The SaaS era was defined by unbundling: find a workflow, optimize it, own it.
作者提出了一个令人惊讶的产业周期观察:SaaS时代以专业化解绑为特征,而AI时代却重新走向整合,这种反向转变反映了技术成熟度和市场需求的根本性变化。
The SaaS era was defined by unbundling: find a workflow, optimize it, own it.
作者提出了一个令人惊讶的产业周期观察:SaaS时代以专业化解绑为特征,而AI时代却重新走向整合,这种反向转变反映了技术成熟度和市场需求的根本性变化。
Academic publishers, documentary archives, game studios, and companies sitting on years of enterprise data have all been courted for the seeds of intelligence needed to train the next generation of models.
AI训练数据市场的扩张正在重塑多个传统行业的价值定位,从学术出版到游戏工作室,各种看似不相关的数据源都可能成为AI训练的'智能种子'。这种跨行业数据融合正在创造新的商业机会和市场动态。
We are also unlocking a new capability: instrument reading, enabling robots to read complex gauges and sight glasses — a use case we discovered through close collaboration with our partner, Boston Dynamics.
这一令人惊讶的突破展示了AI如何从实际工业需求中汲取灵感。仪表读能能力不仅是技术上的进步,更代表了AI开始理解人类专业领域的复杂任务。与Boston Dynamics的合作表明,前沿AI研究正日益与实际应用场景紧密结合,这种产学研融合模式可能加速机器人技术在现实世界中的普及。
I just hope the industry doesn't abandon the Model Context Protocol. The dream of seamless AI integration relies on standardized interfaces, not a fractured landscape of hacky CLIs.
这是一个关于行业方向的深刻担忧。作者暗示了一个令人不安的趋势:行业可能过早放弃MCP这一标准化接口,转而采用碎片化的CLI方案。这不仅会导致用户体验下降,还可能阻碍AI与服务的无缝集成,影响整个生态系统的发展。
**Coding, support, and search**represent the lion's share of use cases by far (with coding being an order-of-magnitude outlier even among this set), while the**tech, legal, and healthcare sectors** have been the industries most eager to adopt AI.
AI在企业中的采用呈现出明显的行业和应用场景集中现象。编程辅助工具以数量级优势领先,这反映了AI在结构化、可验证任务上的卓越表现。同时,法律和医疗等传统上技术采用较慢的行业也表现出对AI的强烈兴趣,表明AI正在改变不同行业的技术采用模式。
Legal was surprisingly one of the first-mover industries in AI. Legal was historically known to be a difficult market for software, with lengthy timelines and a less tech-forward buyer.
令人惊讶的是:法律行业,这个历史上以采用新技术缓慢著称的领域,竟然成为AI的早期采用者之一。AI能够处理密集文本、推理大量信息并总结和起草回应,这些能力恰好满足了律师的日常工作需求,使得法律行业在AI应用上实现了惊人的转型。
Apple acts as a gatekeeper for big companies like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic.
令人惊讶的是:苹果公司通常被视为科技行业的创新者,但这里揭示它实际上扮演着行业守门人的角色,控制着像OpenAI、Google和Anthropic这样的大型科技公司进入市场的通道,这表明科技巨头之间的权力结构比表面看起来更为复杂。
It's Anthropic's marketing week
令人惊讶的是:这条推文是在Anthropic的营销周发布的,暗示这种高成本的AI安全服务可能更多是营销策略而非实际可行的商业模式,反映了AI行业中的过度营销现象。
Anthropic is donating $100 million in access credits for organizations to audit their systems. Project Glasswing aims to patch these vulnerabilities before Mythos-caliber models become available to the general public — and hence to malicious actors.
令人惊讶的是:Anthropic投入1亿美元用于组织审计系统,这反映了公司对AI模型可能带来的安全威胁的严重担忧,同时也表明AI安全已成为科技巨头们需要共同面对的挑战。
The industry is currently witnessing a decisive shift toward more permissive, standardized licenses as developers increasingly prioritize ease of integration and legal certainty.
令人惊讶的是:AI行业正经历向更宽松、标准化许可证的明显转变,这反映了开发者日益重视集成便利性和法律确定性。这一趋势表明,随着AI模型的成熟,许可证选择正成为与模型性能同等重要的因素,改变了AI开发的格局。
Many AI labs (including OpenAI and Anthropic) largely depend on these hyperscalers for access to R&D and inference compute.
令人惊讶的是:即使是像OpenAI和Anthropic这样的领先AI实验室也在很大程度上依赖这些超大规模云服务提供商,这揭示了AI产业中一种看似矛盾的现象——最前沿的AI创新却受制于少数几家科技巨头。
The launch shows Meta is increasingly betting that efficiency, product integration, and distribution, not just model size, will define the next phase of competition in AI.
这揭示了AI行业正在从单纯追求更大模型转向更注重实用性和集成度的重要转变。Meta的战略表明,未来AI竞争的关键可能不是模型规模,而是如何将AI无缝集成到现有产品中并提高效率。这种转变可能会重塑整个AI行业的发展方向和投资重点。
tobacco industry-funded youth prevention campaigns had minimal impact on youth smoking becausethey avoided the most powerful anti-tobacco themes of health effects and industry manipulation.
The 2008 review found that tobacco industry youth prevention campaigns could actually undermine tobacco control efforts because they improved the tobacco industry’s public image
Notably, when asked how they overcame these barriers, themost common response was communication (18%), which serves as a reminderthat bridging institutional employer priorities may not be as difficult or expen-sive as one might think.
Communicate with employer partners to overcome barriers in partnering with them. [Like most best practices: "duh"]
China’s automotive success is biting into Germany more than anywhere else. I keep a scrapbook filled with mournful remarks that German executives offer to newspapers. “Most of what German Mittelstand firms do these days, Chinese companies can do just as well,” said a consultant to the Financial Times. “In my sector they look at the price-point of the market leader and sell for roughly half of that,” the boss of a medical devicemaker told the Economist. It’s never hard to find parades of gloomy Germans. Now more than ever it looks like their core competences are threatened by Chinese firms.
I see this too. But it's a weird paragraph. Yes the automotive industry is behaving like dinosaurs in Germany, but the two examples (Mittelstand is not the automotive industry, and a medical device maker) don't connect to the rest.
Through evidence of skill competency, micro-credentials have the potential to reset educational programs, trigger changes to the academic culture, and strengthen the relationship between educational institutions and industries
Great quote on the potential with industry partnerships in particular
Probably the biggest hindrance to literate program today is that no one cares about preserving knowledge. Silicon Valley tech-bros don’t care about the humanities and believe that knowledge could never be lost (and, even if knowledge were lost, who cares anyways?).
Het plan van de Europese Unie ter waarde van 20 miljard euro om AI-gigafabrieken op te richten voor het opleiden van toonaangevende AI-modellen wordt geconfronteerd met aanzienlijke kritiek van branchegroepen met betrekking tot het doel en de financiële levensvatbaarheid ervan .
Hoewel de EU ernaar streeft haar AI-capaciteiten te versterken door middel van gigafabrieken, vragen belanghebbenden uit de sector over het algemeen om een meer gedefinieerde strategie, duidelijkere businesscases en meer overleg om het succes en de financiële levensvatbaarheid van het initiatief op lange termijn te waarborgen in een snel evoluerend en concurrerend wereldwijd AI-landschap.
Introduction: AI is now recently everywhere but we still need humans
The most effective approach to achieve these outcomes? Interdisciplinary models that embed skills flexibly across curriculum, that engage learners as part of networks, teams, and exploration, and that embed applied experiences in real-world contexts
Important to observe here: none of these things are simple and they require ecosystem thinking. Embedding skills takes faculty, learning designers, CTL-types to train and. support faculty, and industry and edu associations to articulate the skills that need embedding. Applied opportunities require industry partners to create the opportunities, co-design them, and run them well...not to mention the HE side of coordinating between the partnership shop, career services, advising, and faculty.
