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So, what’s the #MMT comment of the day? The #shutdown in the #US is looming, as it always is, and #Trump suggests just removing the ceiling altogether? It’s Trump, sure, and we know what this will be used for. Yet, generally speaking: Why not? How so? How to build on this?
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How rice paddies turn into factory land. Few nations have benefited more than #Vietnam from the scramble — especially north Vietnam, historically an economic laggard compared to the more cosmopolitan south. Around Haiphong, a few hours’ drive from China, factories bloomed. The NYTimes
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We are happy that the new volume of the EASST Review is out. 43/2 baby! Hugs to everyone involved and the fellow editorial team members. This is a conference issue discussing all #sts things that happened at #EASST4S2024. Plus, the winning pieces of the creative writing competition are included.
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang was in #Hanoi #Vietnam last week, as he was in 2023, and he put on a decent street show. It’s thus easy to overlook that last year’s formulation that Vietnam will be Nvidia’s “second home” was a slightly misleading claim. Still promising #semiconductor miracles. 🍺
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Now that the seal is broken on scraping #Bluesky posts into datasets for machine learning, people are trolling users and one-upping each other by making increasingly massive datasets of non-anonymized, full-text Bluesky posts That’s the decentral reality, as 404 reports, your stuff is out there
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Both are blocked on #X, attacked by Elon, and both do a solid job of replacing #Twitter. The #Fediverse aka #Mastodon and #Bluesky play different cards, an open network filled by volunteers here and advanced sharing and moderation tools there. Team platform organizing! Also, consider linking the two
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Wenn ich irgendjemanden fragen würde, ‘Wünschen Sie sich, dass sich die weltweiten Einkommen einander annähern?’, dann wäre die Antwort: Ja, natürlich, das wäre doch toll, … Aber es führt zu Unzufriedenheit, wenn es dann tatsächlich passiert. Milanović zur Elephantenkurve. #Mittelschicht #China
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#blackfriday, und alle bemängeln individuelle Laster und fehlende Initiativen. Dabei passiert viel, wie ich in meinem Buch zu #Elektroschrott gezeigt habe, von Deutschland bis Indien. Hightech-Recycling, Regulation, Kooperation. Aber die Produktion bleibt ungebremst. hightech-am-ende.de