marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social

Institute for the Future, Author of Nature of the Future

[marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social @mgorbis]

This broke my heart. “Why would one of the richest men in the world commit such an act of injustice?” Halimi asked. “Sometimes I think that if Elon Musk himself were fully informed about this matter, he would likely be deeply ashamed.” Feeling shame @elonmusk @NateCavanaugh?!

[ProPublica @propublica]

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.

On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.

This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

[marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social @mgorbis]

@tran_scends stay safe! This is just heart breaking.

[marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social @mgorbis]

[e-mail] and mgorbis on threads

[marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social @mgorbis]

Why I Always Vote: my response to the irresponsible and astounding oped by Matthew Walther in the @nytimes https://t.co/sJvIclLChf

[marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social @mgorbis]

"Mathematica Research compared people who had received job training under the 1998 law, now known as the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, with a randomly selected control group. Thirty months later, the training had zero effect on earnings." https://t.co/6CIgLdYeYt

[marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social @mgorbis]

Looking forward to this!

[Institute For The Future @iftf]

Join @mgorbis and @WomenInGenAI June 28 for discussions on GenAI and The Future of Work & empowering sessions with influential women in the field of artificial intelligence. https://t.co/Y8rcatDknS

[marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social @mgorbis]

A devastating loss of an incredible human being who’s inspired so many of us at @iftf and throughout the world. Keeping that blue marble close @wallacejnichols 💔

[Santa Cruz Works @SantaCruzWorks]

Santa Cruz and the world have recently lost a profoundly influential figure, Dr. Wallace J. Nichols. Learn more about his incredible impact on environmental science and beyond. https://t.co/i00X2JAQzl

[craig newmark @craignewmark]

New from @BrennanCenter @TheElectionsGrp and @iftf: How election officials can prepare for AI threats to 2024 elections. Read and share major set of solutions, plans, and checklists for the public servants who run them ⬇️ https://t.co/Qj4WtLwjOC

[Stanford Social Innovation Review @SSIReview]

“Foresight tools can help social sector orgs become future-ready: turning them into sensing and sense-making entities.” Marina Gorbis (@mgorbis) of @iftf outlines how #foundations and #nonprofits can use futures thinking to ensure a more equitable world: https://t.co/WoOExrZhjR

[marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social @mgorbis]

@nataliefoster recommend @vanishingcorp article on shareholder capitalism as a suicide pact https://t.co/l919d2ldTB. When most of the population is invested in the stock market, social change is difficult. People who pushed for pension privatization knew that.

[marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social @mgorbis]

It’s Time to Tax the Billionaires https://t.co/FrYqZ9IqN5 Today, the superrich control a greater share of America’s wealth than during the Gilded Age of Carnegies and Rockefellers.That's partly because taxes on the wealthy have cratered.

[marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social @mgorbis]

Time--number of hours per day--is one invariable in our lives and we are remarkably consistent in how we spend it (unless we eliminate sleep, in which case all bets are off!) https://t.co/dp9382tMZP

[marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social @mgorbis]

@AnandWrites @JosephEStiglitz Karl Polanyi: Market economies create market societies.

[marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social @mgorbis]

Congratulations to a visionary, a movement maker, and one of my favorite collaborators @nataliefoster on publishing her much needed book! You can listen to my conversation with Natalie here https://t.co/yUE2jVpo90

[Institute For The Future @iftf]

What could our society be like if we guaranteed income, free public college, affordable healthcare, good work, homes, family care, and even an inheritance? You can read about what’s possible– & already happening today–in The Guarantee by @NatalieFoster. #TheGuarantee

[marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social @mgorbis]

"Capitalists don't want market economies, where they have to compete with one another, eroding their margins and profits – they want a planned economy, like Amazon, where Party Secretary Bezos and his commissars tell merchants what they can sell and tell us what we must pay" !!!

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Combine Angelou's "When someone shows you who they are, believe them" with the truism that in politics, "every accusation is a confession" and you get: "Every time someone accuses you of a vice, they're showing you who they are and you should believe them."

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[marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social @mgorbis]

@roybahat I am in the same place--extreme sense of disorientation. I think this is the only humane place to be right now, rather than in a place of certainty and self-righteousness. 💔💔💔

[Institute For The Future @iftf]

Where does the phrase “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” come from?
Listen to the full conversation between author @lisquart and IFTF Executive Director @MGorbis, about Quart’s new book “Bootstrapped,” on the Future Now podcast. https://t.co/AaB6xGbRO1

[Institute For The Future @iftf]

Nearly all work will be transformed by AI-enabled tools. IFTF's foresight research takes a close look at AI's effects in the context of Transportation, Construction, Real Estate, Insurance, Media, & Consumer Goods in Japan. Explore each deep forecast here: https://t.co/cWNFzEbFvC

[marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social @mgorbis]

"AI could create situations where workers might retain their jobs, but critical aspects of their roles that they find enjoyable or meaningful could be replaced by technology, leaving them with tasks that feel tedious or alienating." https://t.co/65iIvk75YS A must read!

[marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social @mgorbis]

"A company must be, first, a platform for human contribution if it is to be anything else at all." It shouldn't be a "corporate blender." https://t.co/r9uslWILer