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Within the sport of adjusting to those new types of chaos, some are higher positioned than others. Typically strain is much less on privately owned firms that wouldn’t have to publish revenue targets. Ikea, as an example, has modified tack. As a substitute of setting out particular targets for the yr, it has a set of “eventualities” to provide the enterprise wiggle room because the outlook modifications. It means acknowledging that broadly completely different outcomes are attainable. - FT
People: In-flight rawdogging (SFW!). FabCities. North Korea hair business. Weed use in france - reaches 50% of 18-64. French newspaper in the 18th, and werewolves. Books edge indexing.
Tech: Fictitious law firms attack crytocurrency scams victims. Polyfill supplychain attack. More than Ikea, uncertainty in decision-making. Clothing for privacy. Anti RF clothing grows.
Denmark introduces livestock carbon tax.
Random: the Talweg. Glacier flour for good looking prints. A robot face, made of human foreskin - WTF, really. Frog saunas.
Futures: “Assembling tomorrow(s)”. A zine from the Sustainable Futures Lab (PDF example). EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative, Tech Radar.
AI: AI-deepfaked “trompe l’oeil” clothes. Cost of AI training over time. “Future you” - MIT lets you talk with your future self. Fake politics influencers.