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Profile of The Solidarity Fund by Coworker, which donated $112,000 to 44 tech workers in $2,500 increments, with the goal of supporting labor organizing efforts (Chase DiFeliciantonio/San Francisco …)

Chase DiFeliciantonio / San Francisco Chronicle: Profile of The Solidarity Fund by Coworker, which donated $112,000 to 44 tech workers in $2,500 increments, with the goal of supporting labor organizing efforts  —  Otavio Camargo’s luck had run out, a few times.  Working as a mover for the startup Lugg, the cargo van he relied on

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Modern Tape Echo Made Easy

Modern popular music increasingly relies on more and more complicated and intricate equipment and algorithms to generate catchy tunes, but even decades ago this was still the case. The only difference between then and now was that most of the equipment in the past was analog instead of digital. For example, the humble tape echo

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[Thread] OnlyFans is banning sexually explicit content because new Mastercard rules, in force from October 1, make hosting such content prohibitively expensive (Post-Culture/@postcultrev)

Post-Culture / @postcultrev: [Thread] OnlyFans is banning sexually explicit content because new Mastercard rules, in force from October 1, make hosting such content prohibitively expensive  —  A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong, and the reality of it is a lot more damaging and concerning to both the livelihood of sex workers

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Sources detail how Jack Ma's relationship with China's leadership soured, as he failed to keep up with Beijing's shifting views and tuned out warnings for years (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources detail how Jack Ma’s relationship with China’s leadership soured, as he failed to keep up with Beijing’s shifting views and tuned out warnings for years  —  The billionaire entrepreneur matched the heights of America’s tech legends but failed to heed warnings that Chinese leader Xi Jinping still called the shots Sources

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How to Properly Clean a Gravestone

During the Victorian era, it wasn’t uncommon to take a leisurely Sunday stroll through your local garden cemetery—perhaps stopping for a picnic lunch. But for the most part (with a few exceptions, primarily in large cities) people don’t spend a lot of time hanging out in cemeteries anymore. With everything else going… Read more… How

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Q&A with Nick Shenkin, an SF-based FBI special agent, on warning big tech companies about economic espionage and IP theft by Russian and Chinese spies and more (Biz Carson/Protocol)

Biz Carson / Protocol: Q&A with Nick Shenkin, an SF-based FBI special agent, on warning big tech companies about economic espionage and IP theft by Russian and Chinese spies and more  —  When FBI special agent Nick Shenkin starts talking about spies in Silicon Valley, he’s not describing a James Bond movie … Q&A with

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Keep Scraps Around

When I’m building something, I like to have a decent-sized scrap pile on hand. Because when I’ve got to test something out — does this glue adhere to this fabric, how much force will this hold if I tap it and put a screw in, will it snap if reinforced with carbon fiber and epoxy

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How a simple crystal could help pave the way to full-scale quantum computing

{$inline_image}Vaccine and drug development, artificial intelligence, transport and logistics, climate science — these are all areas that stand to be transformed by the development of a full-scale quantum computer. And there has been explosive growth in quantum computing investment over the past decade. Yet current quantum processors are relatively small in scale, with fewer than

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