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Analysis and links to articles on the big picture of the tech industry and the networked information economy. Author: Marcel Weiss is a writer, consultant and fighter for pareto-optima. He is thinking and linking in Berlin, Germany. contact: [email protected] Marcel Weiss on LinkedIn newnetland on Twitter Subscribe by e-mail to newnetland (E-mails go out weekly, on fridays.) try{ clicky.init(66617159); }catch(e){}

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"What if Our Problems Aren’t Tech Problems?"

“What if Our Problems Aren’t Tech Problems?”

Daniel Miessler danielmiessler.com: „ “Facebook is tearing us apart!”, they say. Well, no. What’s tearing us apart is exposing humanity to itself. More people seeing what others believe. More people seeing who others love. More people seeing how others behave. More people seeing who others are. That exposure brings out innate ugliness and innate negativity. Until 2010 or so that ugliness was…

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"We are not reaching 1.5ºC earlier than previously thought"

“We are not reaching 1.5ºC earlier than previously thought”

group RealClimate: “Despite upward adjustments of historical warming estimates by around 0.08ºC, the new IPCC report provides remarkably robust policy advice. The main temperature projections for the scenarios are similar under a like-with-like comparison, the remaining carbon budgets are very close to previously stated ones and our best estimate of when we experience 1.5ºC warming under a future…

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"The Digital Nomads Did Not Prepare for This"

“The Digital Nomads Did Not Prepare for This”

“Worldwide Tech” Nuzzel Newsletter by Marcel Weiss:

This is hilarious.

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"Various first words"

“Various first words”

Interconnected:

„ The first characters sent on ARPANET, the predecessor to the internet, by Charley Kline, 1969: lo – for “login,” but it crashed.“

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"Germany Drops Idea Of 'Pre-Flagging' Legal Uploads, Which Could Have Stopped EU Copyright Filters Blocking Memes, Parodies, Quotes And Creative Commons Material"

“Germany Drops Idea Of ‘Pre-Flagging’ Legal Uploads, Which Could Have Stopped EU Copyright Filters Blocking Memes, Parodies, Quotes And Creative Commons Material”

Glyn Moody Techdirt.:

„On the plus side, this flagrant omission could make it more likely that a legal challenge to the EU Copyright Directive at the EU’s top court — something that is bound to come — would be successful, and lead to Article 17 being struck down completely.“

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"A new normal"

“A new normal”

Seth Godin Seth Godin’s Blog on marketing, tribes and respect:

„But this, this moment of ours is now normal.

For now.

And then, there will be another normal.

There is no “the new normal”. Because that’s definitive.“

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"The US 2020 elections | The Economist"

“The US 2020 elections | The Economist”

Nuzzel Best of Economist:

„First, we only ask for your time when we have something worth saying. Second, the horse race is not everything.“

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"Wait, How Much Microplastic Is Swirling in the Atlantic?"

"Wait, How Much Microplastic Is Swirling in the Atlantic?"

Matt Simon at WIRED:

a city the size of Toronto flushes hundreds of billions of microfibers into the ocean each year.

So this research at the very least snaps in place a missing piece of the microplastic cycle puzzle: A whole lot of particles are swirling in the Atlantic, and scientists have already shown to be the case in the Pacific, as well: California’s famous Monterey Bay—a famous…

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"Will the coronavirus crisis finally spell the end of cash payments in Germany?"

“Will the coronavirus crisis finally spell the end of cash payments in Germany?”

Deutsche Welle: DW.com – Business:

yes, please

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"Car boom begins in China, with a wave of new electric cars about to roll out"

“Car boom begins in China, with a wave of new electric cars about to roll out”

Bradley Berman Electrek:

“The impacts of the pandemic are unpredictable. It’s concerning that Chinese car buyers are switching from public transit to personal vehicles.

However, that process was already underway. Now it appears to be accelerating. This is occurring just as production of new EVs from Tesla, Volkswagen, Byton, General Motors, and others, are ramping up. They are the best crop of…

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"Get Free Local COVID-19 Alerts with Inoreader"

“Get Free Local COVID-19 Alerts with Inoreader”

Inoreader Inoreader blog:

This is a great idea.

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"VW's Audi to cut one in ten jobs to fund shift to electric vehicles"

“VW’s Audi to cut one in ten jobs to fund shift to electric vehicles”

Reuters: Business News:

“Audi said it would cut up to 9,500 jobs, or 10.6% of its total staff by 2025, saving 6 billion euros ($6.61 billion), but also create up to 2,000 new positions in the areas of electric mobility and digitalization.”

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"It’s a bigger market than Windows, and while Microsoft doesn’t have the same dominant position, the opportunity is so large that it might not matter."

“It’s a bigger market than Windows, and while Microsoft doesn’t have the same dominant position, the opportunity is so large that it might not matter.”

Ben Thompson (paywall):

Nadella’s point is that by virtue of Tier 1 workloads increasingly running in the cloud, Microsoft (and AWS, etc.) can naturally participate and be paid for workloads that it previously didn’t participate in at all; it’s just like SQL Server being something an enterprise might pay for along with SAP’s offering, but now it applies to everything.

There is an even easier…

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"Coda’s programmable document editor comes out of beta, launches iOS app"

“Coda’s programmable document editor comes out of beta, launches iOS app”

TechCrunch:

You’re not going to use Coda, which was founded in 2017 and received funding from VC heavyweights like Greylock, Khosla Ventures and NEA, as a full-blown low code/no code service. It’s still a bit too limited for that. But you can use it to build your own custom inventory system, for example, or to build a basic CRM or to-do app that fits your specific needs. Or you could just use it…

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"Coasean Skies"

“Coasean Skies”

Alex Tabarrok at Marginal REVOLUTION, “Marginal REVOLUTION”: >

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"An egg is the most popular photo on Instagram. What’s that worth?"

“An egg is the most popular photo on Instagram. What’s that worth?”

An egg is the most popular photo on Instagram. What’s that worth? – Recode:

Lachtman thinks @world_record_egg could rake in as much as $250,000 to run a single ad to all of its followers if it decides to sell out. Others, like Sean Spielberg at Points North Group, an influencer marketing analytics company, think it could be even more.

“I think [they could sell an ad for] close to a million…

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"Thanks To Copyright, We Already Know How Aggressive Content Moderation Works: And It's A Disaster"

“Thanks To Copyright, We Already Know How Aggressive Content Moderation Works: And It’s A Disaster”

Mike Masnick at Techdirt:

If you give someone a tool to take down content, guess what they do with it? They take down content with it. They often don’t care — even a little bit — that they’re using the DMCA for non-copyright purposes. They just want the content to come down for whatever reasons, and the DMCA provides the tool. Imagine that, but on steroids, in other contexts.

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