Peggy Bridgeman at the left demonstrates to Ruth Harris the correct technique of welding. Today is Labor Day in the United States.
M. Marshall · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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Big companies no longer win by pleasing customers; they win by raising the cost of leaving and turning customers into hostages, which stifles competition, innovation, and jobs.
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Despite widespread fear that AI will replace jobs on a massive scale, data so far shows AI complements rather than substitutes human labor, and may even create more new jobs than it destroys.
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Though the VW Beetle was born from Nazi racist propaganda, it was rebranded after the war as a symbol of West Germany's economic miracle, its Nazi origins deliberately faded into an 'open secret'.
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Hollywood has twisted Haitian Vodou into dark magic and the zombie into a racist symbol, erasing the true history of slavery and colonialism behind it.
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A study of German farms shows that the economic benefits of organic farming mostly go to distributors, not farmers.
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The author argues that giving AI coding assistants production-level access is a reasonable risk-reward tradeoff as models improve, but isolation and least-privilege principles still matter.
