@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-27 16:41:20
A study finds that foreign direct investment accounts for 98% of Vietnam's electronics exports, "signaling limited technology spillovers" to the local economy (Lien Hoang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-10-28 08:50:42
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-26 00:01:24
Mamdani economic advisor is reparations activist who says 'devaluation of Black lives' ingrained in US system (Alec Schemmel/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mamdani-economic-advisor-reparations-activist-who-says-devaluation-black-lives-ingrained-us-system
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p122#a251125p122
@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-25 16:26:32
Israeli Assault Has Plunged Gaza Into Worst Economic Collapse Ever Recorded: UN Report | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-gaza-economic-collapse
@_tillwe_@mastodon.social2025-10-27 06:50:19
Bin ja gespannt, ob das Problem der schwebenden Menüleiste in der Mastodon-Webapp unter ios26 jetzt tatsächlich gefixt ist, oder ob es nur ein Zufall ist, dass das Menü heute unten bleibt, wo es soll, und nicht wie in den letzten Tagen mitwandert.
(Update: es war wohl nur ein Zufall ...)
(Update zum Update: reproduzierbar ist anfangs alles gut, nach dem Posten des ersten eigenen Beitrags löst sich das Menü und wandert mit.)
@rigo@mamot.fr2025-09-28 08:14:54
@… reports that delivery drones invade the sky of Dublin.
And I thought: That's the solution against Russian drones. If the sky is jammed with commercial delivery drones, the military drones will collide with one or two of them and vanish. Win-win-win for the Commission: The drone wall, Innovation, economic prosperity!!
😜
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-10-20 19:28:37
Five crucial Earth systems near a tipping point: Report https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/five-crucial-earth-systems-near-a-tipping-point-report/
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-25 07:35:47
US will focus on exerting economic pressure on Venezuela: Report | US-Venezuela Tensions News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/25/us-will-focus-on-exerting-economic-pressure-on-venezuela-report?traffic_source=rss
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-12-20 23:22:58
So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-20 14:25:46
IAB: ad spend in the creator ecosystem in 2025 is expected to rise 26% YoY to $37B, vastly outperforming ad spend in media overall, set to grow 5.7% YoY (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creator-economy-ad-spend-37-billion-for-2025/
