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Somehow I just don’t feel good about flying in a Boeing plane anymore: Suicide Mission
https://prospect.org/api/content/fc3949f4-ec8b-11ee-a737-12163087a831/

Suicide Mission
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

Shawna pushed at tangled cables in the bedroom nook doubling as a home office, clearing a path behind her cuboid IKEA wardrobe. She brushed aside plain blue Zoom-call tops, a layer of Target knitwear, pushed firmly through flimsy '00s clubwear she'd never fit again. Back to the real world; "captchas", "Chat GPT", "President Trump", a fading bad dream. Logical, she thought - ornate Edwardian wardrobes lead to Narnia, misassembled IKEA wardrobes lead to c…

Peter Gabriel's complete catalogue, since 1977, is up on #Bandcamp - includes some German releases...
https://petergabriel.bandcamp.com/music

Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel is best known as a musician. He started his solo work in 1975 after leaving his old school group: Genesis. He has released eleven solo albums and written soundtracks for three films. Peter is now writing and recording, and working on a plan to create a streaming service for digital medicine and an Interspecies Internet.

A Negotiator's Backup Plan: Optimal Concessions with a Reservation Value
Tamara C. P. Florijn, Pinar Yolum, Tim Baarslag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19361

A Negotiator's Backup Plan: Optimal Concessions with a Reservation Value
Automated negotiation is a well-known mechanism for autonomous agents to reach agreements. To realize beneficial agreements quickly, it is key to employ a good bidding strategy. When a negotiating agent has a good back-up plan, i.e., a high reservation value, failing to reach an agreement is not necessarily disadvantageous. Thus, the agent can adopt a risk-seeking strategy, aiming for outcomes with a higher utilities. Accordingly, this paper develops an optimal bidding strategy called MIA-RVe…

That's good news for web apps. I was worried #Apple would stay the course out of stubbornness.
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/01/apple-…

I wish I could convey how awesome it could be to appreciate the come up to success it would be with other people instead of focusing on the people that disowned me and discarded me during my success. I'm on the way up and the following people have helped me: <null> Success is important, and I plan to take all of you people that have taken me up with me. <still null>

Sources: Sony made multiple filings in India to pull out a pact to merge its India operations with Zee Entertainment (Anto Antony/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-29/sony-is-said-to-have-wit…

Sony Is Said to Have Withdrawn Its India Merger Pact With Zee
Sony Group Corp. is said to have withdrawn the agreement to merge its India operations with Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. from a local company court, taking the final step in scrapping a two-year-old plan that sought to create a $10 billion media giant.

Klarna reports 2023 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$2.28B, a $241M net loss, down from $1.01B in 2022, with credit losses falling by 32% in 2023 to $369M (Financial Times)
https://t.co/NTUKa51q8c

That's good news for web apps. I was worried #Apple would stay the course out of stubbornness.
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/01/apple-…