2023-01-30

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The Coming "Symbolic Analyst" Meltdown

Unlike laid-off autoworkers, laid-off journalists have (or had, pre-Musk) the clout to get Twitter to ban people who made fun of their misfortune. Journalists, artists, advertising copywriters, and other symbolic analysts – even coders, perhaps – are much more likely than plumbers or welders to have parents and grandparents and siblings with political connections. They will have the ears of legislators, and of those remaining symbolic analysts who haven’t been replaced yet, but have reason to worry.

When autoworkers lose their jobs, their families care. When journalists lose their jobs, you will be made to care.
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Mysterious 'whirlpool' appears in the night sky above Hawaii

Lowe's pioneers system to solve organized retail crime

Over the last 12 to 18 months, Lowe's Innovation Labs has been testing out the system which utilizes RFID [Radio Frequency Identity] chips, scanners and blockchain. To work, manufactures would first have to embed a wireless RFID (Radio Frequency Identity) chip into a power tool product. The chip is already pre-loaded with the items serial number. It is also embedded in the box’s barcode. The product is set to inoperable up until the moment the customer pays for it. An RFID scanner at the register would then read the chip and activate the tool for use.