#Data Historian Market industry

[nicklloydnow]

“‘The hope that political action will gradually humanise industrial society has given way to a determination to survive the general wreckage or, more modestly, to hold one’s own life together in the face of mounting pressures.” American historian and cultural critic Christopher Lasch’s pessimistic prognosis of the shifting relationship of individuals to society and to each other in The Minimal Self was published 40 years ago. It might have been written yesterday.

From the late 1970s, Lasch published a series of books, most notably The Culture of Narcissism, The Minimal Self and The Revolt of the Elites, that prefigured many contemporary debates, about culture wars, the rise of a “liberal elite”, the corrosiveness of individualism, the encroachment of the market into social life, the creation of a celebrity culture, the rise of a “therapeutic” mindset.

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For Lasch, the combination of consumer capitalism, competitive individualism and the abandonment by radicals of campaigns for material change in favour of demands for cultural transformation, had led to the emergence of a new narcissistic personality type. Lasch did not mean narcissism in the colloquial sense, such as a Trump-like figure, bursting with “self-centredness, boastfulness, feelings of entitlement and a need for admiration”, as one profile put it. Rather, drawing on psychoanalysis, Lasch was describing an individual who could not distinguish between themselves and the world beyond and so came to “see the world as a mirror, more particularly as a projection of one’s own fears and desires”.

It was a beleaguered self rather than an overbearing one. “The new Narcissus,” Lasch wrote, “gazes at his own reflection, not so much in admiration as in unremitting search of flaws, signs of fatigue, decay”, seeking “relief from the burden of selfhood”. He described people as increasingly yearning for contact and intimacy with others, yet fearful of the pain of engagement.

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Perhaps the current theme that speaks most to Laschian fears is the growing concern about what a report last year from the US surgeon general called “an epidemic of loneliness”, an alarming rise in the social disconnectedness of people. In Britain, Tracey Crouch was in 2018 appointed as Britain’s first minister for loneliness following a report from the Jo Cox commission on loneliness.

Against this background came a study last week that compared perceptions of loneliness among middle-aged people in the US and 13 European nations, examining data over the past two decades from surveys. It found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that Americans seemed the loneliest, followed by Britons. It is a finding that fits in with the general perception of Britain and the US as societies with the greatest stress on individualism and therefore more likely to nurture a sense of loneliness.

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There is a deeper issue, too: the tendency to individualise social issues, whether poverty or unemployment, to view them as psychological dispositions or even as moral failure. Loneliness, too, is frequently framed as a psychological condition, or mental health problem, the product of narcissism or self-obsession.

Forty years ago, Lasch was trying to show how social changes were distorting relationships, and to describe people’s attempts to negotiate a new world. But his psychoanalytical eye often overwhelmed his social vision and what many took from his work was less his social critique than his delineation of a new, narcissistic personality type. The end point of his analysis (the emergence of a public disconnected from one another and so more self-centred) became, instead, the starting point for explanation – that people’s narcissism and self-obsession explained their disconnectedness and the erosion of communal bonds.

This is even more true today. Too much of contemporary discussion about the impact of social and technological changes on people’s psychology – from the influence of social media on the wellbeing of the young to the effect of hyper-individualism on our sense of self – fetishises the psychology at the expense of social analysis. We look for loneliness inside our heads when its source lies all around us, in the destruction of collective life, the erosion of communal bonds, the ruin of civil society, the squeezing of public spaces. We could do with obsessing less about personality types than about the obsession with the psychological at the expense of the social.”

[adamsvanrhijn]

I'm sorry nobody knows what a tumblr job is

if you aren't missing a comma or a "but" there. thank u i love u

if i had unlimited characters and thought people would bother reading context associated with a poll, (i am pretty sure they usually do not) and also had some foresight about some of the specific things people would interpret differently than i intended, here's what this would have looked like:

[begin post]

[begin poll]

which of these listed tumblr job types is yours?

