Samsung's bonus deal is fueling employee resentment over a 100x payout gap between memory division staff and those making smartphones, TVs, and home appliances (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

We’ve been living through an extravagant “Let them eat cake” time, a gilded age of tech robber barons who are swinging to precarious heights. At the same time, I’m feeling (are you feeling it?) invisible revolutions forming in hearts everywhere. Nothing has changed, but everything is changing.
https://salrandolph.substack.…

Marie, Marie: The Invisible Revolutions of the Heart
We’ve been living through an extravagant “Let them eat cake” time, a gilded age of tech robber barons who are swinging to precarious heights.

50 years ago tonight, the #JerryGarcia band in #berkeley, a nice stereo audience tape, with keith godchaux’s piano on the left & garcia’s guitar on the right:

Filing: Samsung says it plans to spend ~$73.3B on capital expenditure and research in 2026, up from ~$60B in 2025, and pay ~$6.5B in regular dividends (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/samsung-electronics-plans-over-7…

I just came across "On encule le monde" by Les Guignols.
"We are the world" will never be the same anymore.

:neocat_flop:

This is a fascinating and beautifully illustrated analysis, exploring convincingly why birth rates are crashing basically everywhere and while there are certain many factors, the smoking gun is actually a smartphone.
So what to do about it? I think I agree with the conclusions, housing and financial support is one element, equality between sexes in household tasks certainly another, but finally, perhaps our job as parents is to inculcate the habit of socialising with others into our kids, especially when they get to the teenage years.
Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once - a limited 🎁 https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/8bf630d4-6e20-42c7-bb33-e98dd6a01571

I was one of Mega's earliest users, back when it still offered 50 GB for free. I've kept my account active just for this reason, and now I'm going to start using it.
For now, I'm syncing all my photos and videos to my Mega cloud using rsync. This way, I'm following the common-sense rule of keeping one copy locally (via Duplicati) and another remotely.
#backup

Hands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it's super impressive despite being very slow and failing at some tasks; it can order food, book Ubers, and more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/898282/gemini-task-automation-uber…

Gemini task automation is slow, clunky, and super impressive
Gemini’s task automation feature on the Samsung S26 and Pixel 10 series is an impressive glimpse at what the future of AI assistants could look like.

The incredible analytical work of John Burn Murdoch @… along with some other colleagues is one of the main reasons I subscribe to the FT. It's rather expensive but absolutely worth it.
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116582689708855765
Ruth_Mottram - This is a fascinating and beautifully illustrated analysis, exploring convincingly why birth rates are crashing basically everywhere and while there are certain many factors, the smoking gun is actually a smartphone.
So what to do about it? I think I agree with the conclusions, housing and financial support is one element, equality between sexes in household tasks certainly another, but finally, perhaps our job as parents is to inculcate the habit of socialising with others into our kids, especially when they get to the teenage years.
Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once - a limited 🎁 https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/8bf630d4-6e20-42c7-bb33-e98dd6a01571