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 S4133 Years Later, 'Rick and Morty' Parodies One of the Best Sci-Fi Movies Ever Made   Quick! What’s the best science-fiction movie ever made? If the first title that came to your mind was The Matrix or Jurassic Park or 2001: A Space Odyssey or The Thing you’re definitely not wrong — this is a totally subjective question, after all — but there’s no denying that high up on the list of best sci-fi ever sits the 1990 pulp classic Total Recall.So it may come as a surprise that Rick and Morty, a show known for its sci-fi parodies, has never taken aim at the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic. Until now.
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S2The AI Hype Cycle Is Distracting Companies  Machine learning has an “AI” problem. With new breathtaking capabilities from generative AI released every several months — and AI hype escalating at an even higher rate — it’s high time we differentiate most of today’s practical ML projects from those research advances. This begins by correctly naming such projects: Call them “ML,” not “AI.” Including all ML initiatives under the “AI” umbrella oversells and misleads, contributing to a high failure rate for ML business deployments. For most ML projects, the term “AI” goes entirely too far — it alludes to human-level capabilities. In fact, when you unpack the meaning of “AI,” you discover just how overblown a buzzword it is: If it doesn’t mean artificial general intelligence, a grandiose goal for technology, then it just doesn’t mean anything at all.
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S35 Ways to Future-Proof Your Career in the Age of AI  What can we do personally to stave off the displacement that may happen as a result of AI? In this article, the authors offer five strategies to future-proof your career in the age of intelligent machines: 1) Avoid predictability. It’s important to remember that AI isn’t generating new insights; it’s a prediction engine that merely guesses the most likely next word. 2) Hone the skills that machines strive to emulate. 3) Double down on “the real world.” 4) Develop your personal brand. 5) Develop recognized expertise in your field. Even if AI performs “first draft” functions, it still has to be double-checked by a trusted and reliable source. If that’s you, you’ll continue to be sought out because you have the authority to vet AI’s responses.
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S44 Areas of Cyber Risk That Boards Need to Address  In our technology-dependent society, the effectiveness of cyber risk governance of companies affects its stock prices, as well as short-term and long-term shareholder value. New SEC cybersecurity rules provide a solid basis for transparency. Unfortunately, monitoring the long-term effectiveness of a cyber risk management strategy is not easy to grasp. This article provides four critical areas investors should be informed about for evaluating its long-term effectiveness.
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S5 The Rise of Connector Roles in Data Science  Our special report on innovation systems will help leaders guide teams that rely on virtual collaboration, explores the potential of new developments, and provides insights on how to manage customer-led innovation.Our special report on innovation systems will help leaders guide teams that rely on virtual collaboration, explores the potential of new developments, and provides insights on how to manage customer-led innovation.For all of the current focus on using data, analytics, and AI to improve organizational decisions and operations, too many data science projects fail. Even for those that succeed, progress is often slow and expensive. Why? Organizational gaps between teams are wreaking havoc with the ability to develop, apply, and scale data science projects. A new type of role is needed to bridge these gaps.
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S6The major factors driving up the prices of US wine  Around the world, wine prices have been rising. Imbibers in the US – the largest wine-consuming country in the world – are especially feeling the price squeeze on certain domestic bottles. "There's been kind of an unprecedented move upward in price recently," says Andrew Adams, editor of Wine Business Analytics.An inflation economy certainly plays a role; prices are, of course, rising across the board on all sorts of goods and services. But Adams and other wine-industry experts also point to other factors, including broader international economic concerns, restrictive pricing mechanisms in the US and extreme weather, all combining to drive up prices of wine and even leave many aspects of the industry's future uncertain.
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S7Uncover Copenhagen's best New Nordic restaurants (beyond Noma)  A visit to Copenhagen wouldn't be complete without getting a taste of its thriving food scene. Scandinavia's culinary capital is home to 14 Michelin-starred restaurants, among them gastronomic titans like world-famous Noma and theatrical wonder The Alchemist – and it's almost impossible to mention the local cuisine without uttering "New Nordic" in the same breath.This is all the more astonishing given that only two decades ago, Denmark was better known for pork meatballs and curried herring. That all changed when the New Nordic Kitchen Manifesto was drawn up in 2004, championing modern cooking that's rooted in local, seasonal and organic ingredients – an ethos that countless Scandinavian kitchens have embraced ever since.
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S8Doctor Who: The Star Beast spoiler-filled review - this 'epic, action-packed' episode finds the show on top form again  Yes it's a show about time travel. But viewers of the Doctor Who 60th anniversary special The Star Beast – the first of three extended episodes leading up to the debut of 15th Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa, at Christmas – could be forgiven for feeling like they too have fallen through some portal leading back in time. It's not just that David Tennant, perhaps the most successful Doctor of the modern era and certainly its first rock-star, heartthrob leading man, is back as the wandering Time Lord, with Catherine Tate as his plain-speaking companion/foil Donna Noble. Nor that Russell T Davies, the showrunner who regenerated the dormant series with huge success back in 2005, has returned too. Both were surprise hires, especially the signing of Davies which some fans likened to Steve Jobs returning to restore order to a chaotic and failing Apple Computer in 1997. Never before has Doctor Who called in past favourites to restore the show during one of its periodic slumps.