retail, grocery, consumer-facing service and sales (excludes call centers and food service)

food service (includes restaurants, cafes, coffee shops, bars, cafeterias, food trucks, commercial kitchens, food kitchens, etc; cooking + serving + hosting)

teacher, professor, tutor, teaching assistant, childcare provider, but not educational administrator, if you do another kind of education read the rest of the options first because one of them might be a better fit

engineer, developer, technical designer, data or computer scientist, not including technical writers

parks and wildlife, outdoor research, animal care (including animal boarding and veterinary care), animal keeping (such as zoos or aquariums), animal husbandry, farming, ranching, environmental conservation, gardener or plant nursery worker (but not florist), field archaelogist, equine therapist, outdoor camp counselor if you work with and have knowledge around plants and/or animals

librarian, archivist, docent, tour guide, curator, patron-facing researcher, consultant historian or sociologist, community educator at a cultural or knowledge (probably nonprofit) institution (including but not limited to historical reenactors); reception or guest services related to any of the previous, excepting food service, which is the food service option

writer - content, technical, proposal, marketing, fiction, nonfiction, educational, research, including editing, but has to be actively working and receiving pay from a company, an organization, and/or clients/commissioners including publications/publishers, even if income is inconsistent or not received at regular intervals. does not include captioning or transcription. translators use your best judgment

artist, illustrator, graphic designer, but has to be actively working and receiving pay from a company, an organization, clients/commissioners including publications and galleries, may include visual marketing but does NOT include ad sales, also does not include video editing unless you do like, speed paints or show off your art in videos

patient healthcare, caregiving, and advocacy. does not include animal care, pharmaceutical research or dispensing, or medical coding/billing

you are not currently working as / do not currently have any of the Tumblr Jobs listed above

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a "Tumblr Job" is decided based on the following criteria, which is based on my own dashboard/Tumblr experiences, and tumblr searches:

either many Tumblr users have or have had that job, OR, one to a few high-profile Tumblr users have or have had that job

posts are made about that job, either about the day-to-day work itself (positive or negative), as an appeal to authority ("librarian here!"), or about the concept and/or vibes of the job or having that job

posts are reblogged about that job, and reach an audience of people who do not have that job; posts go viral about that job, even

Tumblr users might aspire to have that job, or be studying toward it

it might require a high level of interest and/or personal investment with limited positions available, OR, it might be a very common job in the world

the job is NOT one that many Tumblr users would perhaps complain and/or rant and/or criticize about other people having

the job is NOT one commonly associated with things Tumblr tends to skew away from, like industries known to contribute to climate change or jobs that tend to be associated with ultra high earners with wealth inequality in the same industry (editing to plug my other poll that 6 & 7 apply to that nobody is taking)

a "Tumblr Job" is NOT just a job anybody on tumblr might have or even a job most people or many people on tumblr might have. it's not even a job that is necessarily common on tumblr (common on tumblr != common tumblr job), that's something i am interested in finding out via the poll.

just because tumblr users you know also have your job doesn't mean it Is a tumblr job. and just because your job type isn't listed doesn't mean it is Not a tumblr job. there are only 9 job hodgepodge types here. there are more jobs in the world than this and there are more tumblr jobs on tumblr than this. these are also not and are not intended to be standard industry classifications. they are grouped by tumblr vibes, not necessarily by job role or duties.

if you do not have a job at this time, you do not currently right now have one of the listed tumblr jobs. being unemployed or being a student, even if you once had one of these jobs or are studying to obtain one of these jobs, are not jobs for the purpose of this poll.

the purpose of the poll is to see how many respondents actually have and are doing these specific jobs that i have identified as "tumblr jobs". nothing more and nothing less!

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but nobody is gonna fucking read all that & tumblr polls have character limits. if the poll was as specific as i wanted it to be it would not have however many thousands of votes it currently has. curse of my autisms <3

[yournightowl]

Your NightOwl #042

If you were to plot the prevalance of organized crime across history, what would that graph look like?

My first instinct is to say that it should go from bottom left to top right- Pweople getting more crooked, more corrupt, everything going down the can as time goes on.(＃`Д´)

But after giving it a little more thought, (and after having eaten lunch,)amidst my newfound positivity i thought, "Couldn't it be just the opposite?" ♡( ◡‿◡ )

Crime gets harder and harder to get away with as technology improves- and improvements in how fast goods and information can travel helps make the global playing field getting more equal, if not less psychotically competitive.

