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Bytes Europe

The Dark Side Of Fast Fashion Business Models byteseu.com/882866/ #business #BusinessModels #ClimateChange #emissions #EnvironmentalImpact #FastFashion #Microplastics #Pollution #Shein #Waste #zara

Bytes Europe · The Dark Side Of Fast Fashion Business ModelsFast fashiongetty Fast fashion has revolutionized the apparel industry, making trendy clothing more affordable and accessible than ever. However, this business model comes at an enormous cost. According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the fashion industry produces over 92 million tons of textile waste annually, with fast fashion contributing significantly to this staggering figure. As brands like Zara, H&M, Temu and Shein continue to push rapid production cycles, the environmental and human costs are mounting at an unsustainable rate. This is the first article in the Fashion and Sustainability series. To gain expert insight into the current state of the
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Ecologia Digital

#DigitalSovereignity: "The real power move for #creators is #ownership and control of their work and livelihoods. This freedom is actually closer for more people than ever before! Learn from two #fediverse futurists [@molly0xfff & @mike] how #decentralizedsocialmedia facilitates #betterpublishing, #community, and #businessmodels.
Speakers will cover where creators should focus their energies, and how they might thrive with or without #walledgarden social platforms."
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SXSW 2025 ScheduleDigital Sovereignty Is the New Influencer StatusSXSW 2025 Schedule | The real power move for creators is ownership and control of their work and livelihoods. This freedom is actually closer for more people than ever before! Learn from two fediverse futurists how decentralized social media facilitates better publishing, community, and business models. These speakers will cover the theoretical and the practical, including how the landscape is evolving in 2025, where creators should focus their energies, and how they might thrive with or without “walled garden” s...
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Mix Mistress Alice💄

@broadwaybabyto Thank you,
> "because they’re an easy mark." and because no one (specially not cishet men) would dare defend trans folks (specially not trans women), too worried about what others may think (that they are gay?) if they would (so brave of you cishet men!).

Now they can talk about 'having balls'.

Transphobia serve pusillanimous politicians with an easy scapegoat almost no-one will defend but also; as Spanish politician Carla Antonelli recently pointed out:
transphobia -is- a business.

A business model for previously unknown 'essayists' to gain wider access to publishing/medias and to profit from (TERF/'gender critical') books selling.
She reminds folks that -all- of these transphobia fostering 'essayists' -do not- care about children, only their own wallets.

So remember: transphobia -is- a business.

For reference, here is Carla Antonelli recent interview (you may need to enable subtitles if you're a monoglot) >

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Todon.euMix Mistress Alice💄 (@MixMistressAlice@todon.eu)"Ayme Roman‬ conversa con Carla Antonelli, primera mujer trans senadora en España y quien también fue la primera diputada trans en el Congreso, sobre los retos y violencias que entraña hacerse visible en un mundo sin referentes, así como sobre el estigma social, la transfobia mediática que toma dudas legítimas y las transforma en pánico moral, y la discriminación laboral que condena a muchas mujeres trans al sistema prostituyente. Hablan de los acalorados debates que se han producido alrededor de la Ley Trans, de los fraudes de ley de figuras como Roma Gallardo, así como de por qué Antonelli optó por Más Madrid y no por la formación de Irene Montero. Además, Carla y Ayme hablan de la injusticia de exigirles a las personas trans un “passing” perfecto (ser invisibles) para ser socialmente aceptadas al mismo tiempo que se condena la transición hormonal y quirúrgica. Carla también reflexiona sobre el reciente viraje conservador del PSOE respecto a las políticas sociales en materia de derechos trans, señalando que algunos han encontrado en la “crítica a lo trans” un nicho de mercado."—FurorTV https://youtu.be/WoTabeXrkHc?feature=shared #CarlaAntonelli #España #entrevista #transición #ITQBLG #retrocesos #injusticia #derechos #PSOE #PersonasTrans #LeyTrans #MásMadrid #invisibilidad #politica #retrocesos
#transphobia#hatred#fear
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Usman Naeem

Software based innovation is a sloppy, lazyway towards innovation. Learn form Apple's example, they used hardware and their 'made for ipad' and dongle accessories extension to drive real innovation & technological advancement. Software upgrades and addons and customizations are sad excuse to innovate.

Don't fall into the delusion that interfaces and UX through software is progress.

#UX#HardwareDesign#Innovation
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Walled Culture

India spends $715 million on academic journals, but with the wrong kind of open access

Numerous articles here on Walled Culture have chronicled the struggles to turn the aspirations of open access to knowledge into reality. The central reason people do not have free digital access to all academic knowledge is that publishers have been successful in subverting attempts to provide it. Publishers are strongly motivated to undermine open access, since its successful implementation […]

#apcs #businessModels #diamondOa #funders #gatesFoundation #goldOa #grants #india #openAccess #plos #profits

walledculture.org/india-spends

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"This report set out to investigate and elucidate the business models behind the generative AI companies that are drawing hundreds of billions of dollars in investment. Such models have pushed companies like Nvidia, which supplies the chips necessary for AI computation, to double and then triple its $418 billion valuation in 2022 to a historic market capitalization in excess of $3 trillion in 2024.4 It soon became clear that understanding the composition of those business models meant understanding the deployment and evolution of the concept of “AGI” as a lodestar for generative AI companies.

Any effort to understand OpenAI’s business model and that of its emulators, peers, and competitors must thus begin with the understanding that they have been developed rapidly, even haphazardly, and out of necessity, to capitalize on the popularity of generative AI products, to fund growing compute costs, and to pacify a growing portfolio of investors and stakeholders. Equally crucial is understanding how “AGI” operates in a material context, and how it serves as a driver of continued investment and enterprise sales, a marketing and recruitment tool, and a framework for bolstering the company’s influence and cultural footprint.

That OpenAI had no discernible business model upon its inception does not mean that profit potential wasn’t a consideration from the beginning. While the headlines announcing OpenAI’s launch reliably painted the project as Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s humanitarian effort to protect the world from a malignant, superpowerful AI, it was from the start a densely corporatized undertaking, established in a posh hotel in the middle of Silicon Valley with seed money from tech billionaires, Amazon, and top venture capitalists—despite being labeled a “nonprofit.”"

ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-

AI Now Institute · AI Generated Business: The Rise of AGI and the Rush to Find a Working Revenue ModelBy Brian Merchant In This Article Introduction OpenAI and the Generative AI Boom Silicon Valley Mythology, Distilled and Accelerated From “Safe AI” to AGI — and the Hype-Led Business Model Genesis Marketing AGI, Shipping Commercial AI The Dream of AGI and the Fully Automated Organization Acknowledgments Download the full report here INTRODUCTION In the spring of […]
#AI#GenerativeAI#OpenAI
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