Northeastern University President Joseph Aoun outlines as essential literacies in Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. In addition to technical and data literacies, he shares two key components of human literacy. First, a set of “catalytic capacities” that include: Initiative and self-reliance Comfort with risk Flexibility and adaptability Second, a set of “creative capacities” that include: Opportunity recognition, or the ability to see and experience problems as opportunities to create solutions Creative innovation, or the ability to create solutions without clearly defined structures Future innovation, or the disposition to orient toward future developments in society
These "capacities" are a blueprint for how HE can notice, name, and credential the stuff that actually matters.
Don’t Do More Chickens, Do Moreto Chicken,” prioritizing further processing over higher rates of production
Shift from selling whole birds to value-added processed products. Demonstrates industrial capitalism’s logic: transform raw goods for higher profit Chicken Nuggets represent value-added capitalist strategies.
he roleof the family-size poultry producer has been reduced to ‘a cheap hired handwith a large investment
Reflects how agribusinesses shifted risk to small farmers while consolidating profits.
Rationing of red meat during the Second World War had increased demandfor poultry
WWII meat rationing shifted American meat preferences. Set the foundation for chicken’s post-war rise; shows war's long-term domestic effects.
Reilly’s roleas home economist was less a blue-collar job than a highly professionalizedposition for educated women at a time when many women were deniedprofessional status.
Expansion of middle-class white women's roles into food-related professions Reflects how 1950s American culture confined women's professional opportunities to consumer-oriented domestic fields.
operated by “hundredsof Austin girls”—that ensured food safety
Spam produced by female workers Reflect shifting in gender roles, increase presence of women in industrial labors
Jay Hormel turnedto pork shoulder, a cut of meat that was routinely wasted in the butcheringprocess
Spam made use of cheap and discarded meat reflected Depression-era frugality; made meat more accessible to lower-income populations
the orchard men prefer “the Chinamen because heis their slave
Reveals blatant exploitation and racism toward Chinese workers, who were later excluded by law
“The Powell Method reformed the bodies of workers, so thattheir motions in the groves and in the packing houses would more efficientlypreserve the perfect bodies of oranges.”
Reflects how workers’ physical movements were controlled to maximize fruit quality, showing labor as mechanized and disciplined.
The labor of orange picking andpacking was especially regulated
But as Italian restaurants rose in big cities,staffed by immigrant labor, they standardized this version of Italian cuisine.
Spaghettigave rise to immigrant food businesses—import companies, pasta factories,and restaurants.
companies with external partnerships that provide employee training or professional development increased from 54% in 2022 to 68% in 2023, and among those without existing relationships, 61% of companies would be interested in developing these partnerships.
Most companies have external partnerships for employee training and the majority of those that do not would be interested in having them.
Total global 240GHG emissions were 55.1± 5.1 GtCO2e in 2023. Of this total, CO2-FFI contributed 37.8 ± 3.0 GtCO2, CO2-LULUCF 241contributed 3.6 ± 2.5 GtCO2, CH4contributed 9.2 ± 2.7 GtCO2e, N2O contributed 2.9 ± 1.7 GtCO2e and F-gas 242emissions contributed 1.6 ± 0.5 GtCO2e.
The city's elite was forced to acknowledge the poor as equals, and the government recognized the need to treat the comuneros (community leaders) with respect and give them responsibilities and opportunities.
The city's traditional industries declined, leading to economic dislocation among the poor. Many rural migrants settled on precarious slopes, leading to a high level of illegal housing settlements. The distribution of income in Medellín became increasingly unequal, with the wealthy elite holding a disproportionate amount of power and wealth.
Pablo Escobar, became cultural icons, and their extravagant lifestyles fascinated many.
new era of violence, conspicuous consumption, and social change emerged.
Beauty queens who might have expected to make a brilliant match with a businessman or politician instead became molls and mistresses of drug lords.
Beggars disappeared from the streets, and petty thievery declined as unemployed youth found work in the drug syndicate.
Ein von 1000 Wissenschaftler:innen unterzeichnetes Papier, das sich für den Konsum vom Fleisch ausspricht, ist das Ergebnis einer PR- und Lobbying-Aktion der Fleischindustrie. Es diente der Beeinflussung der EU-Kommission. Der EU-Agrarkommissar übernahm die Argumentation. Offenbar ist es mit Hilfe der sogenannten Dublin Declaration, die von Fachleuten als wenig qualitätvoll beurteilt wird, gelungen, die EU-Kommission von ihrer ursprünglichen Absicht, Einschränkungen bei der Fleisch- und Milchproduktion zu vertreten, abzubringen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/27/revealed-industry-figures-declaration-scientists-backing-meat-eating
for - article - Techradar - Top AI researcher says AI will end humanity and we should stop developing it now — but don't worry, Elon Musk disagrees - 2024, April 7 - AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy disagrees with industry leaders and claims 99.999999% chance that AGI will destroy and embed humanity // - comment - another article whose heading is backwards - it was Musk who spoke it first, then AI safety expert Roman Yampolskiy commented on Musk's claim afterwards!
The current system of production is based on mass production, and requires the constant creation of new desires and needs, which need to be created through advertising, and require massive forms of potentially unnecessary material production
for - addendum - add ecological footprint of advertising industry to material waste generated by consumer culture - from Substack article - The Cosmo-Local Plan for our Next Civilization - Michel Bauwens - 2024, Dec 20
addendum - add ecological footprint of advertising industry to material waste generated by consumer culture - The advertising industry itself has a huge ecological footprint as well, in addition to the extra, unneeded material that planned obsolescence creates - references to be added
philanthropy, if we take it as a sector or an industry or as a biome, as we say in the book, it's a massive, massive sector. It's about $2.2 trillion. So it's equivalent to the GDP of Canada, a G7 country. It would be one of the top ten, maybe top eight industries in the world. And it's completely excluded, very little transparency, labyrinth rules and systems, opaque and almost no public discourse about it.
for - stats - philanthropy - possibly the world's 8th largest industry - with little transparency - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023
The potential for cuts in 2030 is 31 gigatons of CO2 equivalent – which isaround 52 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2023 – and 41gigatons in 2035.· Increased deployment of solar photovoltaic technologies and wind energy coulddeliver 27 per cent of this total emission reduction potential in 2030 and 38 percent in 2035.· Action on forests could deliver around 20 per cent of the potential in both years.• Other strong options include efficiency measures, electrification and fuelswitching in the buildings, transport and industry sectors.
for - stats - 27% of the gap can be reduced by wind and solar deployment and 20% by action on forests, while efficiency, electrification, fuel switching in buildings, transport and industry sectors can also contribute - UN Emissions Gap Report 2024 - Key Messages
Desmond, Matthew. Poverty, by America. 1st ed. New York: Crown, 2023. https://amzn.to/40Aqzlp
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the rulers are no longer Kings presidents or prime ministers but the market economy for the B this is the first time that the ruler is an economic agent instead of a political one
for - adjacency - the largest companies in the world have more capital than many countries - the society of the spectacle - lobby industry
adjacency - between - the largest multi-national companies in the world have more capital than many countries - the society of the spectacle - adjacency relationship - It is a well publicized fact that the world's largest multi-national companies have more capital than many countries - This fact is a prime example of the conclusions of the society of the spectacle, - Governments are coopted to serve the needs of the multi-nationals through corporate lobbyists - In fact, multi-national corporations are called "multi-national" precisely because they are so large that they exceed the boundaries of nation states, they are LARGER than nation states - Advertising, movies and products all flow trans-nationally across political boundaries - Military weapons developed by the military industrial complex and sold to nation states make modern warefare between them exponentially more harmful - In the end, the elites within such corporations benefit from the most from the consumption - The diversion is towards maximizing their profits at the expense of all else: - people - the environment - life on earth
Die Fossilindustrie finanziert seit Jahrzehten Universitäten und fördert damit Publikationen in ihrem Interesse, z.B. zu false solutions wie #CCS. Hintergrundbericht anlässlich einer neuen Studie: https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/05/universities-fossil-fuel-funding-green-energy
Studie: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.904
whichecosystem services are most relevant for the re/insurance industry – for risk assessment,underwriting and investment allocation? Figure 1 shows those services we identified as mostrelevant to re/insurance
for - biodiversity ecosystem services - most relevant for insurance industry
biodiversity ecosystem services - most relevant for insurance industry - Intact habitat - respiratory disease claims are one of the key driver of insurance claims worldwide. Intact forests are a key air purifier - Pollination - stats - global annual economic cost of insect pollinators - 235 to 577 billion USD - OECD 2019 - Air quality and local climate - (see above) - Water security - Water quality - Soil fertility - Erosion control - coastal / river-bordering forests / mangroves provide key erosion protection. - roots build a natural bulwark against waves and can store water during heavy rainfall - where forests (and mangroves) have disappeared, landslides and storm surges are more common and can move further inland, causing property losses covered by insurance - Coastal protection - (see above) - Food provision - Timber provision
question - valuable ecosystem services identified for insurance industry - what about minerals?