And now, after having taken a nap

i realize neither are even close to correct. (￣□￣」)

Because crime, especially the large scale organized type, isn't influenced by technology or the progression of society- it's really only ever been dependent on economics.

The heyday, as it were, for organized crime came in the early 20th century- between wars and depressions and plagues and the stock market - we saw higher highs and lower lows than ever thought possible.

There were other blips on the radar after that of course- regime changes, speculative bubbles, empires falling and unions collapsing- but through it all, wherever the money went, crime followed soon after.

And it's no different in the 21st century.

Because even more important than the stock market or the price of grain in this conversation is the level of unemployment- which spiked massively in the 30's and 40's as early automated systems wiped out entire sectors.

The language models that passed for ear-tifical antelly-gents back then drove a spike between the haves and the have nots; paying one guy to scrape data from another guy's life's work, then training a bot on that data and firing the first two guys anyway. It was a shortsighted fool's goldrush where every middle manager on earth raced against each other to disprove their own relevance as fast as possible. (°ロ°) ! The global economy remodeled itself into a system based mostly on theft. So for your average unemployed joe shmoe, reselling tech that fell off the back of a truck must've seemed like the most honest work in the world. (^_<)〜☆

The inverted bubble didn't last. ヾ(￣◇￣)ノ〃 llms were eventually recognized as the technological dead end they always were, and "automatically generated" went from impressive to trendy to tacky to gross in just a few short years-

But the damage was done- the social contract between "job creators" and real human beings now had a big gash torn through it- and ever since, mom and pop mafias and grassroots mobsters have fiercely guarded the niche of the economy they tore out for themselves.

If you don't believe organized crime is just as real as ever, just try and introduce androids to a "close-knit" industry like shipping. They'll send your free trial bots back to you in a compact, melted-down cube of slag before the first shift even ends.

Now i don't condone that kind of thing. It's violent and immature, and they should take their frustration out on the people trying to replace them, not the bots they bring in to do the replacing.

But as somewhat of a historian, i can see the appeal.

friend of the family, your nightowl

[hydralisk98]

Building locations for the next revision of Angora?

Sidestream follow-up to this article thread:

As a hobby historian in the manifestation space, can't help but wonder about some alternate outcomes and manifest what seems most interesting and useful for me. And I have gotten a couple successes as I discovered new and old topics of interest fitting my wishes like "Pacific Cyber/Metrix", Glaxnimate, DEC Alpha AXP 3000's Turbochannel as a open bus standard, FSF+Symbolics shared history... which is really interesting and sweet to unravel!

Now, while I want to get started Vtubing soon, I got a couple life habits & lively essentials to fix first and foremost. But expect me to get started soon (hopefully...);

So yes, finally onto rebuilding theology through 16^12 Angora worldbuilding! My goal is to suggest and iterate (yet another) decent theological framework for biological & also machine sophonts (aka androids) out of researching existing systems, adding in some novelties worth exploring.

Either way, GDD dump for Angora in Môsi fork (with Borksy hacks?):

Media dump:

List of rooms, levels & locations for Angora:

Shoshone scroll library (bronze age period)

Contemporary public library

Pub

Arcade

Inn

Tavern

Public plaza

Market

Institute

Hospital

Lumber Mills

Walls

Commune of Hatriah?

Museums

Autel

Temples

Computer Lab

Cybercafes

Roads

Railways

Suspended Monorail

Commute by Tramways, Buses & Subways

Residences

Commerces

Industries

Farmland

Public Schools

Hotel

Bastion

Senate

House of Commons

Experts Council

Archives

Manor

Manufacture

Factory

University

Research Center

Medical Lab

Military Base

Arsenal

Communal data center

Video rental stores

Bookstores

Forested park

Rollers' skate park

Youth community center

Nuclear Powerplant

[...]

Kate & Ava's household

"Pinegroove" cityscape

"Black Bear" suburbia

"?" metropolis

"Maskoch" township

"Maynard" township

Mesa Laboratories

EBM, ICL, Tsunami Electrics, Bull...

