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Elon Musk is attempting to expand Tesla into Sweden and circumvent its unions — but Swedish labor has a long history of taking on big US firms. If they can bring Tesla to heel, it will mark a major victory for organized labor across the globe. https://jacobin.com/2023/12/tesla-swedish-unions-nordic-elon-musk-labor-green-transition/
Narrated by Björk, and produced by K2 Studios, the movie follows Sheldrake—who has devoted his career to the remarkable and mysterious world of mycelium and mushrooms—as he embarks on a journey through the ancient Tarkine rainforest of Tasmania. Timelapse cinematography reveals up-close details of rarely seen fungal phenomena, from the dispersion of spores to vast subterranean…
The consensual fever-dream that Austin is a nice place to live and work has finally broken.
Had JSON been around when I was born in the 1970’s Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie may very well have embraced it as a recommended output format to help programs “do one thing well” in a pipeline. To that end, I argue that linux and all of its supporting GNU and non-GNU utilities should offer…
Matt Stoller breaks down the hidden lawyers behind major corporations.
This is fossil fuel key jangling … Machines to magic carbon out of the air, artificial intelligence, indoor vertical farms to grow food for our escape to Mars, and even solar-powered “responsible” yachts: the Cop28 climate summit in Dubai has been festooned with the promise of technological fixes for worsening global heating and ecological breakdown. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/10/climate-experts-warn-against-focus-technological-solutions-cop28
The granting of a licence to cultivate indigenous fungi containing psilocybin, the active compound found in psychedelic mushrooms, is the first of its kind in New Zealand and a major milestone in a Māori health science collaboration led by Rangiwaho Marae, based south of Gisborne. The licence was granted to Rua Bioscience, a biopharmaceutical business…
Tesla’s Autopilot technology has been involved in about 40 fatal and serious car crashes — including at least eight that occurred on roads with cross traffic, where the driver-assistance feature was not designed to be used, according to a Washington Post analysis. More than 800,000 vehicles have Autopilot, and federal officials have asked Tesla to limit its use…
While my Acorn Archimedes was a vastly superior computer to the Amiga, I was always very jealous about the demos that my Amiga using friends had access to. This essay investigates the gestation of the demoscene, the Amiga platform’s revolutionary beginnings, its emotional resonance within a dedicated community, and its broader influence on the field…
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