for - planetary emergency - economic cost of nature - from an insurance perspective - natural capital valuation - from insurance industry perspective - biodiversity - natural capital valuation - from insurance industry perspective - Swiss RE - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BES) metric - from insurance industry perspective
for - AI - inside industry predictions to 2034 - Leopold Aschenbrenner - inside information on disruptive Generative AI to 2034
document description - Situational Awareness - The Decade Ahead - author - Leopold Aschenbrenner
summary - Leopold Aschenbrenner is an ex-employee of OpenAI and reveals the insider information of the disruptive plans for AI in the next decade, that pose an existential threat to create a truly dystopian world if we continue going down our BAU trajectory. - The A.I. arms race can end in disaster. The mason threat of A.I. is that humans are fallible and even one bad actor with access to support intelligent A.I. can post an existential threat to everyone - A.I. threat is amplifier by allowing itt to control important processes - and when it is exploited by the military industrial complex, the threat escalates significantly
these conversations are having daily people are scrambling trying to like we're trying to keep up 00:07:32 with AI in real time scrambling to find out what we're going to do think about all the different businesses that are affected from this
for - AI Disruption - Realtime - music industry is scrambling
economic tsunami is just that Russian gas and oil that's the 00:33:08 foundation of Russian economy the bread makers and you take those away and then what is left Russia doesn't produce anything
for - adjacency - geopolitics - Russia Ukraine war - oil and gas industry destruction leading to economic collapse
adjacency - between - geopolitics - Russia Ukraine War - Oil & Gas industry - Economic collapse - drone attacks on oil refineries - adjacency relationship - Konstantin' insider news is that the economic collapse is beginning due to the significant damage that the oil & gas refinery infrastructure has been damaged by effective Ukrainian drone attacks and the Western sanctions
for - wicked problems - synthentic opiods coming to EU faster due to successful Taliban war on poppy industry
summary - the new synthetic opiod "Nitazene" is being manufactured in China and replaces the banned fentanyl. It is 300x stronger than heroin. - Due to the Taliban's successful war on drugs that has stamped out 95% of the poppy production, EU drug addicts are turning to the far more deadly nitazine
from - youtube - BBC - Inside the Taliban's war on Drugs - https://hyp.is/hKPiKBYbEe-2ZCPwUTz0Lg/docdrop.org/video/W-gMRFEZOGY/
the whole world is affected by it opium ferret from Afghan Fields produces nearly all of the heroines sold in Europe how will prices be impacted
for - question - how will the Taliban's successful destruction of the poppy industry affect drug supplies in Europe?
to - youtube - Vice - The new fentanyl killing drug users in Europe - https://hyp.is/MDez0BYcEe-rq0sJ-I6FRg/docdrop.org/video/JqqfI-bIvnI/
Eine Studie von Greenpeace unter dem Titel "The Dirty Dozen" zeigt, dass die europäischen Fossil-Konzerne ihre enormen Gewinne weiterhin vor allem in fossile Energien investieren. Nur 7,3% ihrer Investitionen flossen 2022 in erneuerbare Energien. Nur 0,3% der von ihnen produzierten Energie stammte aus erneuerbaren Quellen.
Französische Versicherungsgesellschaften haben für die Schäden, die extremwetterereignisse im vergangenen Jahr verursacht haben, 6,5 Milliarden Euro ausgegeben. Die globale Erhitzung ist für einen großen Teil dieser Summe mit verantwortlich. Ein neuer, auch für die Regierung erstellter Bericht analysiert die Veränderungen für die Versicherungswirtschaft durch die verschärfte ökologische Situation. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/catastrophes-naturelles-a-repetition-un-rapport-pour-lutter-contre-les-possibles-deserts-assurantiels-dans-les-zones-a-risques-20240402_6ZTTTPV6JFGBZIZ3DOZITYS6QA/
Die französischen Obstbauern müssen ihre Produktion an die globale Erhitzung anpassen. Im Süden werden zunehmend Mandeln, Pistazien und Cashewnüsse angebaut. Dabei muss verhindert werden, dass durch zu viel industrielle Landwirtschaft die Ökosysteme weiter geschädigt werden. Der Agroökonom Serge Zaka fordert ein stärkeres Engagement des Staats bei der Umstellung und weist darauf hin, dass jetzt Entscheidungen getroffen werden, die die "weltweite Geopolitik der Ernährung" 2050 bestimmen werden.
Asset Manager großer Investment Fonds, darunter BlackRock, benutzen sogenannte Öko-Fonds mit ESG-Siegel für massive Investitionen in fossile Unternehmen. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/02/green-investment-funds-pushing-money-into-fossil-fuel-firms-research-finds
Das neueste Kohlekraftwerk in Bangladesch musste kurz nach seiner Eröffnung bereits zweimal stillgelegt werden, weil Bangladesch nicht über die Devisenreserven verfügte, um die nötige Kohle aus Indonesien zu importieren. Die New York Times stellt ausgehend von diesem Beispiel die zunehmenden wirtschaftlichen Schwierigkeiten wegen der Kosten der Köhleenergie dar. Im Augenblick ist China das einzige größere asiatische Land, das massiv Kohlekraftwerke ausbaut. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/climate/coal-electricity-bangladesh.html
In den USA führen wachsende Datencenter, die u.a. durch die Industriepolitik steigende Produktion in Fabriken und immer mehr Elektrofahrzeuge zu einem steilen Anstieg des Bedarfs nach Elektrizität. Der zusätzliche Verbrauch wird in fünf Jahren etwa dem jetzigen Kaliforniens entsprechen. Die bestehenden Klimaziele werden dadurch gefährdet. Viele neue Gaskraftwerke werden bereits projektiert, unter anderem, weil die Regulierungen fossile Energien begünstigen. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/13/climate/electric-power-climate-change.html
Staaten, die von der Viehwirtschaft abhängig sind, haben über Jahre großen Druck auf die FAO ausgeübt, Forschungsergebnisse zu den Methanemissionen durch Vieh zurückzuhalten. Wichtige Berichte wurden nicht publiziert. Wahrscheinlich wurde auch das volle Ausmaß der Treibhausgasemissionen durch die Viehzucht bewusst nicht dargestellt. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/20/ex-officials-at-un-farming-fao-say-work-on-methane-emissions-was-censored
Livestock's Long Shadow: https://www.fao.org/3/a0701e/a0701e.pdf
for - deep geothermal - Quaise Energy - Paul Woskov - adjacency - deep geothermal - gyrotron - microwave energy - drilling - use oil & gas industry drilling expertise - rehabilitate old mines
summary - see adjacency statement below
adjacency - between - deep geothermal - gyrotron - microwave energy - drilling - use oil & gas industry drilling expertise - rehabilitate old mines - adjacency statement - gyrotrons pulse high energy microwave energy in nuclear fusion experiments - Woskov thought of applying to vaporing rocks - Quaise was incorporated to explore the possiblity of using gyrotrons to drill up to 20 miles down to tap into the earths heat energy to heat water and drive steam turbines in existing coal-fired and gas power plants - oil and gas industry drilling expertise can be repurposed for this job - as well as all the abandoned resource wells around the globe - Such heat can provide a stable 24/7 base load energy for most of humanity's energy needs.
implications for energy transition - This is a viable option for replacing the dirty fossil fuel system - It has the scale and engineering timelines to be feasible - It is a supply side change but can affect our demand side strategy - The strategy that may become the most palatable is one of a "temporary energy diet"
Die EU hat nicht erreicht, dass Mittel aus dem Inflation Reduction Act auch zur Subventionierung des Kaufs von aus der EU gelieferten privaten E-Autos verwendet werden. Bei der Entscheidung der USA, die in der EU-Wirtschaft vielfach als protektionistisch bewertet wird, spielt die Herkunft von Mineralien eine große Rolle. Die Verhandlungen über das Critical Minerals Agreement (CMA) führten nicht zu einer Einigung. Der Handelsblatt-Artikel stellt den komplexen Hintergrund ausführlich dar und berichtet auch über weitere Verhandlungen.
