"NITI Aayog, the government’s think tank, urged the closure of 199 district agro-meteorological units, which were shut in March 2024... The Aayog pushed to privatise these services... climate change and a worsening farm crisis endangers the livelihoods of India’s 145 million farmers, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended critical weather-advisory services... sent to farmers via WhatsApp groups, text messages, TV and radio..."

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Vivian Wilson, who has the misfortune of being Musk’s biological child, has spoken out against the glorified sperm donor and reveals what we suspected: he lied about basically everything. He wasn’t there for her even though he had joint custody.

Now he deadnames and misgenders her, says she’s ‘dead’, and that the ‘woke virus’ got her.

All this shows is that Musk is, to use the scientific term, a fucking loser. He has money, that’s it. He failed as a father.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-transgender-daughter-vivian-wilson-interview-rcna163665

> There is a tremendous amount of tacit knowledge that workers have... both French and British trade unions in their history have experimented with these types of strikes where workers just follow the rules. They do exactly what the rule book says their responsibilities are. And it turns out to be quite disastrous for the companies. Because most of what actually workers do is much more adaptive than just following the rules.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/rot-economics-an-interview-with-mits-daron-acemoglu/

Good interview about AI and the industry.

This is pure cartel behavior: Reddit and Google have cut a deal that will freeze out all other search engines from indexing Reddit, where volunteers do essentially all the work.

This should not be legal.

It is VITAL to replace Reddit, and it will take a global village to do it. If we don't, the cartel wins.

And Google should be broken up by Congress, if the antitrust people won't try.

https://www.404media.co/google-is-the-only-search-engine-that-works-on-reddit-now-thanks-to-ai-deal/