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A judge unredacted parts of a Facebook lawsuit that claims executives knew an ad metric was inflated. Executives ignored employees' request to fix it to avoid a "significant" sales hit, the suit claims. Potential reach, the metric under question, shows advertisers a possible audience size.
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"Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments" (AP)
Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments. Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan to launch so-called Innovation Zones in Nevada to jumpstart the state’s economy by attracting technology firms, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday. The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services....
How Big Tech Got Even Bigger (WSJ)
Technology giants such as Alphabet, Amazon and Apple are more dominant than a year ago thanks to a greater reliance on their services during the pandemic. The forces propelling them to new heights are expected to outlast Covid-19.
Davos: Vladimir Putin warns of US 'Big Tech' dominance (DW)
Putin's remarks came one day after he held his first phone call with Joe Biden during his tenure as US President. It is the first time that the Russian leader has spoken to the World Economic Forum since 2009.
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Pieter Hintjens (1962 - 2016) on Patents
"Patents are a medieval economic tool by which politicians attempt to stimulate trade and wealth by banning innovation and competition in crucial areas of technology"
"House prices fall and bad debt shakes the financial markets across the US and Europe. Bankers look nervously at their portfolios of consumer debt and mortgages. But some analysts say that it's patents, not houses or loans, that will tip the global financial market into crisis"
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LittleSis - a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government
We're a grassroots watchdog network connecting the dots between the world's most powerful people and organizations. An involuntary facebook of the 1%. We bring transparency to influential social networks by tracking the key relationships of politicians, business leaders, lobbyists, financiers, and their affiliated institutions.
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Pirate Bay Founder Warns US Govt. Against Mafia-Esque Copyright Lobby
“The same organizations that promise to protect artists and culture are the ones screwing them over; always fiscally (like with Hollywood Accounting), sometimes physically (Harvey Weinstein is not the first nor last one).” ... “These organizations are willingly putting our global democracy in jeopardy. The legislation brought forward by their lobbying, to protect one business model affected by the internet, is also being used for stopping people in opposition from overthrowing dictators.” ... “As long as these mafia-esque organizations are allowed free reign over the immaterial rights discourse, they will never relinquish their power nor money to the intended recipients,”
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Question: Does a majority of the people who suddenly in 2020 started to be terribly concerned with the health of themselves and especially others, actively practice a healthy lifestyle?
Question: How did giant corporate monopolies with a long track-record of promoting and exploiting illness and addiction - become widely regarded as trustworthy almost over night?
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The iPhone peaked in 2017. Apple has not had a truly original idea since 2007. Their supply chain is highly exposed to a predictably worsening china/us trade environment. Magical times ahead!
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#Comment: Those who scream "future!" the loudest, support the past the hardest. Once they are done, all left of this planet will be rubble and a few shitty robots. But the leaders of such corporations are too busy to notice, as they are having fun with their child-slavery friends.
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Theory U is a change management method and the title of a book by Otto Scharmer.The principles of Theory U are suggested to help political leaders, civil servants, and managers break through past unproductive patterns of behavior that prevent them from empathizing with their clients' perspectives and often lock them into ineffective patterns of decision making.
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Interprofessional and interdisciplinary learning
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Largest shipping company won’t take recyclables to China
Maersk on July 20 told customers it would stop shipping recovered paper, plastics and other scrap materials to China and Hong Kong. The company said the policy is being implemented “to fully comply with government requirements of the People’s Republic of China about zero solid waste import as of 2021.”
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Can capitalism be regenerative? - John Elkington & Daniel Wahl in Conversation
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The business of the Honey-Suckers in Bengaluru (India)
In the absence of a city-wide sewerage network in Bengaluru, one form of sanitation self-service that has emerged is that of the ‘honey-suckers’, which empty holding and septic tanks. Part of the faecal sludge is used productively by farmers in the fringe of Bengaluru. The honey-sucker service has emerged without any form of financial or technical assistance, but operates outside the legal framework.
