Residents of #Cordoba, #Spain, have a lot of #experience with #extreme #heat. Other cities unused to high temperatures could learn from the measures Cordoba has taken, including #stopping #outside #work in the #afternoons and health monitoring for at-risk groups, depending on the severity of the #heat #alert. By Carmen Reina for Cordopolis…
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Cory Doctorow interviewed about enshittification by Jesse Mulligan on on RNZ;
#radio #RNZ #Afternoons #JesseMulligan #CoryDoctorow #enshittification
This is how huge tech platforms like Google and Meta roll; first, they're good to their users; then they abuse them to make things better for business customers, then they exploit their business customers to squeeze out every last bit of value for themselves. Then, they die. That's how author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow sees tech's slow-motion collapse. He's in New Zealand to meet readers and talk about his latest book about Silicon Valley's big bet on AI called Picks and Shovels.
5pm and on. Dizzy but in a difficult way. Breathing dense cool air, feeling rain on skin and the scent of petrichor in between the houses. A change of days of weather again, head heavy with the wild cloudy skies.
Closing in on 6pm. Counting raindrops. Hills veiled by clouds and remains of fog. A crow screeching, unseen. Quiescing thoughts. Contemplating.
"There's always been this kind of association between psychedelics and ... broadening your mental horizons, maybe experiencing things in ways you wouldn't normally experience them, and that can obviously have quite a profound therapeutic impact."
#DrRobinVanDerSanden, NZ Drugs Research Team, Massey University, 2024
Tested this again a week ago. Can confirm.
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"Well it turns out working more doesn't always increase productivity. For the past 12 months, Cambridge company Te Miro water have been trialing a 9 day fortnight. That's 3 days off every other weekend."
#JesseMulligan, 2025
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