Pacific Cyber Metrix, Pflaumen Cooperative (DEC+ZuseKG), Utalics Cooperative (Symbolics), GLOSS Foundation (FSF / GNU), Luna Macrotronics (Sun Microsystems);

Macroware (Microsoft, NeXT, Apple, Google, Minitel...)

Rajah Palace and their "forbidden city" courtroom

Hanging Gardens

Temple of Artemis

Super Mall "Nitta" Complex

Distant future "Iron Dusk of Time" (lucid dreamscape vision quest)

Pflaumen Cooperative (4408-4545) := Free Software Foundation (GLOSS Foundation, for the Libreware licensing), Symbolics (Commercial -grade / -tier LISP software & hardware accelerators), Digital Equipment Corporation (open industry-standard hardware in PDP8, Rainbow 100 & early Alfa series), Pacific Cyber Metrix (later Alfa, Beta & Gama series with Compact, Mobile & Ultra variants)... ?

Progressives: Syndicalists, (Geocenter) Greens, Harmonists;

Neue TurboChannel (as a consortium of GLOSS Foundation, Utalics, Pflaumen Cooperative put together) standards, LibreVast (Dreamcast+3DO+M2+Nuon...) home computer system with their own Nova modules (VMU+Sifteo... + Loopy with its Magical Shop addon?);

[visual-sculptors]

How Infographics Enhance Information Retention and Engagement

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[ausetkmt]

Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America

Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America

The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis.   In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white “new face” of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some argued that skyrocketing overdoses were “deaths of despair” signaling deeper socioeconomic anguish in white communities. Whiteout makes the counterintuitive case that the opioid crisis was the product of white racial privilege as well as despair.   Anchored by interviews, data, and riveting firsthand narratives from three leading experts—an addiction psychiatrist, a policy advocate, and a drug historian—Whiteout reveals how a century of structural racism in drug policy, and in profit-oriented medical industries led to mass white overdose deaths. The authors implicate racially segregated health care systems, the racial assumptions of addiction scientists, and relaxed regulation of pharmaceutical marketing to white consumers. Whiteout is an unflinching account of how racial capitalism is toxic for all Americans.

[ippnoida]

Jaipur BookMark puts spotlight on future of publishing

New technological advancements impacting publishing such as artificial intelligence (AI), podcasts, data analysis, and OTT were the focal points of discussion at the 11th edition of the Jaipur BookMark, held alongside the Jaipur Literature Festival from 1 – 5 February 2024 in Jaipur.

According to director, JBM Manisha Chaudhry, this year's Jaipur BookMark (JBM) looked at the future of the publishing industry and all important developments likely to impact publishing in the future. Sessions were also held alongside to mark the anniversaries of major publishing houses along with a Roundtable with 18 publishers from across the globe.

Chaudhry referred to a session on AI and the future of publishing that had Meru Gokhale, founder of Editrix.ai and former publisher at the Penguin Press Group; Charles Collier, a film, television and literary agent, producer, lawyer, and talent manager; and Safir Anand, intellectual property lawyer and brand strategist in conversation with Marcus du Sautoy, , Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. The session talked about the future of the publishing industry with AI entering the domains of editing, translation and audiobooks, how it will impact legal contracts in publishing, and who would be the owner of the intellectual property rights of books published with AI's help. All these concerns notwithstanding, there was some optimism about the potential of this technology.

Another session on podcasts and books included speakers Amrita Tripathi, founder-editor of The Health Collective, a resource on mental health and storytelling, Richard Osman, London-based author of The Thursday Murder Club, The Man Who Died Twice, and The Bullet That Missed; and William Dalrymple, historian, author and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival and moderated by Hemali Sodhi, founder of A Suitable Agency. The session explored the deep connections between podcasts and books, which is based on the coming together of voice and text. It explored the synergy between book podcasts and books and the publishing industry – how a high-quality podcast can connect listeners with an intimacy about the book, Chaudhry said. The session examined how publishing podcasts encourages listeners to read more books and help increase book sales.

A session on data analysis had panelists Vikrant Mathur of The Nielsen Report and Rick Simonson from Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Company in conversation with Hemali Sodhi. The session delved into the significance of data in the publishing industry in India, which is needed for a developing industry. The session focused on the Nielsen Report, which provides insights into the size of the Indian publishing market, along with recent trends and factors that are set to drive book publishing market growth in the upcoming years. The panelists advocated the collection of more data across the book publishing industry in India to project better results through data analysis.

