If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live

Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth Carlos Hernández Photo: Alberto Di Lolli Dear reader, for the first time since I became a journalist, I have to tell you I wish you weren’t reading what I’ve written. Because if you’re reading this,… Read More If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live

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Modern labour hazards: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies… content moderation belongs in the category of dangerous work, comparable to any lethal industry: Milagros Miceli, sociologist Anuj Behal On the veranda of her family’s home, with her laptop balanced on a mud slab built into the wall, Monsumi… Read More Modern labour hazards: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

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India’s import of waste tyres spells doom

http://www.reporters-collective.in Over the past decade, the Indian automobile industry has registered consistent growth and become the world’s third-largest automobile market. The growth also means the number of end-of-life tyres has increased in India. However, the poor implementation of standards, guidelines, and rules for ensuring waste tyres are properly scrapped or recycled means doom for those… Read More India’s import of waste tyres spells doom

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Epstein Files aren’t an ‘island story’. They are about the nature of collective power

NB: An incisive commentary by Professor Mehta. “First, though there is partisan bickering, there is still a kind of attempt to exceptionalise the behaviour of this ruling class… a bounded zone in which elite actors could suspend norms without contaminating the moral order of the centre. Second, there is a pathology of modern political life,… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Epstein Files aren’t an ‘island story’. They are about the nature of collective power

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The dagger of the assassin was concealed beneath the robe of the jurist

The dagger of the assassin was concealed beneath the robe of the jurist: Justice case; Opinion delivered by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal; 1947 Juridical personalities known for partisanship and cruelty: Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville; Roland Freisler; Andrey Vyshinsky… an endless list: Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville was appointed public prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris on 10 March 1793,… Read More The dagger of the assassin was concealed beneath the robe of the jurist

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‘Deeply disturbing’: Unions slam SC dismissal of petition seeking minimum wages for domestic workers

NB: It is truly astonishing and a matter of dismay that the seniormost court in the country should show such lack of empathy combined with disdain for the most basic right of workers – the right to combine and freely associate for obtaining a better life for themselves and their families. The right to organise… Read More ‘Deeply disturbing’: Unions slam SC dismissal of petition seeking minimum wages for domestic workers

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