In zwei neuen Berichten fordert das Shift-Projekt dazu auf, bei der Einführung des 6G-Netzes den Energieverbrauch zu berücksichtigen und sich - anders als bei 5G - am Prinzip der Datensparsamkeit zu orientieren.
we have the Pilgrims (a people who are celebrated atThanksgiving, a holiday that did not exist until the Civil War), who cameashore at Plymouth Rock (a place only designated as such in the lateeighteenth century). The quintessential American holiday was associatedwith the native turkey to help promote the struggling poultry industryduring the Civil War.
Why does it seem so apropos that Thanksgiving, a quintessential American holiday, is the product of corporate marketing?
Die sogenannten Bauernproteste haben in Frankreich bewirkt, das 400 Mill. Euro zusätzliche Regierungshilfen bewilligt wurden. Die Zahlungen setzen eine Serie von Hilfsmaßnahmen fort, die dazu geführt haben, dass der französische Staat inzwischen im Jahr 2 Milliarden Euro an Hilfen für die Landwirtschaft zahlt. Eine neue Studie des frz. Instituts für Klimaökonomie fordert dagegen eine klimagerechte Reform der Landwirtschaft. https://www.liberation.fr/economie/agriculture-face-aux-crises-successives-les-aides-durgence-fleurissent-et-sintensifient-20240229_F53LZ5REGFETNNGQNV3GHUNZI4/
Studie: https://www.i4ce.org/edito-aides-crise-agricoles-augmentent-et-satisfaisant-pour-personne/
Der französische Haut Conseil pour le Climat, ein vom Präsidenten eingesetztes Beratungsgremium, hat im Januar eine Studie zur Dekarbonisierung der Landwirtschaft vorgelegt. Die Ernährung ist für 22% der französischen Emissionen verantwortlich . Der Bericht fordert eine radikale Umstellung der Landschaft auf Praktiken, die niedrige Emissionen und den Schutz von CO2-Senken sicherstellen. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/le-haut-conseil-pour-le-climat-pointe-les-obstacles-a-la-decarbonation-de-lagriculture-20240125_5C3EGPXKWBCLBKWPNA6ELT7OFY/
Im Trilog haben sich EU-Parlament, europäischer Rat und Europäische Kommission auf den Net-Zero Industry Act geeinigt, mit dem erreicht werden soll, dass mindestens 40% der für die Erzeugung erneuerbarer Energien notwendigen Güter aus der EU selbst kommen. Außerdem sollen die Kapazitäten zur Abscheidung und Speicherung von CO<sub>2</sub> (CCS) bis 2030 auf mindestens 50 Millionen Tonnen gesteigert werden. https://www.repubblica.it/economia/2024/02/07/news/accordo_sul_piano_per_unindustria_a_impatto_zero_la_risposta_delleuropa_a_cina_e_stati_uniti-422077536/
Alle drei republikanischen Kandidaten bei den US-Vorwahlen treten nachdrücklich für eine weitere Steigerung der Förderung von Öl und Gas ein. Sie wollen Subventionen für erneuerbare Energien und Elektromobilität zurückfahren. Nur für 13% der republikanischen Wähler ist die Klimakrise eine Top-Priorität. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/18/trump-republican-rivals-climate-crisis
Die europäische Solar-Industrie ist in einer schweren Krise, weil chinesische Unternehmen mit wesentlich billigeren Modulen auf den europäischen Markt drängen. Die Subventionen der USA für die eigene Industrie verstärkt diesen Druck. Wenn die deutsche Regierung ihre Subventionspolitk nicht ändert, wird der Hersteller Meyer Burger sein deutsches waren schließen und nur noch in den USA produzieren. https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/energie/erneuerbare-energie-solarausruester-meyer-burger-droht-mit-schliessung-der-deutschen-modulproduktion/100007780.html
Die großen Firmen der Fossilindustrie haben 2023 Selbstverpflichtungen zur Dekarbonisierung zurückgenommen. Im wärmsten Jahr der aufgezeichneten Geschichte haben sie an der Perfektionierung ihrer fossilen Geschäftsmodelle und an an einer weiteren Steigerung der Förderung von Öl und Gas gearbeitet. Überblicksartikel im Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/03/2023-hottest-year-on-record-fossil-fuel-climate-crisis
Die amerikanische fossilindustrie finanziert mit einem achtstelligen Millionenbetrag eine Kampagne deren Ziel eine weitere Ausweitung der Produktion ist, wobei man auch die Gaza-Krise ausnutzt. Dabei werden vor allem Desinformationsstrategien der sogenannten climate delayers verwendet.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/10/oil-ads-lights-on-energy
for: elephants in the room - financial industry at the heart of the polycrisis, polycrisis - key role of finance industry, Marjorie Kelly, Capitalism crisis, Laura Flanders show, book - Wealth Supremacy - how the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Captialism Drive Today's Crises
Summary
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the underlying tenets of wellness culture also set the stage for a paranoid individualism: Neoliberal wellness culture’s message “that individuals must take charge over their own bodies as their primary sites of influence, control, and competitive edge” and “that those who don’t exercise that control deserve what they get” has turned out to be “all too compatible with far-right notions of natural hierarchies, genetic superiority, and disposable people.”A collection of resentments
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for: climate crisis - elites, Kevin Anderson - elites, carbon emissions - elites, adjacency - elites - carbon inequality - incentives - luxury - capitalism
title: A Habitable Earth Can No Longer Afford The Rich – And That Could Mean Me And You
date: Nov. 29, 2023
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Energy transitions can happen without the engagement of the oil and gas industry, but the journey to net zero will be more costly and difficult to navigate if they are not on board.
for: energy transition without willing participation from the fossil fuel industry
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A productive debate about the oil and gas industry in transitions needs to avoid two common misconceptions. The first is that transitions can only be led by changes in demand.
for: double bind - oil and gas industry committing to clean energy, oil and gas industry - Mexican standoff - SIMPOL
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For producers that choose to diversify and are looking to align with the aims of the Paris Agreement, our bottom-up analysis of cash flows in a 1.5 °C scenario suggests that a reasonable ambition is for 50% of capital expenditures to go towards clean energy projects by 2030, on top of the investment needed to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions.
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stats: oil and gas industry - required investments in clean energy
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Some 30% of the energy consumed in a net zero energy system in 2050 comes from low-emissions fuels and technologies that could benefit from the skills and resources of the oil and gas industry.
for: stats - oil and gas industry - repurposing for clean energy
stats: oil and gas industry - repurposing for clean energy
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Many producers say they will be the ones to keep producing throughout transitions and beyond. They cannot all be right.
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stats: oil and gas industry - fight for survival
In a scenario that hits global net zero emissions by 2050, declines in demand are sufficiently steep that no new long lead-time conventional oil and gas projects are required. Some existing production would even need to be shut in. In 2040, more than 7 million barrels per day of oil production is pushed out of operation before the end of its technical lifetime in a 1.5 °C scenario.
for: stats - oil and gas industry - steep drop in production
stats - oil and gas industry - steep drop in production
The production, transport and processing of oil and gas results in just under 15% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. This is a huge amount, equivalent to all energy-related greenhouse gas emissions from the United States.
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stats: oil and gas industry - operational emissions
Oil and gas producers account for only 1% of total clean energy investment globally.
