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How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into "America's Semiconductor HQ", attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/features/825207/semiconduct…

The new silicon valley (literally)
The US wants to make its own chips again. Will it bring back manufacturing jobs? Or guzzle up too much water in the desert? Can the semiconductor industry avoid repeating the same mistakes it made in Silicon Valley?  

email_company: Manufacturing company email (2010)
A network of emails among employee email addresses at a mid-sized manufacturing company. Each directed edge represents an email sent from address i to address j. Edges are timestamped, and occurred over a 6 month period in an unspecified year.
This network has 167 nodes and 82927 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

_Außerdem hätten einige Kommunen „Gratulationssatzungen, in denen es die nötigen Informationen dazu gibt“._
Wenn ich sowas lese, freue ich mich, hier zu leben :)
In der #Mainpost kann Mensch heute lesen, wie #Bürgermeister*innen korrekt gratulieren. Gut wenn Amtsträger*innen das …

Würzburg/Schweinfurt : Geburtstagsgrüße vom Bürgermeister: Darf die Gemeinde ohne Zustimmung öffentlich gratulieren?
Wie und wann dürfen Gemeinden Geburtstage veröffentlichen? Drei Bürgermeister aus Unterfranken erklären das Vorgehen zwischen Tradition und Datenschutz.

“Additional direct manufacturing costs do not fully explain the higher prices of electric cars outside China. [..] in Germany, the retail price difference is more than double the manufacturing cost difference.”
https://www.iea.org/reports/what-next-for-the…

Executive summary – What Next for the Global Car Industry – Analysis - IEA
What Next for the Global Car Industry - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

"Housing (for) a Post-Growth World: A Manifesto"
#degrowth

Housing (for) a Post-Growth World: A Manifesto
Providing housing for all is central to building any future.

"The [resonant computing] Manifesto promises to fix everything that’s wrong on the internet right now. But you look at the authors and the signers, you’ll see the same guys who caused the present problems. These guys made it rich on the Torment Nexus and they’re now claiming they can fix it."
(Original title: The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys)

The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys
Back in the 1990s, in the first flowering of the World Wide Web, the Silicon Valley guys were way into their manifestos. “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”! The “Cluetrain Manifesto!…

"A Memphis woman was arrested after she refused AT&T fiber optic installation"
I don't think it's unreasonable to tell a utility crew you don't want a handhole in your yard. Obviously this doesn't scale (they have to put them somewhere) but arresting people over this is silly.

Memphis woman describes arrest after fiber installation dispute
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis woman was arrested after she refused AT&T fiber optic installation; she’s now out of jail and ready to share her side of the story. WREG Katelyn Barker learned …

Israeli startup Claroty, which makes security tech for hospitals, manufacturing, and industrial systems, raised a $150M Series F, sources say at a $3B valuation (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/syuo0xklwe

Claroty raises $150 million at a $3 billion valuation as cyberattacks on infrastructure surge
Israeli cybersecurity firm cites rising attacks on hospitals and industrial systems.  

Sources: the US has probed whether the products of China's Bitmain, which sells most of the world's Bitcoin-mining machines, pose risks of espionage or sabotage (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-21/chi…