Chaudhry talked about another 'crackling' session on the symbiotic relationship between OTT and publishing. Sahira Nair, content creator for Amazon Prime; Anish Chandy, founder – Labyrinth Literary Agency; Radhika Gopal, head – writers and directors, Tulsea; and Anand Neelakantan, author of the Bahubali trilogy, Asura: Tale of the Vanquished, Valmiki's Women, Vanara, Nala Damayanti, The Tale of the Flying Mountains, The Very, Extremely, and Most Naughty Asura Tales For Kids took part. The session was moderated by Ananth Padmanabhan, CEO – HarperCollins India. The panel took an outside-in view of book publishing from the eyes of leaders in the OTT space from speakers Neelkanthan, Gopal, Chandy and Nair, who are into writing and direction, OTT rights for book adaptations and content creation for OTT, respectively. The session talked about OTT's hunger for content, the sales of rights of books and contracts for content adaptations along with the steps that publishers can take to leverage old and new content for the OTT industry, she said.

Literary milestones for book publishers

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Another publishing house to celebrate a literary milestone was Seagull Books, Chaudhry said, with the Kolkata-based publishing house completing its 40 years in 2023. Seagull Books' Naveen Kishore shared insights about the publishing house creating books across borders and boundaries in a conversation with Sanjoy Roy, managing director of Teamwork Arts.

The Jaipur BookMark 2024 celebrated 40 years of feminist publishing in India, Chaudhry said, with feminist publishers Ritu Menon and Urvashi Butalia sharing insights on how Indian feminist publishing was associated with the women's movement in the country, making it a huge hit with the target population. When Butalia and Menon initially started with Kali for Women, there was debate over who was going to read these books in a country like India, Chaudhry recounted. But gradually, women's studies emerged as a sought-after discipline in activism as well as publishing. This marked the way for the establishment of a new kind of list, including feminist accounts, women writers and experiences of women at the grassroots level, which mainstream publishing houses would not think as viable products, she said. The session was interesting for women who have just entered the publishing industry in various roles.

Translations and multilingual publishing

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Another session on translations, Indian Literature: Across Languages, Across Scripts had Suchitra Ramachandran, writer and Tamil translator; Daisy Rockwell, Booker prize-winning translator of Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand; Sukrita Paul Kumar, poet and translator; and Mini Krishnan discussed and debated on the intricacies of translation. India has numerous languages and scripts and it takes great effort to translate the literary works from Indian languages into English. The session talked about the different aspects of translation, Chaudhry said, adding that each person's experience with translations is unique and they view it from their lens.

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In another session, Parminder Singh Shonkey, from Punjabi publishing house Rethink Foundation; Gita Ramaswamy, co-founder of the Telugu publishing house Hyderabad Book Trust; Ravi DeeCee; Kannan Sundaram from Kalachuvadu Publications; Shailesh Bharatwasi from Hindi publishing house Hind Yugm Publishers; and Esha Chatterjee, CEO of Bee Books and managing director of Patra Bharti, the third-largest Bengali publishing house discussed the landscape of Indian language publishing with Mita Kapur, founder and CEO of Jaipur-based literary agency Siyahi. The Telugu, Malayalam, Bangla, Tamil, Hindi and Punjabi publishers talked about the literary works that were gaining greater traction in their languages and discussed their lists, Chaudhry shared.

Educational Publishing on the path to growth

Chaudhry talked about the growth of educational publishing in India. The session on educational publishing had Atiya Zaidi, publisher at Ratna Sagar, discuss the importance of supplementary reading and the effect of the National Education Policy on academic publishing with Ananth Padmanabhan. The educational publishing sector, the session discussed, is the most profitable segment of publishing in India with a large population of school-going kids. The session talked about Collins – the educational publishing imprint of HarperCollins, and explored the common areas of interest between educational and trade publishing in India.

