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Steve Thompson PhD

Dow futures tumble as the massive market sell-off continues

cnn.com/2025/04/06/business/st

US stock futures plunged Sunday evening after two sessions of sell-offsthat wiped away over $5.4 trillion in market value. Stocks were set to open sharply lower Monday, putting the S&P 500 on the precipice of a bear market — a decline of 20% from its peak and an ominous sign for investors and perhaps the broader economy.

CNN · Dow futures tumble more than 1,500 points as the massive market sell-off continuesBy Robert Ilich
#Trump#tariffs#DOW
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Steve Thompson PhD

Oh, look!

"Dow futures fall 1,500 points Sunday as Trump tariff market collapse worsens"

cnbc.com/2025/04/06/stock-mark

U.S. stock futures dropped on Sunday evening as the White House remained defiant even after a two-day historic stock market rout.

"Dow Jones Industrial average futures
fell 1,531 points, or 4.1% Sunday evening. S&P 500 futures shed 4.6%. Nasdaq-100 futures lost 5.3% as investors continued to shed their one-time tech winners to raise cash."

CNBCDow drops 1,300 points, S&P 500 enters bear territory on Trump tariff market collapse: Live updatesTrump posted on Saturday to Truth Social for people to "hang tough" and that this was an "economic revolution."
#Trump#markets#tariffs
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Tomás Criado

We warmly invite you to the "Contested Futures: Unsettling ageing, ecological, and digital transitions" workshop, organized by CareNet

March 31 - April 1, 2025 in Barcelona @ Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
(on site)

Free registration needed

+info: symposium.uoc.edu/131218/progr

Universitat Oberta de CatalunyaWorkshop: "Contested Futures: Unsettling ageing, ecological, and digital transitions"IN3’s Care and Preparedness in the Network Society (CareNet) research group is pleased to invite you to the Workshop «Contested Futures: Unsettling ageing, ecological, and digital transitions», an interdisciplinary symposia about the role of futures in research on ageing, climate crisis, and digitalisation.    On the 31st of March, we invited international STS scholars to theorise and empirically analyse the imaginaries, practices and narratives of the future in these three areas.  Helen Manchester (University of Bristol, UK), Juliane Jarke (University of Graz, Austria), Uriel Fogué (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, SP), Alex Wilkie (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK).   More about them here   On the 1st of April, we will have a hands-on and participatory workshop on future methods. This workshop is designed to foster a collaborative and speculative exploration of methods, practices and ideas on how to analyse, perform, reimagine and produce futures. Participants of this workshop are the invited international speakers and UOC scholars working on future studies.   What is this workshop about?   Ageing, climate crisis, and digitalisation are three domains deeply shaped by imaginaries, narratives, and prospective practices in which the futures of modern societies are constantly negotiated and contested.   Across these research fields, we observe a recurring invocation of potential futures – futures that have not yet materialised and remain uncertain but still are already shaping the present. These futures often appear in dystopian terms, as threats and risks: ageing, framed as a “demographic bomb” or “grey tsunami” that will overwhelm healthcare and social systems; a world becoming increasingly uninhabitable and unequal due to global warming and extreme weather; and the strangeness of artificial intelligence, as the boundaries between truth and falsehood, knowledge and ignorance, get blurred.   Public policy frames these futures as “challenges”, threats that are also presented as opportunities. They imply an obligation to transform the present in preparation for the future. Anticipating these futures acts as a call to action in the present, shaping life in advance and directing it toward specific horizons. For this reason, these “challenges” are often linked to various transitions –demographic, eco-social and digital– that require the continuous production of new knowledge and innovations.   To mitigate the so-called “demographic bomb”, policies on healthy ageing, ageing biomedicine, and gerontechnology seek to build a future in which people live longer without falling ill, maintain their independence, and defy the effects of ageing. To reconcile the climate crisis with capitalist progress, new technological solutions are emerging: space colonisation, geoengineering, urban adaptation, sustainable infrastructures, green energy. Responding to the risk of losing the ability to distinguish between truth and falsehood, between knowing and not knowing, new initiatives are being developed to promote responsible, ethical and inclusive artificial intelligence.   All of this shows how the future, far from being settled, is an object of contestation. We are concerned with how futures are not only imagined, anticipated, and enacted, but also cancelled, ignored, destroyed, and even colonised.   A space for reflection and practice   In this workshop, we invite scholars working in these three areas to explore questions such as: What futures guide research on ageing, climate change, and digitisation? To whom do these futures belong? Who is empowered to imagine, to narrate, and to generate future-oriented practices-and who is not? Which futures prevail? Which are silenced? In what ways are futures being brought into the present and presents brought into the future? By what means, by what practices, by what methods? What are the effects of power that their anticipation generates, and on whom?   We do not wish to approach these questions solely through theoretical reflection or through the empirical analysis of practices and narratives of the future — although both of these remain essential. Rather, we seek to foster an exchange of practices, methods, and techniques that enable us to think, analyse, transform, reimagine, and reconstruct futures. Thus, this is an invitation to explore the potential of participatory methods, speculative design, arts-based methodologies (visual, performative, etc.), and game-based approaches, among others. We want to create a space not only for analysing futures, but also for experimenting with and constructing new ways of imagining and inhabiting futures.
#sts#futures#methdos
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Jazmine Isa Qureshi (They/She)

Next week I'm taking queering ecologies and marine ecology to a conference in London, and then the weekend of, I'm off to Bristol to headline-poet about queer grief...the 2 have a lot of overlap as much as that seems odd: self reflection and dissection of character = possibility of reimagination... #queering #ecologies #nature #wildlife #futures #coastal #ecosystems #regeneration #systemthinking #restore #environment #trans #brown #woman

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TransitBiker

You might wonder why my user picture is a progress pride flag. It’s because I see the fear on #parents #of #queer #kids’ faces and hear it in their voices. I see the kids that just want to #exist without being chased down by mobs with torches and pitchforks literally or figuratively. I don’t have the answer to how to untangle the Gordian knot of #injustice and #hate in this country, but what I do have is the ability to stand up for these kids, these people, their #futures & their “right now’s”.

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Maja-Lee

#cfp 📢 My dear colleagues Ilia Antenucci, Armin Beverungen, @ranjodh, Randi Heinrichs and I would love to invite you to think with us through "#Urban #Speculations: #Cities, #Technologies, #Futures" on Feb 4-6 2025 in #Lüneburg!

If your work circles around forms of speculations in the urban world, tech universe or other conceptual galaxies, please join us!!🌌

End of submission is July 1, 2024. We warmly invite you to contribute and are looking forward to your take on all things speculative and spatial!

For more details, see logistical.city/conference/

Black and white sketch of a skyscraper with a glass dome. Waves of typographic arms are coming out of its facade, spelling the conference title "Urban Speculations: Cities, Technologies, Futures" as well as the name of the research project "Automating the Logistical City" and the question: "How does technological speculation shape urban futures?". The skyscraper is embedded in a smaller skyline with other glass facades and builidings looking like smart home technology. On the left hand, the buildings are coming out of an open card board box which is titled black box. Below it is a big container ship that says " automation" on it in a puddle of words. Above the skyline, still on the left, is a cloud shape bubble out of € and $ signs that surround a speaker with eyes and a CCTV camera, the speaker saying "ring ring" and sending of WiFi signals. Drones are circling the whole scenario. On the right hand side is a little park sketch with delivery robots and packages facing toward the bottom of the picture. Another little skyline with construction work is decorating the letters of the title
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