Manuel Aguilar Hendrickson

@hendrix-bcn.eurosky.social

Social care, social services, minimum income, anti-poverty policy

The Democratic Party’s mega-donor class is horrified by the rising tide of progressive populism. Too bad. It's time they recognize the real choice is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works for a small sliver at the top.

An important note of caution for younger researchers. Digitalization or AI is not a panacea. In my lifetime I have seen dozens, if not hundreds, of surveys and datasets that have been lost. They disappeared because of incompatibility between different operating systems.

Como dijo el filósofo Toni Domènech, a pesar de los ríos de tinta que los reaccionarios desde Nietzsche han escrito sobre el resentimiento de los pobres como origen de la moral, la realidad es que los resentidos son los reaccionarios y los ricos, y su desprecio hacia pobres y vulnerables es cósmico.

Casfetera 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸@casfetera.bsky.social · 6d ago

Resulta extraordinario hasta qué punto los referentes intelectuales de la derecha son el producto de una cultura del resentimiento.

Trying to be nice to everybody is a wrong approach in a memoir by one of the foremost intellectuals of our time. A memoir is not a letter of recommendation that one writes for his friends. Neither us, nor future readers, will be interested in the names of the multitudes who have met Sen.

Branko Milanovic@brankomilan.bsky.social · 6d ago

The many in one A review of Amartya Sen’s “Home in the world: A memoir” branko2f7.substack.com/p/the-many-i...

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

Mother Jones

"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
Sophie Hurwitz@hurwitz.bsky.social · 7d ago

This story’s got everything: Spiderman-villain weaponry, Black Hawk Down, vaccine conspiracy theories, weird YouTube videos www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Por ejemplo: Sergei Brin co-fundador de Google y el cuarto hombre más rico del mundo, cuya fortuna ronda los 267.000 millones de dólares, se ha gastado ya más de 100 en una campaña para evitar pagar impuestos por un valor estimado de 13.300 millones. fortune.com/2026/08/11/g...

Casfetera 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸@casfetera.bsky.social · 2w ago

La peor amenaza para nuestro futuro no son los inmigrantes, sino los multimillonarios.

La mierda esta de la condicionalidad que tanto gusta a los “partidos de orden” nunca consigue lo que pretenden (integración, inserción, activación,…) y siempre genera pobreza y exclusión. No deja de ser una manifestación más de su aporofobia. www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...

Junts propone condicionar las ayudas sociales a inmigrantes a su “capacidad de integración”

Salvador Vergés defiende “confrontar” con argumentos a Aliança Catalana

lavanguardia.com

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

O de cómo los derechos de los accionistas, que aprietan a los directivos de las corporaciones que adquieren las grandes marcas para exprimir hasta la última gota de beneficio, son incompatibles con los de los consumidores, que cada vez obtienen peores productos de ellas a cambio de su dinero.

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2w ago

Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed?