20230122

For once, starting with a visual instead of a picture. Worth it.

Networks of global risks, big on social cohesion, state collapse, and supply chain failures. From the Global risks report.

• Business: Amazon is a lending bank to its sellers. Hotel workers shortage and robots. Drone defense raises money. Marvel comics and investors. News on John Deere and the Right to repair. The end of spare parts? Single-threaded leadership. Supply-chain history, 3000y ago. 2022 best architecture pictures. Echography and stethoscopes.

• Digital reinvention: Law firms and Digital reinvention. Virtual persons - now “AI interns”. Make up a guy. Algorithmic Impact Assessment (and its definition). Dutch gov had to open their digital identification app.

• Short term: Amazon fires 18k. Google, 12k, and MSoft, 10k.

• AI: AI an Imagination Roulette. Vall.e & scammers. Following early mention, ChatGPT and Mental health - a complex relationship - including journaling.

• Random: Earth-Water real-life wizard. Good read: Recipes for systemic changes (PDF). Life in a seawater drop.

Next generation global risks from the global risks report.