TikTok overtakes Facebook as world's most downloaded app
tag > Technology
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Price of Portable Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Devices
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Electronics systems as percent of total car cost
And yet cars keep getting bigger and bigger - dumber and dumber...
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Today in "the fall of western civilization": Amazon will pay you $10 in credit for your palm print biometrics
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Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real
Google's quantum computing team in collaboration with physicists say they have demonstrated a genuine time crystal for the first time. Like a perpetual motion machine, a time crystal forever cycles between states without consuming energy. Physicists claim to have built this new phase of matter inside a quantum computer.
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It's the Hottest Job Market in 20 Years for Tech Workers (bostonherald.com)
There's an air of desperation among tech employers this summer. Software talent, it seems, is in such high demand that companies are morphing how they hire. And workers are the ones with the power. Good and experienced tech workers are being treated like local celebrities — hounded by recruiters, courted by managers and bestowed a bevy of options before choosing their next boss. [...] A tidal wave of productivity software flooded the world. Simultaneously, remote work became the status quo in the tech industry. Suddenly, software talent could pick and choose from a massive pool of job opportunities...
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The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (IEEE Specturm)
"In carefully crafting a lightbulb with a relatively short life span, the cartel thus hatched the industrial strategy now known as planned obsolescence."
Today's Big Tech are the masters of planned obsolesence - and many celebrates them for it...
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Detail of “Sickened by Corporate Parasites,” Darryl Brown, Digital, October 2020.
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Something is deeply wrong with how humans relate to nature
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Today in "the fall of western civilization": Meditation Apps
Many of the "successful" western meditation mobile apps promote their service using images of beautiful young people with their smart phones in their hands and wireless headphones in their ears, while gently smiling and pretending to be casually "meditating" in their designer living rooms or offices. This is late capitalist bullshit at its finest - Namaste! (image source)
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Extreme weather takes climate change models ‘off the scale’ (FT)
Impressions of extreme weather events in July 2021 from around the world “Chinese authorities said the volumes of torrential rain that drenched central China’s Henan province last week - Zhengzhou saw 20cm of water fall in a single hour - had exceeded anything on record for the past 5,000 y.”
"And in Russia, a state of emergency has been declared in Yakutia in the Far East, where authorities are creating artificial rain by seeding clouds with silver iodine in an attempt to put out more than 200 fires.
Related:
☁️ It's so hot in Dubai that the government is artificially creating rainstorms ☁️ Master of weather? China in drive to advance rain-making tech ☁️ China Is Launching Weather-Control Machines Across An Area The Size Of Alaska ☁️ "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025"—U.S. Air Force -
Shutdown
In summary, significant parts of the dominate infrastructure stack (e.g. the Internet) will go offline for a bit in the foreseeable future. The alternative would be far more devastating. Prepare accordingly and enjoy the silence.