Another session had Neeraj Jain, managing director at Scholastic India; Nancy Silberkleit, one of the founders of Archie Comics Publications; and Prashant Pathak, director – publishing operations at Prakash Books and publisher at Wonder House Books discuss the relevance of picture books, which is one of the most important categories in Children's publishing as it is the starting point which develops an interest in books in young readers. The session was moderated by Kanishka Gupta, founder of literary agency Writer's Side. Silberkleit talked about the impact of graphic and illustrated comic books on children and how Archie Comics has created a place for itself in India over the years. Jain stressed on how picture books had been a gap area in Indian publishing and how Scholastic has helped bridge that gap, Chaudhry shared.

Another 'impactful' session Chaudhry talked about was the one between bestselling Tamil author Perumal Murugan, who has won several awards, including the JCB Prize for Literature 2023, and Swami Anandatheerthan Award, and his publisher Kannan Sundaram from Kalachuvadu Publications. The two have had a long-lasting relationship in publishing of over 20 years. The session was moderated by Kannada author Vivek Shanbhag, who brought out the little details and personal touches of this literary relationship and how it benefited both the publisher and the author, Chaudhry shared, adding Sundaram has made a mark in successfully presenting and marketing Murugan's work in the best possible manner.

In another session, Beauty and the Book, Sunandini Banerjee, senior editor and graphic designer at Seagull Books; Ahlawat Gunjan, creative head at Penguin Random House India; Philip Watson, from James & Hudson; Svein Størksen, Norwegian designer, illustrator, owner and editor of Magikon publishing; and Priya Kapoor, publisher at Roli Books talked about the allure of illustrated and design books. The session talked about how the book as an object of enduring beauty takes shape under the eye of designers and the creative process that makes the cover designs of books a sight to behold.

The Jaipur BookMark concluded with the Festival Directors' Roundtable on the last day in which lists and rights of 18 national and international publishers were discussed. “The Jaipur BookMark still focuses a lot on its core strength which is rights. This time we had a catalogue for rights, which had 50 books from 12 publishers representing five languages. Whether it was the generalist, or the specialist, JBM 2024 had something of interest for everyone,” Chaudhry concluded.

[shashikant-ligade]

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Software

Services

On the Basis of Deployment Mode this market is categorized further into-

Cloud-based

On-Premises

On the Basis of Organization Size this market is categorized further into-

Large Enterprises

SMEs

On the Basis of Industry Vertical this market is categorized further into-

Oil and Gas

Marine

Chemicals

Pharmaceuticals

Metals and Mining

Utilities

Data Centers

Others

Key regions Data Historian Market Research Report:

North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico)

Europe (U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Central & Eastern Europe, CIS)

Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, ASEAN, India, Rest of Asia Pacific)

Latin America (Brazil, Rest of Latin America)

The Middle East and Africa (Turkey, GCC, Rest of the Middle East and Africa)

Rest of the World

Author’s Bio:

Shashikant Ligade

Senior Analyst The Insight Partners

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Saturday, March 9, 2024

Amid explosive demand, America is running short on power (Washington Post) Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s creaking power grid. In Georgia, demand for industrial power is surging to record highs, with the projection of electricity use for the next decade now 17 times what it was only recently. Arizona Public Service, the largest utility in that state, is also struggling to keep up, projecting it will be out of transmission capacity before the end of the decade absent major upgrades. Northern Virginia needs the equivalent of several large nuclear power plants to serve all the new data centers planned and under construction. Texas, where electricity shortages are already routine on hot summer days, faces the same dilemma. “When you look at the numbers, it is staggering,” said Jason Shaw, chairman of the Georgia Public Service Commission, which regulates electricity. “It makes you scratch your head and wonder how we ended up in this situation. How were the projections that far off? This has created a challenge like we have never seen before.”

Big American companies benefit from Chinese ad spending spree (NYT) While the relationship between the U.S. and China remains contentious, the two superpowers are still as economically entangled as ever. Despite the U.S. military projecting a war with Beijing by 2027, a surprising new connection across the Pacific has developed in recent years—massive Chinese companies looking to gain a global customer base have begun shelling out billions of dollars to advertise through some of America’s largest tech companies like Meta and Google. Temu and Shein are some of China’s biggest overseas ad buyers. According to tracking services, Temu has bought over 1.4 million Google ads and has created 26,000 different ads on Meta platforms. Shein, a close competitor, has run tens of thousands of ads on Google alone. “What companies like Temu have done is really just open a fire hose of money that it is pouring into ads,” said one marketing analyst. What’s the reason behind this spike in sponsorships? “There’s a limit on the degree that a company can grow in China,” said one economic researcher, citing the fact that Chinese companies can face crackdowns if they run afoul of the state. “Xi Jinping is perfectly happy for Chinese companies to make money overseas as long as they toe the line within China.”

