

submitted 28 days ago • 45 comments

This sums it up nicely.

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Great piece from Edgerton here. The new young bucks pedalling fixing the "foundations" are just old fashioned neolibs with a new style guide. www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/1...

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Käänne-festivaalilla puhuttiin työajan lyhentämisestä. @liandersson.bsky.social'n, Sanna Marinin ja @wstronge.bsky.social'n kanssa keskusteli @saalsi.bsky.social, joka on kirjoittanut Kalevi Sorsa -säätiölle katsauksen Työajan lyhentämisen ekologiset vaikutukset.

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Work-life balance was the highest-ranking factor for staff for their current or future jobs for 83% of the 26,000 workers surveyed across 35 countries, in line with job security (83%), and slightly ahead of pay (82%. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Enjoyed Kaane festival, where I shared a platform with much more famous people - and where at some point I was beamed into a nearby pub, looking like some kind of dull dictator.

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I think so often of his instructions to projectionists for Mulholland Drive.

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Anyone else going to KAANNE festival in Helsinki this weekend - hit me up!

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The typical individual at the top of the income scale puts as much CO2 into the atmosphere as all those from the bottom 9 income groups combined. We can't survive the very rich. Report here: autonomy.work/portfolio/cl...

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Something new on the Autonomy blog, for your afternoon read: 'What are the policy implications of an updated model of human minds?' Here: autonomy.work/portfolio/ex... Summary thread...

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Have a good break everyone.

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My 12 favourite tracks this year (not necessarily released in 2024): open.spotify.com/playlist/3b0...

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Fundamentally, it's not about Musk/Reform. It's about the fact that this sort of donation is possible at all. Argue it from first principles not from proximate context. And those principles? A functioning democracy. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Hours after Musk said 'only the AfD can save Germany', one of their supporters carried out a terrorist attack www.ft.com/content/5e2f...

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No va sólo de reducir la jornada laboral, va de evitar el cinismo y destrozar la confianza. El PSOE debería entenderlo. publico.es/opinion/colu...

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My boy Cosimo coming through with the Scamorza.

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A great end of year team day❄️🎊

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To those people who have thought, or still think, that "UBI is ambiguous because Musk has mentioned it a few times".... The go-to for the very rich is to cut social security, not to massively increase it. Universal, unconditional income is in the opposite direction of these people.

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In an economic crisis with growing threat of right wing populists, Centrist political inclination is to tell us how bad, difficult and complex it all is. This just feeds the reactionaries who have easy wrong answers. You fight right wing with bold radical vision and rapid anti inequality policy.

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Awesome new paper out today, with a neat video explainer...

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