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This new IEA report explores what oil and gas companies can do to accelerate net zero transitions and what this might mean for an industry which currently provides more than half of global energy supply and employs nearly 12 million workers worldwide.
for: stats - oil and gas industry - profit split, stats - oil and gas industry - reserves split
stats: oil and gas industry profit split
stats: oil and gas reserve splits
If all national energy and climate goals are reached, this value is lower by 25%, and by 60% if the world gets on track to limit global warming to 1.5 °C.
for: stats - fossil fuel industry - valuation in a 1.5 Deg C world
stats: fossil fuel industry - valuation in a 1.5 Deg C world
for: IEA 2023 report - exec summary - Fossil Fuel industry, IEA 2023 report - exec summary - Oil and Gas industry
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To align with a 1.5 °C scenario, these emissions need to be cut by more than 60% by 2030 from today’s levels and the emissions intensity of global oil and gas operations must near zero by the early 2040s.
The production, transport and processing of oil and gas results in just under 15% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions.
for: stats - oil and gas industry, stats - fossil fuel industry
Oil and gas producers account for only 1% of total clean energy investment globally.
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stats - oil and gas industry
industry which currently provides more than half of global energy supply and employs nearly 12 million workers worldwide.
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stats - oil and gas industry
sadly the now global sustainability industry is mostly stuck with the very 00:05:03 mindset that is the root cause of the wickednesses we are in over six decades
for key insight - sustainability industry is stuck
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all these attacks on poor people are just symptoms of pacifism and overpopulation.<br /> pacifism has only replaced serial murder with hidden warfare. what a stupid waste of energy...
Hintergrundbericht über den Druck, mit dem interessierte Staaten und das FAO-Management versuchten, Berichte über die durch Viehzucht verursachten Treibhausgasemissionen zu verhindern bzw. zu schönen.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/20/the-anti-livestock-people-are-a-pest-how-un-fao-played-down-role-of-farming-in-climate-change
Die britische Fossilindustrie wird ihr offizielles Ziel, die Emissionen bis zum Ende des Jahrzehnts zu halbieren, nur duch ein deutlich entschlosseneres Vorgehen erreichen, wie aus einer Warnung der industriefreundlichen britischen Regulierungsbehörde für die Nordsee hervorgeht. Gemeint sind dabei nur die produktionsbedingten Emissionen. Sie machen 3% der britischen Gesamtemissionen aus. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/05/uk-oil-and-gas-sector-must-do-more-to-meet-2030-emissions-target
our new documentary, Long Knife, begins: the hidden story of the Osage over the 100 years since the Reign of Terror.
China steigert die Produktion von Strom aus Kohle weiter. Im Augenblick wird pro Woche eine zusätzliche Kohleverbrennung genehemigt, die ca. 2 durchschnittlichen Kraftwerken entspricht. Diese Entwicklung steht im Widerspruch zu den offiziellen Klimazielen Chinas. Das Hauptziel ist dabei offensichtlich kurzfristige Energiesicherheit. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/29/china-coal-plants-climate-goals-carbon
Bei einer Temperaturerhöhung um 3° wären 91% der europäischen Skigebiete von Schneemangel betroffen. Er ließe sich nur zum Teil durch Schneekanonen ausgleichen. Nicht nur das Verschwinden der Schneedecke, sondern auch zunehmender Wassermangel werden den Wintertourismus erschweren oder unmöglich machen, wie eine neue Studie belegt.
when you when you sort of take a step back and look at that part of the distraction and the 00:14:47 chaos that Trump and these GOP trolls deliver it's it's a wonderful Boon for the oil and gas industry and the Koch brothers and the guys that fund these campaigns and the federal Federalist 00:14:59 Society you know that's owning the Supreme Court they want to keep doing business as usual and the easiest way to do that is to have this big chaotic GOP that ignores climate change and to play 00:15:11 into what they want is the mainstream media not focusing more on climate change let alone making those two connections and a lot of mainstream media is scared to make that connection because oil companies are paying the bills 00:15:23 and CNN and every other network
Standard-Artikel über die Schwierigkeiten, in Österreich Großprojekte zur Energiewende administrativ und gegen den Widerstand lokaler Initiativen durchzusetzen. Die drei ausgewählten Beispiele zeigen, dass die Probleme und die Motive für den Widerstand sehr unterschiedlich sind. Die EU will mit dem Net Zero Industry Act die Zeit bis zur Umsetzung von Projekten auf maximal anderthalb Jahre verkürzen. https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000182417/ueberforderte-behoerden-und-protestierende-buerger-bremsen-die-energiewende-aus
What is the culture of the future?
For largely financial reasons, the intensity of bookings is increasing (the number of artists scheduled to perform per year, per season, etc.) and the bookings themselves are growing more and more extensive (the kilometres/miles travelled by artists continue to rise with fewer and fewer performance dates in each region)
artists are complicit in
Most renowned artists and the trades and professions around them (producers, broadcasters, booking agents, distributors, internet platforms…) are today dependent on hyper-intensive energy-consuming models.
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CCS likely has an important role in stopping emissions from some industrial process, particularly cement and possibly steel. But that is very different from using it to support an oil and gas industry that needs to be phased out within 10 to 15 years at the latest, if we are to meet our Paris commitments.
Those improvements better come quick.
Bericht zu dem Projekt nefi, bei dem es um die Dekarbonisierung der österreichischen Industrie geht. Sie ist schon deutlich vor 2050 möglich, wenn die entsprechenden Rahmenbedingungen geschaffen werden. Dabei geht Thomas Kienberger, der für diesen Artikel befragt wurde, davon aus dass Energie aus südlichen Ländern importiert werden muss, und dass CO<sub>2</sub> durch CCS gespeichert und dann auch außerhalb von Österreich gelagert werden muss. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000175530/schaffen-wir-die-klimaneutrale-industrie-bis-2040
La polvere di ruggine ci bruciava sotto le palpebre e ci impastava la gola e la bocca con un sapore quasi di sangue.
The intense sensoriality of this sentence opens up questions of visceral geographies and material ecocriticism by way of stimuli pertaining to touch and taste in particular: the rusty environment gives rise to forbidding language associated not only with the exterminatory context (burning/blood) but also with the human being pervaded by the non-human, as the particles of iron oxide unsettle the functioning of the eyes and gullet.
DAFR
una cisterna interrata
In the previous chapter, ‘Esame di chimica’, Primo has been admitted, through a kind of perverse and humiliating ‘chemistry examination’ carried out by Nazi official Herr Doktor Pannwitz, to a so-called ‘Chemical Kommando’. This Kommando will work, notionally, in a laboratory of the Buna-Werke industrial rubber plant, under construction by IG Farben next to the Monowitz-Auschwitz III concentration camp (and other POW and labour camps). The ‘cistern’ here is not a laboratory setting, but is probably a work site within the Buna complex.
Monowitz was the largest of the extensive network of so-called satellite- or sub-camps beyond Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau. For more information on Monowitz, see the Subcamps of Auschwitz project.
RG
so far as generalaccuracy of content is concerned, Wikipedia is comparable to conventionally compiledencyclopedias, including Britannica.
This information definitely changed my opinions and views of Wikipedia. I feel like all throughout high school I was taught that Wikipedia was not a scholarly source so I always avoided looking on there because I didn't think it was accurate but reading the results of this study and the article attached about this study has changed my views of Wikipedia.
La polvere di ruggine ci bruciava sotto le palpebre e ci impastava la gola e la bocca con un sapore quasi di sangue.
The intense sensoriality of this sentence opens up questions of visceral geographies and material ecocriticism by way of stimuli pertaining to touch and taste in particular: the rusty environment gives rise to forbidding language associated not only with the exterminatory context (burning/blood) but also with the human being pervaded by the non-human, as the particles of iron oxide unsettle the functioning of the eyes and gullet.
DAFR
La polvere di ruggine ci bruciava sotto le palpebre e ci impastava la gola e la bocca con un sapore quasi di sangue
The intense sensoriality of this sentence opens up questions of visceral geographies and material ecocriticism by way of stimuli pertaining to touch and taste in particular: the rusty environment gives rise to forbidding language associated not only with the exterminatory context (burning/blood) but also with the human being pervaded by the non-human, as the particles of iron oxide unsettle the functioning of the eyes and gullet.
