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The Work You Do, the Person You Are - The New Yorker (No paywall)
 All I had to do for the two dollars was clean Her house for a few hours after school. It was a beautiful house, too, with a plastic-covered sofa and chairs, wall-to-wall blue-and-white carpeting, a white enamel stove, a washing machine and a dryer—things that were common in Her neighborhood, absent in mine. In the middle of the war, She had butter, sugar, steaks, and seam-up-the-back stockings.
Part of my pride in working for Her was earning money I could squander: on movies, candy, paddleballs, jacks, ice-cream cones. But a larger part of my pride was based on the fact that I gave half my wages to my mother, which meant that some of my earnings were used for real things—an insurance-policy payment or what was owed to the milkman or the iceman. The pleasure of being necessary to my parents was profound. I was not like the children in folktales: burdensome mouths to feed, nuisances to be corrected, problems so severe that they were abandoned to the forest. I had a status that doing routine chores in my house did not provide—and it earned me a slow smile, an approving nod from an adult. Confirmations that I was adultlike, not childlike.
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WorkBMW, Toyota aim to make hydrogen-powered EVs mainstream with partnership - mint (No paywall) The German carmaker said Thursday that it will release hydrogen-powered versions of one of its existing model lines in 2028 as part of its strategy—which Toyota shares—to broaden its reach with various fuel types. BMW and Toyota’s hydrogen cars will use powertrains, which contain the engine and transmission, developed in tandem by the companies, according to a joint statement. Work
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WorkThe information wars are about to get worse, Yuval Harari argues - The Economist (No paywall)“Let Truth and falsehood grapple,” argued John Milton in Areopagitica, a pamphlet published in 1644 defending the freedom of the press. Such freedom would, he admitted, allow incorrect or misleading works to be published, but bad ideas would spread anyway, even without printing—so better to allow everything to be published and let rival views compete on the battlefield of ideas. Good information, Milton confidently believed, would drive out bad: the “dust and cinders” of falsehood “may yet serve to polish and brighten the armory of truth”. Work
WorkHow to Lead Like a Coach - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)The modern workplace demands that executives move away from a command-and-control style and instead adopt a model based on the idea of the leader as a coach. Companies have devoted extensive resources to this effort, in the form of time-intensive training programs and expensive new technologies, but without great success. In this article, the authors draw on their experiences as behavioral scientists and propose a simpler, cheaper, and more-effective approach: Help leaders identify interactions that they’re already having with their employees and work to transform them into coaching moments. Work
WorkWorkHealthy People/Healthy Planet - Discover Magazine (No paywall)Keeping people healthy also means keeping our environment free of pollutants and limiting our exposure to disease-causing microbes. Here we highlight projects that need your help researching and improving human and environmental health. Try one or all of them this month, as we commemorate Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, Pollution Prevention Week (Sept. 15th-21st), World Water Monitoring Day (September 18th) and National Eye Health Week (September 23rd-29th).
WorkWorkAnimal testing, explainedIndependent journalism is more important than ever. Vox is here to explain this unprecedented election cycle and help you understand the larger stakes. We will break down where the candidates stand on major issues, from economic policy to immigration, foreign policy, criminal justice, and abortion. We’ll answer your biggest questions, and we’ll explain what matters — and why. This timely and essential task, however, is expensive to produce.
