Blake Patterson30 years ago
#Apple #BusinessWeek #tech #technews #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #computing #computinghistory #GilAmelio #Fortune500 #headlines
General Strike NowUAW members strike outside the General Motors Lansing Redistribution facility in Lansing, Michigan. Photographer: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images.#UnitedAutomobileWorkers #ElectricVehicles #DonaldJohnTrump #Politics #JobSecurity #GENERALMOTORSCO #Michigan #AutoIndustry #Jobs #Executives #businessweek #industries #politics #green
UAW Strike Is About Inflation and Electric Cars, Workers Say
UAW Strike Is About Inflation and Electric Cars, Workers Say
Cory DoctorowIt's impossible to overstate how widespread skimmers are, and how much criminals make by stealing from poor people. Writing for *#Businessweek*, #JessicaFu describes the mad scramble benefits recipients go through every month, standing by ATMs at midnight on the night of the first of every month in hopes of withdrawing the cash they use to pay for their rent and utility bills before it is stolen by a crook who captured their card number with a skimmer:
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LilMikeSF200 layoff's throughout #Spotify's spidery pivoting #podcasting arms denote desperation as industry wide audio ad feed revenue drops, exclusive star deals lapse, and vaunted production brands like #GimletMedia #Megaphone & #Parcast are folded into the in house Spotify Studios. Spotify's bold billion dollar investment into audio "content" looking more like awkwardly ambitious overreach today...
SteveBloomberg Business Week is a very "white" publication. So I was surprised and impressed that it chose a stock photo of brown-skinned hands shaking to illustrate the idea of trust. (2022 October 31 issue, page 66.)
So I looked through the whole issue and counted photos that included people of identifiable skin color. Seven photos of 52 included dark skin: about 13%, roughly the same as the proportion of Black people in the US.
That strikes me as a diversity win -- particularly where Black people's hands are used to illustrate "trust".
Also, that issue is all about cryptocurrency, and it's a great read: informative and funny. Besides explaining cryptocurrency, it explains a lot about traditional finance for contrast. Cryptocurrency is fascinating technology, and in my opinion a _terrible_ investment.
#Bloomberg #BusinessWeek #diversity #trust #cryptocurrency #BlackMastodon <-- Look, I put a lot of thought into my hashtags!
Upstart Crow2008, Koch was included in #Businessweek's list of top 50 American givers. Between 2004 and 2008, #Koch gave $246 million, focusing on "#libertarian causes, giving money for #academic and #publicpolicy #research and #socialwelfare."[Yeah right] [49] Koch was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from #GeorgeMasonUniversity in recognition of his financial support "through scholarships, faculty recruitment, and research grants".[50] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Koch#Libertarianism