DAFR
una cisterna interrata
In the previous chapter, ‘Esame di chimica’, Primo has been admitted, through a kind of perverse and humiliating ‘chemistry examination’ carried out by Nazi official Herr Doktor Pannwitz, to a so-called ‘Chemical Kommando’. This Kommando will work, notionally, in a laboratory of the Buna-Werke industrial rubber plant, under construction by IG Farben next to the Monowitz-Auschwitz III concentration camp (and other POW and labour camps). The ‘cistern’ here is not a laboratory setting, but is probably a work site within the Buna complex.
Monowitz was the largest of the extensive network of so-called satellite- or sub-camps beyond Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau. For more information on Monowitz, see the Subcamps of Auschwitz project.
RG
una cisterna interrata
In the previous chapter, ‘Esame di chimica’, Primo has been admitted, through a kind of perverse and humiliating ‘chemistry examination’ carried out by Nazi official Herr Doktor Pannwitz, to a so-called ‘Chemical Kommando’. This Kommando will work, notionally, in a laboratory of the Buna-Werke industrial rubber plant, under construction by IG Farben next to the Monowitz-Auschwitz III concentration camp (and other POW and labour camps). The ‘cistern’ here is not a laboratory setting, but is probably a work site within the Buna complex.
Monowitz was the largest of the extensive network of so-called satellite- or sub-camps beyond Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau. For more information on Monowitz, see the Subcamps of Auschwitz project.
RG
30 Industriebetriebe sind einer Untersuchung des ökoinstituts zu Folge für 8% der deutschen Emissionen verantwortlich. Eisen und Stahl, Chemie und Zement sind die schmutzigsten Branchen. https://taz.de/Klimaschutz-in-der-Industrie/!5936194/
Der deutsche Wirtschaftsminister Habeck plant, den Umstieg deutscher Industriebetriebe auf erneuerbare Energien zu fördern, damit diese dadurch keine Mehrkosten haben. Ulrike Herrmann beurteilt diesen Plan in der Pfalz positiv, schränkt aber ein Komma dass Angaben über die gesamtstrommenge, die erneuerbar produziert werden kann, fehlen. In Deutschland können nicht genug Strom für Industrie Heizung und Verkehr zusammen produziert werden. Er müsste deswegen entweder z.b über ammoniak-porte aus Namibia eingeführt werden oder – ein Verstoß gegen Tabus der Industriepolitik – energieintensive Industrien müssten in Länder mit mehr sonnen und Windenergie ausgelagert werden. https://taz.de/Klimasubventionen-fuer-Unternehmen/!5936015/
https://letterboxd.com/bitdepth/lists/
bitdepth has some interesting lists, including films directed by women.
Chevron
Die Quartalsgewinne von Exxon und Chevron liegen etwas unter dem vergangenen Quartal, aber deutlich über dem gleichen Quatal im Vorjahr. Die Produktion wird nicht deutlich gesteigert, aber die Erschließung neuer Felder z.B. in Guyana wird vorangetrieben. Die globale Nachfrage nach Öl und Gas steigt weiterhin, allerdings langsam. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/business/energy-environment/oil-exxon-chevron.html
Bericht über eine Diskussion in der Wirtschaftskammer zu den aktuellen konjunkturellen Problemen der Bauwirtschaft in Graz. Offenbar haben ökologische Überlegungen und Zweifel am Sinn des Wachstums keine Rolle gespielt.
through research on the topic, i accidentally learned about the Zettelkasten industry.
—u/theinvertedform
It's an "industry" now! long live the zettelkasten capitalists!
antecedent: research on Walter Benjamin's Archive
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0017674/?ref_=tt_cl_t_12
book idea w/ title:
Uncredited: The Life of Fred Aldrich
was he related to Robert Aldrich?
Mit Total meldet ein weiterer Energiegigant Rekordgewinne. Sie gehen zu einem großen Teil auf den gestiegenen Gaspreis zurück. In erneuerbarer Energie. Total investiert nur einen kleinen Teil der Einnahmen in erneuerbare Energien. Wesentlich mehr Geld fließt in Dividenden und den Rückkauf von Aktien.
Modern industry has established the world market, for which the discovery of America Paved the way. pg. 15
you you have to back politicians who are 00:52:41 willing to change this and unfortunately there's no party that's uh in favor of canceling student debt or any kind of debt in the united states because the political parties are subsidized by the banking in the financial sector so uh i don't see uh i don't see a way out
!- Michael Hudson : The realities of debt writedown of any kind - Not pragmatic because no political party will support it because all political parties are subsidized by banking and financial sector
Storytelling Will Save the EarthEmotional resonance, not cold statistics, will bring home the scale of the climate crisis—and the need for action.
!- Title : Storytelling Will Save the Earth Emotional resonance, not cold statistics, will bring home the scale of the climate crisis—and the need for action. - See related story: Brian Eno – "We need the creative industry to help inspire climate action" https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imperial.ac.uk%2Fnews%2F241832%2Fbrian-eno-we-need-creative-industry%2F&group=world
A 2020 study by the European Union found that contrails and other non-CO2 aircraft emissions warm the planet twice as much as the carbon dioxide released by airplanes.
From the intermediate linked blog post:
Using a derivative metric of the Global Warming Potential (100), the GWP, aviation emissions are currently warming the climate at approximately three times the rate of that associated with CO2 emissions alone.
pp. 35-36 of EASA report for European Commission, (2020). Updated analysis of the non-CO2 climate impacts of aviation and potential policy measures pursuant to the EU Emissions Trading System Directive Article 30(4). https://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar:7bc666c9-2d9c-11eb-b27b-01aa75ed71a1.0001.02/DOC_1&format=PDF
When I come across interesting information, I highlight then comment a corresponding question:

Every studio has a slate.
What is the source for this?
It's highly related to having a direction in life, or the famous example of Feynman's 12 Favorite Problems that he always kept in mind to slowly be working at.
Part of having a list of purpose dovetails to how one builds their identity too.
The casting director Marion Dougherty, in the documentary Casting By (dir. Tom Donahue, 2012): “I would keep the three-by-five card. I would put down anything that hit my mind.” The card for Dustin Hoffman (whose first screen appearance was in an episode of Naked City) notes Bob Duval’s (Robert Duvall’s) judgment that Hoffman is “v.g.” — very good. Notice the name of Blair Brown in the third screenshot. The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd is an Orange Crate Art and Musical Assumptions favorite.
The documentary Casting By (2012) shows casting director Marion Dougherty's 3 x 5" index card collection which she used for casting notes. In particular they show an example card for Dustin Hoffman with his details. In Hoffman's case, his card included the older telephone numbers with exchanges (EN2-6933 or Endicott2 6933), so these cards may have also served a contact purpose similar to more modern rolodexes. Different from them however, Dougherty's also included heights, credits, and other observations relevant to the casting process.
Screen capture from the movie
Meet the media startups making big money on vaccine conspiracies. (n.d.). Fortune. Retrieved December 23, 2021, from https://fortune.com/2021/05/14/disinformation-media-vaccine-covid19/
Guter Artikel, auch als Ergänzung zu der großen Studie von Anderson und anderen. Die Studie, die er vorstellt, geht auf die verschiedenen Player und Interessengruppen ein, die Dekarbonisierung erschweren und manchmal beschleunigen.
She'll und BP geben allein im UK Hunderttausende für Greenwashing-Kampagnen aus. Zur Zeit sollten sie ihnen vor allem die Licence to Operate vor dem Hintergrund von Milliardengewinnen sichern, die sie den durch den Ukraine-Krieg gestiegenen Ölpreisen verdanken.
This blog is your guide to learn everything about the popular battle; industry design Vs product design Vs UX design.
Notable actors that worked with Roman Polanski after rape charges were filed in 1977.
Indigenous science has long been rejected without consideration,overlooked, or exploited without recognition by powerful Westerninterests. Bio-piracy sees Indigenous Knowledge of plants stolen andpatented for use in the food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industrieswith little or no recognition or recompense. Indigenous starknowledge has been ignored, even when that knowledge clearlyexisted long before the ‘discoveries’ of Western science.
Indigenous knowledge has been broadly ignored, rejected, and even exploited without any recognition by Western colonizers. Examples of appropriation include knowledge of plants patented for use in food, medicine, and cosmetics.