Honduran ex-president convicted of helping send tons of cocaine to U.S. (Washington Post) Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, a onetime American ally, was convicted in a New York court Friday of helping drug traffickers send tons of cocaine to the United States in exchange for hefty bribes that fueled his political career. Hernández was accused of using police and the military to guard U.S.-bound cocaine shipments, and of sharing sensitive U.S. law enforcement information with traffickers. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacob Gutwillig said Hernández “paved a cocaine superhighway to the United States.” Yet even as Hernández presided over what prosecutors called a “narco-state,” U.S. authorities continued to work closely with him. “How is it possible the U.S. government did not know this stuff was going on?” said Dana Frank, a historian and Honduras expert at the University of California at Santa Cruz. “They chose to look the other way.”

As gangs attack a critical port, ‘Haiti will go hungry soon’ (Washington Post) First the gangs blocked the roads to Haiti’s capital. Then they attacked the airport. Now they have breached the city’s main port, cutting off the capital from one of its last remaining lifelines for food and supplies as the country teeters toward collapse. On Wednesday night, dozens of gang members stormed the most important port terminal in Port-au-Prince, looting containers, damaging the port’s security apparatus and forcing the terminal to suspend its operations indefinitely. “Everything has stopped. Medical supplies, food cannot come to Port-au-Prince. Right now nothing can enter by sea, by air, or by road,” said one manager in the shipping sector, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak to reporters. “It’s a disaster. Hunger will be the next step.”

Young Europeans are embracing the far right. (Washington Post) The surprising voters driving the far right’s surge in Europe scrambled for selfies inside a suburban auditorium. Rita Matias, a 25-year old ultraconservative and social media influencer, had just called for migrant quotas and curbs on abortion in a political debate. Now, her more progressive opponents in staid blazers and pullovers watched like wallflowers as star-struck 18-year-olds jostled for photos with the young woman. “Are you a party member?” she asked one fan, who shyly shook his head. “No? Don’t worry. We’ll get you signed up.” On a continent better known for left-wing youth activism a la Greta Thunberg, polls show that young Europeans are fueling the growth of the far right from France to Sweden to the Netherlands. And in a year when former president Donald Trump is making a bid to take back the White House, multiple European governments may be headed for a rightward shift, propelled by voters in their late teens, 20s and early 30s. “The [mainstream] parties aren’t talking the language of the young, but these more radical parties are,” said Peter Kreko, director of Political Capital, a Budapest-based think tank. “They are channeling the disillusionment of young voters with politics.”

Mutual Frustrations Arise in U.S.-Ukraine Alliance (NYT) More than two years into their wartime alliance, the bond between the United States and Ukraine is showing signs of wear and tear, giving way to mutual frustration and a feeling that the relationship might be stuck in a bit of a rut. It is the stuff that often strains relationships—finances, different priorities and complaints about not being heard. For the Pentagon, the exasperation comes down to a single, recurring issue: American military strategists, including Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, believe that Ukraine needs to concentrate its forces on one big fight at a time. Instead, President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has vowed to drive Russia out of every inch of Ukraine, expends his forces in battles for towns that U.S. officials say lack strategic value. For its part, Ukraine is increasingly disheartened that American political paralysis has resulted in shortages of ammunition for troops on the front. As each day goes by without a fresh supply of munitions and artillery, and Ukrainian crews ration the shells they have, morale is suffering.