WorkInside the Rise of Bitcoin-Powered Pools and BathhousesThe scene inside Bathhouse, a spa in Manhattan, is one of complete serenity. Visitors recline in 105-degree pools, surrounded by cedar tiles and elegant marble slabs from Brazil. But just beyond closed doors, in harshly-lit back rooms, an unexpected source helps forge the bliss: rows and rows of continuously-running Bitcoin mining computers. WorkOnlyFans owner paid 359m dividend as company's revenues grow 20% in a yearOnlyFans was founded in 2016 by the then 33-year old British entrepreneur Tim Stokely, who was joined by his father Guy, a former banker, as a director. The business was sold to Radvinksy for an undisclosed sum in 2018 and saw its revenue boom during the coronavirus pandemic, making it one of the UK's most successful tech startups - paying $149m in corporation tax to the Treasury last year. 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You’ll learn why the next generation of AI isn’t just about better algorithms but about the smart, seamless flow of data that fuels them. And you can engage with the very people who are building the tools and frameworks that will power our data-driven future. WorkWorkWorkWorkTSMC's Arizona Trials Put Plant Productivity on Par with TaiwanThe go-to chipmaker for Apple Inc. and Nvidia Corp. originally planned to have its first Arizona plant start full production in 2024, but pushed back the target to 2025 due to a lack of skilled workers. The delay fueled concerns that the company might not be able to make chips in the US as efficiently as in Taiwan. WorkUS IRS enforcement efforts recover $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes, Treasury says\"During the previous (Trump) administration, as audit rates on high-income taxpayers fell, the share of audits on taxpayers with incomes under $200,000 increased,\" Yellen said in remarks to be delivered at an IRS service center in Austin, Texas. \"In 2019, the top one percent of Americans was estimated to owe over one-fifth of unpaid taxes, leaving ordinary Americans to shoulder the burden.\" WorkPalantir, Dell Among New S&P 500 Members as Index RebalancesInclusion in the US equity benchmark can elevate a company’s profile and is becoming more important as passive investment funds grow. Expulsion from the benchmark can weigh on stock prices, as index funds sell shares to realign with the S&P 500’s new composition. WorkMy Audience with the Pope, by David Sedaris - The New Yorker (No paywall)If you were to say to me, “You can be in a room with either Chris Rock or the Pope,” I’d say, “Chris Rock, please.” Nothing against the Pope, but he’s never made me laugh. Neither has he come up with a viable solution to America’s gun problem the way Chris Rock has, saying that the firearms themselves can be unregulated but that every bullet should cost five thousand dollars. WorkWorkNewsom Vetoes Home-Buying Assistance for Undocumented ImmigrantsHome loans to undocumented people living in the United States are legal but rare. However, California Democrats have pointedly sought to remove immigration status as a condition of receiving a number of state benefits, including health insurance, college financial aid and, most recently, campus jobs at state-funded universities. WorkHarris's Debate Tutor: A Lawyer Unafraid of Telling Politicians Hard TruthsWhen she is not preparing top Democrats for debates — in addition to her four previous cycles of involvement at the presidential and vice-presidential level, she has worked with Senators Mark Warner of Virginia and Cory Booker of New Jersey — Ms. Dunn is a top lawyer for some of America’s leading technology firms. WorkWorkThe IRS got $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from rich AmericansThanks to the IRA, the IRS said it has been able to modernize 65-year-old technology and launch more digital tools in the last two years than in the previous two decades. That includes the Direct File program, which lets people electronically file their taxes directly to the government for free. It was piloted in a limited number of states last year and will be rolled out in all 50 states for next year’s tax season. WorkWorkStock Slide as Investors Wrestle With Shifting Bets on Rate CutsInvestors appear keen not to sacrifice gains made earlier in the year by betting that the rally could still inch a little higher: An August survey of fund managers by Bank of America showed that while most still expect the economy to keep growing as the Fed lowers interest rates, the level of concern over a misstep by the central bank is high. WorkMichael Lerner, 81, Is Dead; Founder of a Combative Jewish MagazineBut Rabbi Lerner continued to be concerned about what he called America’s “ethical and spiritual crisis” and the “desire for meaningful connection.” That concern was the focus of his book “The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism,” published in 1996. WorkAn Agonizing Dilemma: When Obesity Prevents a Joint ReplacementLess than half of orthopedic surgeons in a survey published last year said they would operate on a patient with a B.M.I. over 40 — more than 22 million American adults fell into that category in 2017-18. Only 11 percent would operate on one of the 3.9 million Americans with a B.M.I. over 50. And patients with a B.M.I. over 55 would be rejected almost everywhere. Just 3 percent of U.S. orthopedists would operate. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkS&P slumps to worst week in over 1-1/2 years amid September blues, growth concernsTurning to the weekly performance of the S&P 500 (SP500) sectors, nine of the 11 ended in the red. Technology topped the losers with its 7.1% plunge. Consumer Staples and Real Estate were the two gainers. See below a breakdown of the performance of the sectors as well as their accompanying SPDR Select Sector ETFs from August 30 close to September 6 close: WorkWorkPerson in Missouri caught H5 bird flu without animal contact CNMN Collection WIRED Media Group © 2024 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Ars Technica Addendum. Ars may earn compensation on sales from links on this site. Read our affiliate link policy.Your California Privacy Rights | Do Not Sell My Personal Information The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast.Ad Choices |
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