King Richard Written by Zach Baylin
Zach Baylin is JHU A/S '02 Academy Nomination for Original Screenplay 2022
“Public research universities are committed to improving the workforce outcomes of their students and to addressing the workforce needs of local economies. This approach can ensure students that their credentials will have value to the labor market, and it can ensure employers that graduates have the skills required to perform in the workplace.”
For some, this is reasonable and rationale. It's the point of the whole enterprise. Yet for others, this take is controversial, as it may threaten the ideals and/or visions of the purpose of Public Education. These stakeholders may ask, "Is it the job of public education to serve industry's needs by preparing proper cogs for the workforce wheels?" At the same time, others may wonder, "Is public education willfully performing a disservice to our students if our credentials are not valued by employers?"
These are important questions to ask, and to answer.
Most entertainment media are hits business.
Akanbi, U. (2022). Impact of Covid-19 on cyber Security. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ktr4y
The Culture Industry: Mass Deception in Dialectic of Enlightenment
The culture industry is any industry that is producing cultural products: news, beauty, music, fashion industry has one goal: generate profit. They will produce things that are produced like a factory. They are intended to produce consumerism. In the way that sex sells, rebellion also sells. The industries that are making our culture are feeding us our news so are corporaterized. Adorno and Horkheimer would not be suprised about YouTube. That cultural adversary may be dialectical.
Academia. You know more about less and less.
Backdrop context: Shaky ground of liberal democracy in the beginnings of WW2,rise of social movements, rise of nationalism and facism.
Englightment: Reason & Individual liberty Bacon: a larger system that synthesized knowledge and power as one; a flipping of nature over man and man over nature; but A/H thought that this played out in a human global scale.
If Enlightenment was supposed to create logic and reason why did we experience WW2, for A/H if we're to take Bacon seriously we have to consider DOMINATION in newer notions of freedom.
Regression: Enlightenment as Myth. Englightenment becomes totalitarian it ABSTRACTS. Ex. Hitler youth, a difference among others yet they become homogenous sameness among each other.
The result of the sacrifice continues that is far more reaching that MArx's alienation. --> UNFETTERED ACCEPTANCE
Adorno/H say that positivism: 1) a system of philiospgy were every assertion can be proved 2) as ideoogy where eveyrthing is true by default and questioning it goes against objective foundations.
Kant saw a short-sighted view of self-reason
IDEOLOGY of defintiion #2 the process of Englightenment is brought into analysis of the Culture Industry.
Context: AMerica is becoming global powerhouse, Soviet underwent their own Industrial Revolution, change was everywhere and revolutionary change with one large outlier thus the immediat question. Despite a global population of workers revolitng around the globe then why didnt the United States or Western Countries embrace similar post-capitalist systems seen across teh globe? And how is Soviet existing as a post-capitalist system alongside the capitalist system?
Art is being systematized, newer technology is being synthesized into one and the same narrative. The same repackaged story; subject and authority. This mimics the governance of a few over many.
A/H utilize Kant's idea of schemtaism (being how the midn communicates with objects and other structures aorund us, how to reason and cogantate; synthesize and bring Froyd into the mix, how we suppress ourselves and our desires to how we fit into society. We cognitively pick up how the world is presented to us. Viewership creates the bounds within which we can do art. A psychological realism that is difficult to break for a person who works a 9-5pm; to break it in a capitalist system is used to labor and build wealth. Art becomes the same even when it tries to stand out. There is a unifornm aethetic if you wnat to be different, the sameness and constant
Art is now abstracted a fulfilmmnet of mere numbers rather than aesthetic work and utility. Regarding art in newer creation, A/H bring up autombiles as an example, a film must have a romatic sequence that the industry now demands. This is part of Mechanical reproduction. Art will become tailored to your class relation as well. But it's not only class and poleconomy but it's not just corporate art is entirely based oof profit but rather there is a cyclcial ideology that reinforces this ideology. see
The focus isn't on marvel movies (for their thrist for profit) or to tell consumers to not consume this art but its the industry itself that reproduces the
"Thirst" is not conscious it is a result of the structure that is capitalism the culture industry modling of our desires in the first place.
It's not good enough to tell individuals to not consume said tailored art. Example anti-semitism is a result of essentialist notions of race. Largest incubators of anti-semitism stem from the bourigeoise themselves but a ruling class of people attempting to hide a ruling class domination. Here the bouregoise know the struggles of individuals and pins this to Jewish individuals.
Thus its not really just pushing Jewish people out of certain borders this marks the downfall of bouregoise property.
Look up: > Cultural education became....
The whole world is made to pass through the filter of the culture industry...
Culture is a paradoxical commodity. It is so completely subject to the law of exchange that it is no longer exchanged; it is so blindly equated with use that it can no longer be used. For this reason it merges with the advertisement. The more meaningless the latter appears under monopoly, the more omnipotent culture becomes. (pg 131).
Unending sameness also governs the relationship to the past. What is new in the phase of mass culture compared to that of late liberalism is the exclusion of the new.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/business/media/ankler-janice-min-richard-rushfield.html
Mr. Rushfield, the founder of The Ankler, which bills itself as “the newsletter Hollywood loves to hate and hates to love,” will be the company’s editorial director and chief columnist.
I thought this was the niche filled by Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood?
The Google Career Certificates Employer Consortium consists of over 150 U.S. companies like Deloitte, Infosys, Snap Inc., Target, Verizon, and of course, Google. These companies span multiple sectors and are committed to considering Google Career Certificate graduates for entry-level jobs. Upon completion of a Google Career Certificate, you will gain access to an exclusive job platform where you can easily apply to opportunities from employers with open jobs. https://grow.google/certificates/it-support/#?modal_active=none
The consortium consists of 150 companies in December, 2021. This will increase. Significant community college reaction is (wisely?) sensing an opportunity instead of a threat. They are collaborating and indications are they will benefit across multiple verticals. I'm excited to see how this plays out in 4-year spaces of Higher Ed:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/13/on-succession-jeremy-strong-doesnt-get-the-joke
So very Hollywood with all the fluff.
Some people have found success with a crowd-funded Patreon-kind of funding model. Even though ostensibly making is showbusiness now,
Starting with reality television, everything seems to have become entertainment. Social media has accelerated this.
The idea that "making is showbusiness" is an interesting label for this.
We also have "manufacturing"; when will we have digufacturing?
News, A. B. C. (n.d.). COVID-19 vaccine mandates moving the needle, experts say. ABC News. Retrieved November 11, 2021, from https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-19-vaccine-mandates-moving-needle-experts/story?id=80928249
Kale, S. (2021, November 11). Chakras, crystals and conspiracy theories: How the wellness industry turned its back on Covid science. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/11/injecting-poison-will-never-make-you-healthy-how-the-wellness-industry-turned-its-back-on-covid-science
Wiseman, E. (2021, October 17). The dark side of wellness: The overlap between spiritual thinking and far-right conspiracies. The Observer. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/17/eva-wiseman-conspirituality-the-dark-side-of-wellness-how-it-all-got-so-toxic
Students should already know the meaning of these expressions from pre-reading activity when we went through all questions in questionnaire together. If they do not remember it I do not translate them before. It will be too easy so in that occasion they are supposed to guess the right meaning on their own.
ESP
Stories about the dirty business of Canadian mining.
Stories about the dirty business of Canadian mining.
Mining is a dirty business, but it is what Canada does best. Three-quarters of the world’s mining companies are best right here in the Great White North.
In our new season, Commons: Mining, we’ll be digging deep into the practices and the history of the extractive industry. From the gold rushes that shaped the country to the cover-ups and the outright frauds at home and abroad.
Canada was built on extracting what lay under the land, no matter the damage it did or who it ended up hurting.
The first episode of Commons: Mining comes out on October 13th.
Canada is not an accident or a work in progress or a thought experiment. I mean that Canada is a scam — a pyramid scheme, a ruse, a heist. Canada is a front. And it’s a front for a massive network of resource extraction companies, oil barons, and mining magnates.
Globally, more than 75% of prospecting and mining companies on the planet are based in Canada. Seemingly impossible to conceive, the scale of these statistics naturally extends the logic of Canada’s historical legacy as state, nation, and now, as global resource empire.
