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To 'Reclaim Future-Making', Amazon Workers Published a Collection of Science Fiction Stories
Its goal was to "support workers to reclaim the power of future-making". A 2022 pilot project saw over 25 Amazon workers meeting online "to discuss how science fiction shed light on their working conditions and futures." 13 of them then continued meeting regularly in 2023 with the "Worker as Futuris...
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Google's DeepMind UK Team Reportedly Seeks to Unionize
"Google's DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize," reports TechCrunch:
Around 300 London-based members of Google's AI-focused DeepMind team are seeking to unionize with the Communication Workers Union, according to a Financial Times report that cites three people involved with the unioniza...
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Yoda Bloopers Released - and George Lucas Reveals Why Yoda Talks Backwards
80-year-old George Lucas appeared this week at a 45th anniversary screening of The Empire Strikes Back, reports CNN — and finally gave a good explanation for why Yoda speaks the way he does. "He explained that it came about in order to ensure that the little alien's usually profound messages r...
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Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems
Some patches for Linux 6.15-rc4 (updating the kernel driver for the Bcachefs file system) triggered some "straight-to-the-point wisdom" from Linus Torvalds about case-insensitive filesystems, reports Phoronix.
Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet started the conversation, explaining how some buggy p...
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iPad Jammed in Seat Forces Emergency Landing of Airplane Carrying 400 Passengers
An anonymous reader shared this report from Business Insider:
A Lufthansa flight carrying 461 passengers had to divert after someone's tablet became "jammed" in a business-class seat.
The Airbus A380 took off from Los Angeles on Wednesday, bound for Munich, and had been flying for around three ho...
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