#ICE cited a “compelling urgency” for thousands more detention beds, & its efforts have sent #profit estimates soaring for politically connected private companies, including CoreCivic, based in the #Nashville, #Tennessee, area & another giant firm, The #GeoGroup Inc., headquartered in southern #Florida.
@openrightsgroup 
See how #fascist #PeterThiel and his like-minded cronies have embedded themselves all the way up to the highest #American halls of #power, i.e., #VPOTUS & #POTUS - while developing and peddling #invasive #AI for their own #profit.
#Palantir = "The Most Dangerous Corporation in #America"
#MustRead #MustShare #RobertReich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/palantir-the-worst-of-the-corporate
Die menschliche #Gier nach #Profit wird uns Menschen unsere #Lebensgrundlage kosten. Der Kommentar des Bundeswirtschaftsministeriums "Das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium bedauerte die Entscheidung von ArcelorMittal. Wichtig sei, dass noch keine staatlichen Gelder geflossen seien." passt ins Bild. Aber hey! Wir haben ja noch Zeit.
#deutschland #klimakrise #cdu #reiche
Bremen und Eisenhüttenstadt: ArcelorMittal verwirft Projekt für klimaneutrale Stahlproduktion - DER SPIEGEL
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/bremen-und-eisenhuettenstadt-arcelormittal-verwirft-projekt-fuer-klimaneutrale-stahlproduktion-a-758b7d13-c421-459e-9527-ac261feda037
Social Democrat TD Rory Hearne said people “need a home and people will pay whatever they can” to get one.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/a-total-shambles-renters-will-be-the-losers-due-to-market-reforms-dail-told/a1145985972.html
#Homelessness #Rent #RentControls #Profit
“We need guardrails that ensure that government officials aren’t openly asking people to buy their coins in order to increase their #Persona Profit or their family’s #profit,” Sen #JeffMerkley said on the #Senate floor.
But #Republicans refused to consider any measure that touched on #Trump’s involvement in the #cryptocurrency industry, & ultimately shut down the amendment process, leaving a small bipartisan group of senators to negotiate only a few changes to the bill.
Sen #ChuckSchumer said that it improved through negotiations, but criticized the absence of anti-#corruption protections, specifically those aimed at preventing #Trump & his family from continuing to #profit from #cryptocurrency, an issue that became a wedge among #Democrats as the bill made its way through the #Senate.
#Senate passage came over the fierce objections of #Democrats, who warned that the measure lacked strict-enough #regulations or #oversight to prevent abuses, including
anti-#corruption rules that would bar #Trump & his family from continuing to #profit from #cryptocurrency.
The bill still must be passed by the #House & signed by Trump. But the 68-30 vote in the Senate marked the first time the chamber has approved major cryptocurrency #legislation.
I really shouldn't be astonished, but I am 
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This is, of course, utter abuse of user data, but what's even worse is that Google allows this.
#Conversations was taken off Google Play, and forced to remove its contacts linking feature for #privacy reasons, despite the fact that no contact data was ever uploaded to any servers, yet #Citymapper is allowed to share highly sensitive precise location data with third parties for the sake of #profit?!
Goodbye Citymapper!!
Thankfully we're not exactly short of #opensource alternatives: I love how #Öffi displays the timetables, but we also have #Transportr and KDE's #KTrip (which not only works on Android but also on #mobilelinux).
#privacymatters #publictransport #surveillancecapitalism #foss
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Während die #Preise für lebensrettende #Medikamente steigen, machen #Pharmafirmen weiter #Rekordgewinne.
In den #Niederlanden zeigt sich: Mehr #Wettbewerb = deutlich niedrigere Preise.
Die #Pharmaindustrie streitet nichtmal ab, dass der #Profit enorm ist.
Mehr dazu: https://bukopharma.de/pharmabrief/pharma-brief-4-2025-trumps-zoll-und-wirtschaftspolitik-illegaler-medikamentenhandel-und-forschungskosten-im-faktencheck/niederlande-wettbewerb-laesst-preise-purzeln/
glané sur le net Archéologie préventive (France) : L'archéologie en lutte contre la loi des profits: Du 12 au 15 juin, le monde de l'archéologie va se mobiliser contre les attaques contenues dans la loi de simplification de la vie économique. Le 4 avril 2024 lors de sa visite sur le chantier de restauration du château de Dampierre (Yvelines), Rachida Dati annonçait une nouvelle législation… https://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article75299&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ArchéologiePréventive #LutteContreLaLoi #Profit #Chômage #ConditionsDeTravail
#US #healthcare is rife with #highcosts and deep #inequities, and that’s no accident – a #publichealth historian explains how the system was shaped to serve #profit and #politicians
Bidders demand #ThamesWater granted #immunity over environmental #crimes | Thames Water | The Guardian
Typical. They must not be allowed to get away with the environmental damage they have done in the pursuit of #profit at the expense of users and the #environment.
If #OpenAI & Co. make us humans increasingly superfluous because #AI takes over creativity and jobs, what are we still needed for? How are more and more people without work supposed to satisfy the #greed of #business and shareholders?
It is obvious that the concept has not been thought through and our destructive nature has been/is being ignored because the addiction to #profit and #power denies any responsibility.
Wenn #OpenAI & Co. uns Menschen immer überflüssiger macht, weil #KI Kreativität und Jobs übernimmt, wozu werden wir dann noch gebraucht? Wie sollen immer mehr Menschen ohne Arbeit die #Gier von #Wirtschaft und Aktionären befriedigen?
Es ist offensichtlich, dass das Konzept nicht durchdacht und unser destruktives Wesen außer Acht gelassen wurde/wird, weil die Sucht nach #Profit und #Macht jede Verantwortung verweigert.
The #GlobalWarming problem is not one of technology -- we know how to make #CleanEnergy. The problem is #capitalism and the control of states by capital interests. #CEOs will kill us all for #profit because that is what the system demands; if they don't do it, competitors will.
The nomination, which comes amid a whirlwind of #Trump admin actions to dismantle the government’s #PublicIntegrity [legal depts charged w/combating #political #corruption] guardrails, also has raised questions about whether Levels, a company #CaseyMeans co-founded that sells subscriptions for devices that continuously monitor users’ glucose levels, could #profit from the admin’s health guidance & policy.
A review by AP found #CaseyMeans, who has carved out a niche in the wellness industry, set up deals with an array of businesses.
In her newsletter, on her socials, on her website, in her book & during podcast appearances, the entrepreneur & #influencer has at times failed to #disclose that she could #profit or benefit in other ways from sales of products she recommends. In some cases, she promoted companies in which she was an investor or adviser without consistently disclosing the connection.…