Canada’s Indian Reserve System served, officially, as a strategy of Indigenous apartheid (preceding South African apartheid) and unofficially, as a policy of Indigenous genocide (preceding the Nazi concentration camps of World War II).
It’s really been about theft on a grand scale. Look at how the United Kingdom became rich, or England and then Britain as it was, at the time. It was through bleeding India dry, we bled $45 trillion out of India. We taxed the subcontinent until there was virtually nothing left, then used a small amount of that tax money to buy its goods. So we were buying goods with their own money. And then we used the phenomenal profits — 100% profits — from that enterprise to finance the capture of other nations, and the colonization of those nations and the citizens, the railways and the other things we built in order to drain wealth out of them.
— George Monbiot
Michigan seat belt law turns 30 after bitter battle. (n.d.). Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 4 October 2021, from https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2015/07/30/michigan-seatbelt-law-anniversary-air-bags-takata/30242557/
Understanding COVID-19 Registration Form. (n.d.). Google Docs. Retrieved March 31, 2021, from https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrC4krKVHcSm_Wi2VcXcGHa4F8l3cilL2xhbB62etcK4sy4w/viewform?usp=embed_facebook
Before beginning this piece I'm reminded to note some advice given to me by Rick Kurtzman at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) on reading scripts: If you're not going to act on having read (a script), then why bother having read it in the first place?
He meant to make notes, write coverage, create writer lists for rewriting, producer lists for selling, director list for directing, casting lists. One should tell people about the (good) things one read. Make your reading produce something.
It’s a familiar trick in the privatisation-happy US – like, say, underfunding public education and then criticising the institution for struggling.
This same thing is being seen in the U.S. Post Office now too. Underfund it into failure rather than provide a public good.
Capitalism definitely hasn't solved the issue, and certainly without government regulation. See also the last mile problem for internet service, telephone service, and cable service.
UPS and FedEx apparently rely on the USPS for last mile delivery in remote areas. (Source for this?)
The poor and the remote are inordinately effected in almost all these cases. What other things do these examples have in common? How can we compare and contrast the public service/government versions with the private capitalistic ones to make the issues more apparent. Which might be the better solution: capitalism with tight government regulation to ensure service at the low end or a government monopoly of the area? or something in between?
Jed Kolko. (2021, June 4). Steady gains in high work-from-home (and better-paid) sectors, now just 1.6% below pre-pandemic employment. After initial slow rebound, now moving back to baseline. In low work-from-home sectors, jobs still way below pre-pandemic baseline. Https://t.co/6zC3RBfek9 [Tweet]. @JedKolko. https://twitter.com/JedKolko/status/1400797111067627520
Dempsey, H., & Parkin, B. (2021, May 5). India’s Covid surge rocks global shipping industry. https://www.ft.com/content/cf40d764-6ab6-4638-bea6-594cc3cd5d53
the startup itself can’t remove songs
content is not hosted by Audius, instead being hosted by independent node operators.
This article kind of reads like a smear piece on Audius
Blockchains make piracy more of a headache.
How so? Couldn't you just crosscheck the public ledger to verify the uploaders' info??
Scientific paper claiming smokers less likely to acquire Covid retracted over tobacco industry links. (2021, April 22). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/22/scientific-paper-claiming-smokers-less-likely-to-acquire-covid-retracted-over-tobacco-industry-links
film sites on the web have become the minor leagues of the movie and television industry.
Or as we've seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, feature films are debuting on the internet rather than in theaters, so now the big leagues are on the web!
UnHerd. ‘Should Big Pharma Profit from Covid?’, 17 November 2020. https://unherd.com/2020/11/should-big-pharma-profit-from-covid/.
Goolsbee, Austan, and Chad Syverson. ‘Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020’. Journal of Public Economics 193 (1 January 2021): 104311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104311.
Heroy, Samuel, Isabella Loaiza, Alexander Pentland, and Neave O’Clery. ‘Controlling COVID-19: Labor Structure Is More Important than Lockdown Policy’. ArXiv:2010.14630 [Physics], 5 November 2020. http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14630.
DokkenOfficial (2021) Don Dokken discusses Covid-19 with Dr. Anne Rimoin, Youtube Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3XvmFf23XU&feature=youtu.be
What Biden will sign Monday is an order, which will increase how much of a product must be made in the US for it to qualify as made in America. It will also create a website for Americans to see what contracts are being awarded to foreign vendors,
i'm really impressed by the registry of projects being awarded to foreign vendors, seems like a good way to create visibility & self promote domestic industry.
Bedingt durch die lange Nutzungsdauer von Gebäuden und deren lang anhaltenden Auswirkungen müssen verbindliche Anforderungen bis 2025 eingeführt werden.
Audio’s Opportunity and Who Will Capture It
Anomie (/ˈænəˌmi/) is a "condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals".[1] It is the breakdown of social bonds between an individual and the community, e.g., under unruly scenarios resulting in fragmentation of social identity and rejection of self-regulatory values.
I can't help but see this definition and think it needs to be applied to economics immediately. In particular I can think of a few quick examples of economic anomie which are artificially covering up a free market and causing issues within individual communities.
College Textbooks: Here publishers are marketing to professors who assign particular textbooks and subverting students which are the actual market and consumers of those textbooks. This causes an inflated market and has allowed textbook prices to spiral out of control.
The American Health Care Market In this example, the health care providers (doctors, hospitals, etc.) have been segmented away from their consumers (patients) by intermediary insurance companies which are driving the market to their own good rather than a free-er set of smaller (and importantly local) markets that would be composed of just the sellers and the buyers. As a result, the consumer of health care has no ability to put a particular price on what they're receiving (and typically they rarely ever ask, even more so when they have insurance). This type of economic anomie is causing terrific havoc within the area.
(Aside: while the majority of health care markets is very small in size (by distance), I will submit that the advent of medical tourism does a bit to widen potential markets, but this segment of the market is tiny and very privileged in comparison.)
Chris Reid on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved October 9, 2020, from https://twitter.com/ChrisReidDesign/status/1313540343908970496
Hybrids: Between Industry and Academia ft. Nurit Nobel (Episode 016). (2020, August 9). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oRegXaGsTU
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There’s just so much noise small businesses tend to ignore. But in Indonesia, that isn’t the case…yet. The software landscape there is similar to the 1990s in the US. It’s harder to piggyback off of existing software infrastructure — whether it’s payments or platforms — but there’s also a lot of obvious opportunity in software that no one is going after. The same could be said about investing elsewhere in Southeast Asia or in LatAm or Africa. There are fewer startups to compete with for attention, and it’s less of a marketing game than building a software company in the US.
The software industry in southeast asia, latam or africa is similar to the US in the 1990s and is more about building than about marketing.
As economist Carlotta Perez describes, we are now in the Deployment Phase of the internet in the US — meaning, we are in-process of exhausting all use cases for internet technologies in the US. What has traditionally happened at the end of a technology phase is oversaturation of investment dollars chasing smaller returns. Valuations go up, returns go down, and investors lose their money. (Sound familiar?) On a company level, what this means is, if not careful, a lot of companies will end up wasting marketing dollars in this type of landscape. Companies in the 2020s, unlike in the 1990s, need to really be performance-marketing driven in order to compete. The end of last year certainly showed us many examples of well-funded companies that could not make the unit economics work. The software industry has become a marketing game.
According to Carlotta Perez we are in the Deployment Phase of internet as a technology. Meaning we are exhausting the use cases for the internet and more money is chasing decreasing returns.
As a result companies need to be more efficient with their marketing spend in the 2020s compared to before.
The software industry has become a marketing game
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Miller, Joe, and Martin Arnold. ‘Eurozone Industry Fears Rebound from Virus Crash Will Be Shortlived’, 23 August 2020. https://www.ft.com/content/7a739543-a39e-4301-830d-dddc8a0f503b.
Hausmann, Ricardo. ‘Why Zoom Can’t Save the World | by Ricardo Hausmann’. Project Syndicate, 10 August 2020. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/high-economic-cost-of-business-travel-shutdown-by-ricardo-hausmann-2020-08.
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