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Divertente interpretazione del lavoro di Amazon nel settore retail: reinventare Borders. (Che era la mia catena di librerie preferita)

Money quote: “You would not walk into an Amazon Books and mistake it for a mom & pop, independent shop. Nor would you mistake it for a throwback library. It looks like what Borders used to look like before Amazon killed Borders. It looks like salt in an old wound. Or a monument built on top of a gravesite.²”

https://500ish.com/amazon-just-invented-borders-books-d2d6c933b133
E così adesso la gente si rende conto che Waze è stata la rovina delle città e della pianificazione del traffico.

Money quote: “Why the adulation? Waze grabbed you—the harried, downtrodden L.A. commuter—with the subjective, hard-to-counter feeling that this crazy route over hill and dale just had to be faster. Speeding through residential neighborhoods gave hundreds of thousands of Angelenos something they’d scarcely known in this famously gridlocked city—the sense that they were in control. Early adopters suddenly had a technological edge on those same dummies who pay retail, don’t rewind the odometer when they return their leased Porsche, and don’t know the tricks to getting a table at Maude. The Waze founders were geniuses. Waze did save you precious minutes…for a while.”

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/waze-los-angeles-neighborhoods/
C’è chi sostiene che in panpsichismo sia una cosa seria. Cioè che probabilmente è vero.

Money quote: “The main objection made to panpsychism is that it is ‘crazy’ and ‘just obviously wrong’. It is thought to be highly counterintuitive to suppose that an electron has some kind of inner life, no matter how basic, and this is taken to be a very strong reason to doubt the truth of panpsychism. But many widely accepted scientific theories are also crazily counter to common sense.”

https://aeon.co/ideas/panpsychism-is-crazy-but-its-also-most-probably-true
La straordinaria - e tutta newyorkese - storia dei bagel, si cui io sono ghiottissimo quando caldi e con il Philadelphia, e della comunità yiddish che li ha creati.

Money quote: “It was not the first bagel bakers union in New York. As hundreds of thousands of Jews swept into New York ahead of the First World War, dozens of Jewish bakeries opened on the Lower East Side, mostly staffed by young Jewish men providing their friends and families with challah, rye bread, and bagels. An 1894 New York Press article describes the wet, rotting floorboards and an infestation “of a great variety of insect life,” with roaches “springing at a lively rate in the direction of the half moulded dough.” Laws to protect them were passed, but inspectors failed to do their job. Conditions were hard and dangerous, and bakers attempted to advocate for themselves by creating bakers’ unions. These quickly failed.”

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-forgotten-history-of-new-york-s-bagel-famines
La brutta storia della normalizzazione di Cathay Pacific durante le proteste a Hong Kong.

Money quote: “It is said that John Slosar, chairman of Swire – the conglomerate owning 45 percent of Cathay Pacific, was summoned by Chinese officials and essentially strong-armed into forcing changes at Cathay to appease the government. Swire, with $13 billion in investments in mainland China immediately complied in order to avoid putting these mainland investments at risk.”

https://airlinegeeks.com/2019/08/25/chinese-crackdown-on-cathay-pacific-creates-sets-a-bad-precedent/