marina gorbis

@mgorbis

Institute for the Future, Author of Nature of the Future

Palo Alto
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Joined August 2008
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  1. 3 hours ago

    Many are just learning or waking up to the global infrastructure of crime and corruption. has been at it for close to two decades. Glad the world is catching up!

    BREAKING: OCCRP and partners have uncovered dozens of assets tied to Russia’s ruling class. And this is just the beginning. We'll continue to identify and catalog their yachts, mansions, and other ill-gotten gains here, in 🔍
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    6 hours ago

    has convinced much of society that STEM paves the road to the future. Now society must convince Silicon Valley that their inventions would be more useful if they became students of sociology, psychology, history, economics, & the humanities.

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  3. 20 hours ago

    London: "a no-questions-asked service provider to the crooked élite, offering access to capital markets, prime real estate, shopping at Harrods, illustrious private schools, along with accountants for tax tricks, attorneys for legal squabbles, and “reputation managers”

    In recent weeks, some have worried that dirty money is so woven into the fabric of British life that, as one parliamentary report from 2020 suggests, it “cannot be untangled.”
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    Mar 20

    UPCOMING: Few are better at obscuring their ill-gotten gains than Russia’s ruling class. Assets seized thus far represent only a fraction of their true wealth. So OCCRP, , and 25 other media outlets have teamed up to hunt down the rest.

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    Mar 19

    "A friend of mine works at one of the biggest business schools. I told him: Everything you are teaching is useless. Just as teaching socialism studies was in 1990. The world of globalization and free trade [...] will be over." Krastev, as astute as ever:

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    Mar 18

    “Ethereum has made a handful of white men unfathomably rich, pumped pollutants into the air, and emerged as a vehicle for tax evasion, money laundering, and mind-boggling scams.”

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    Mar 17

    Learn about this new Cooperative Academy for drivers!

    Ready to build driver-owned rideshare in your city? Join The Drivers Cooperative Academy! We're taking on the gig economy exploitation with the power of COOPERATION and FEDERATION 🤝🌎 Enroll here:
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  8. Mar 17

    Meet our new cohort of Fellows!

    Our latest Equitable Enterprise newsletter is out today! Learn about our new Future for Good Fellows, see what we're reading and more. Read ➡️
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  9. Mar 16

    "autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, security services (military, police, paramilitary groups, surveillance personnel), and professional propagandists."

    Anne Applebaum:’America Needs a Better Plan to Fight Autocracy’: By enabling Putin and other global kleptocrats, the West undermined democracy. It’s time to change tactics.
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  10. Mar 15

    Thank you for sharing your work. Your book was an eye-opener for me and hopefully for many others.

    I really enjoyed talking about the Universal Fund model and the Wireless Corporate Governance model in a Deep Dive Conversation for the . Thank you for inviting me to present an important part of my work
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  11. Mar 14

    The Download: Russia is spreading misinformation about chemical weapons in Ukraine & helping them.

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  12. Mar 11

    The Weakness of the Despot "Russia feels that it has a “special place” in the world, a special mission. It’s Eastern Orthodox, not Western. Its problem has always been the fact that its capabilities have never matched its aspirations."

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    Mar 9

    The invasion of Ukraine has brought the world's attention to a community that OCCRP has investigated for years: the Russian oligarchy. These Putin allies have amassed massive levels of wealth — often at the expense of Russian citizens. Here are a few examples we've uncovered 👇

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  14. Mar 9

    New Yorkers With Marijuana Convictions Will Get First Retail Licenses. Interesting way of making reparations (of a kind).

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  15. Mar 8

    "The snow is melting. Spring is coming." Slava Ukrainii! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

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    Zelenskyy sending a clear message: He ain’t leaving. After posting a defiant video from his office last night, the Ukrainian president is in the streets of Kyiv this morning welcoming the start of spring.
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  16. Mar 6

    Parallels with trying to talk to MAGA relatives. Great reporting !

    Across Ukraine, I have been meeting people w close relatives in Russia who refuse to believe the extent of the violence their state is perpetrating. Cities suffer missile attacks, mothers fear for sons, but fathers, sisters, brothers respond w denial. 🧵
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  17. Mar 5

    A must read from ⁦⁩ if you want to better understand what is happening in Ukraine. Written in 2019 it is prescient.

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  18. Mar 4

    The Devastating Effects of Losing the Child Tax Credit via In the absence of the monthly cash payments guaranteed by the expanded credit, about 3.7 million more American children are living in poverty.

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  19. Mar 2

    Just something else to add, in case the pandemic, climate crisis, and WWIII are not enough...

    A massive quake could strike the San Francisco Bay area at any moment. When it does, the city will never be the same. And scientists are preparing.
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    Mar 1

    Philanthropy can play a role and not just with better-trained workers; worker-owned cooperative businesses and community trusts are promising models. Last year, grantee launched a new Equitable Enterprise Initiative to pursue equitable, just and inclusive economy

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