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S10Government provides $255 million to boost resources to monitor released immigration detainees  The Albanese government, still struggling with the fallout from the High Court decision forcing the release of immigration detainees, is allocating $255 million to beef up resources to keep tabs on them. So far, 141 people have been released. The government has not said how many are wearing monitoring devices. It is not clear whether more people will be released and if so, how many. A total number of 340 has been referred to as being those potentially eligible for release.
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S11Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand all felt 'different' in the world - and changed the way we think  The “actual impulse of astonishment” that sparks all philosophising is “honest bafflement that other people live as they do,” writes Wolfram Eilenberger in his new book, The Visionaries.It’s a wild ride through ten of the worst years in the 20th century, spanning the period from 1933, the year Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, to 1943 and the thick of the second world war. It’s told through the occasionally intersecting lives of four brilliant young women philosophers: Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil (both French), Russian-American Ayn Rand, and German-Jewish Hannah Arendt, who spent time exiled in France and New York.
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S12Casual, distant, aesthetically limited: 5 ways smartphone photography is changing how we see the world  Smartphones are a staple of modern life and are changing how we see the world and show it to others. Almost 90% of Aussies own one, and we spend an average of 5.6 hours using them each day. Smartphones are also responsible for more than 90% of all the photographs made this year. Before the first smartphone camera was released in 2007, cameras were used more selectively and for a narrower range of purposes. You might only see them at events like weddings and graduations, or at tourist hotspots on holidays.
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S13S14Green growth or degrowth: what is the right way to tackle climate change?  Nearly all the world’s governments and vast numbers of its people are convinced that addressing human-induced climate change is essential if healthy societies are to survive. The two solutions most often proposed go by various names but are widely known as “green growth” and “degrowth”. Can these ideas be reconciled? What do both have to say about the climate challenge?The crude version of green growth – the solution that dominates the discourse of developed countries – is essentially that technology will save us if we get the incentives right. We can stick with the idea that economic growth is the central determinant of human flourishing, we just need technological fixes for unsustainable industrial practices. These will emerge if we get prices pointing in a green direction, which is first and foremost about carbon taxes.
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S15Think potholes on our roads are getting worse? You're right - and here's why  If you’re a driver, particularly in the country, you could be forgiven for thinking potholes have become a design feature of Australia’s local roads.You would certainly know they are in a state of disrepair. And you have every reason to be fed up, because bad roads are dangerous, they increase your travel time, and they force you to spend more on fuel and on car maintenance.
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S16S17Gender-based violence: Teaching about its root causes is necessary to address it  In 2022, 184 women and girls were killed by violence in Canada. This number has steadily increased in each of the past three years; 148 women and girls were killed in 2019, 172 in 2020 and 177 in 2021.There were 6,423 incidences of anti-2SLGBTQIA+ protests and online hate in Canada in the first three months of 2023 alone. Expressions of hate toward trans and non-binary people and 2SLGBTQIA+ people more broadly have been rising.
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S18Responsible ESG investing in the Global South requires overcoming the Global North's saviour complex  ESG standards (Environment, Social and Governance) are metrics designed to guide responsible investing. The “S” in ESG has evolved into the financial innovation of social impact investing (SII), which promotes social benefits such as environmental protection, gender equality and human development, and also generates profits for beneficiaries and investors.ESG was co-opted into the culture wars when conservative politicians became concerned that businesses had become too focused on progressive social issues.
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S19Here's why union support is so high right now  Over 65,000 teachers in Québec could remain on strike until Christmas if a deal isn’t reached, their union said on Sunday. The warning comes amid widespread labour unrest in the province, including nearly 570,000 workers on strike at the same time last week.These collective actions are on the heels of the recent “summer of strikes,” that saw a number of labour actions take place, including the Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes, the United Auto Workers’ strike and a number of Starbucks strikes. In Canada, port workers in British Columbia, workers from Ontario’s public broadcaster, and city workers in Saint John also held strikes.
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S20Labor loses four points in two Newspolls to slump to a 50--50 tie  Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne A federal Newspoll, conducted November 20–24 from a sample of 1,216, had Labor and the Coalition tied at 50–50 after preferences, a two-point gain for the Coalition since the previous Newspoll three weeks ago. Primary votes were 38% Coalition (up one), 31% Labor (down four), 13% Greens (up one), 6% One Nation (steady) and 12% for all Others (up two).
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S21S22Why redefining the Treaty principles would undermine real political equality in NZ  All three parties in New Zealand’s new coalition government went into the election promising to diminish various Māori-based policies or programs. But it was the ACT Party that went furthest, calling for a referendum to redefine the “principles” of te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi.The referendum didn’t make it into the coalition agreement, but National and New Zealand First have agreed to a Treaty Principles Bill going to a select committee for further consideration.
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S23What is the 'sunk cost fallacy'? Is it ever a good thing?  Have you ever encountered a subpar hotel breakfast while on holiday? You don’t really like the food choices on offer, but since you already paid for the meal as part of your booking, you force yourself to eat something anyway rather than go down the road to a cafe.Economists and social scientists argue that such behaviour can happen due to the “sunk cost fallacy” – an inability to ignore costs that have already been spent and can’t be recovered. In the hotel breakfast example, the sunk cost is the price you paid for the hotel package: at the time of deciding where to eat breakfast, such costs are unrecoverable and should therefore be ignored.
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