Crowdfunding, Auctions and Raffles: How Ukrainians Are Aiding the Army (NYT) Earlier this year, Daria Chervona, a photo retoucher from Kyiv, was busy trying to raise 78 million Ukrainian hryvnia, about $2 million, for Ukraine’s army, posting daily on social media to urge friends and acquaintances to chip in. That was a high bar, but after a few weeks she announced she had cleared it, reaching her target. Ms. Chervona attributes her success to a system she adopted last summer: dividing the work among dozens of people, each tasked with collecting money from friends, in a process that she said can yield large sums. Each fund-raiser is then highlighted in a social media post with their picture, tapping into civilians’ desire to be recognized as active participants in the war effort. Since the early days of the war, thousands of volunteers have led crowdfunding efforts that have been crucial in supplying the Ukrainian military with critical equipment. They have become part of Ukraine’s social fabric, with nearly 80 percent of the population now donating, according to a recent survey. They have held auctions, organized raffles and invited influencers to participate in promotional clips.

Settling For More Conflict (BBC) Israel has announced plans to build thousands of new houses in the occupied West Bank, expanding the country’s settlements in the West Bank, considered by most of the international community to be illegal. A total of 3,476 new settler homes were announced as part of the plans. “The enemies try to harm and weaken us but we will continue to build and be built up in this land,” wrote Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on X. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed his disappointment with Israel’s expansion plans, reiterating the White House’s position that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal.

Israeli tank ‘likely’ fired machine gun at reporters after deadly shelling, report finds (Reuters) An Israeli tank crew killed a Reuters reporter in Lebanon in October by firing two shells at a clearly identified group of journalists and then “likely” opened fire on them with a heavy machine gun in an attack that lasted 1 minute and 45 seconds, according to a report into the incident published on Thursday. The report, by the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)—which was contracted by Reuters to analyse evidence from the Oct. 13 attack that killed visuals journalist Issam Abdallah—found that a tank 1.34 km away in Israel fired two 120 mm rounds at the reporters. The first shell killed Abdallah, 37, and severely wounded Agence France-Presse (AFP) photographer Christina Assi, 28.

After months of warnings that Israel’s siege is causing famine, children begin to die in Gaza (AP) After months of warnings over the risk of famine in Gaza under Israel’s bombardment, offensives and siege, children are starting to die. Hunger is most acute in northern Gaza, which has been isolated by Israeli forces and has suffered long cutoffs of food supply deliveries. At least 20 people have died from malnutrition and dehydration at the north’s Kamal Adwan and Shifa hospitals, according to the Health Ministry. Most of the dead are children. Particularly vulnerable children are also beginning to succumb in the south, where access to aid is more regular. At the Emirati Hospital in Rafah, 16 premature babies have died of malnutrition-related causes over the past five weeks, one of the senior doctors told The Associated Press.

Palestinians struggle to connect and get news amid digital shutdowns in Gaza (Reuters) Internet service in Gaza has declined by 80 to 90% following the Israeli invasion, creating extreme challenges to sharing and receiving vital information. Because Israel controls internet infrastructure in Gaza, organizations that help communities in crisis navigate digital shutdowns say the usual workarounds aren’t effective. Adding to the challenge is the lack of functional devices such as phones or laptops as many residents have lost them while fleeing, or can’t charge them regularly. The primary source of news is now radio, and those with phones are turning to Telegram, where neighborhood-based channels are used to connect with loved ones and share vital updates.

Egypt Unlocks $8 Billion IMF Loan to Ease Crisis (Bloomberg) Egypt and the International Monetary Fund agreed to more than double the country’s rescue program to $8 billion, the culmination of recent global efforts to stabilize the cash-strapped regional linchpin squeezed by wars and inflation. The announcement followed swift moves earlier Wednesday to float the currency—tanking the pound as much as 38%—and hike interest rates by a record 600 basis points as the country led by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has sought to meet long-standing economic reforms demanded from the IMF and backed by the US. The IMF deal—as well as a crucial $35 billion recent investment commitment from the United Arab Emirates—underscores Egypt’s importance as a Middle East stalwart that’s too big to fail amid Israel’s war with Hamas and a conflict raging in neighboring Sudan.

Gunmen abduct 287 students in the latest school attack in Nigeria’s northwest, headteacher says (AP) Gunmen attacked a school in Nigeria’s northwest region Thursday and abducted at least 287 students, the headteacher told authorities, marking the second mass abduction in the West African nation in less than a week. Abductions of students from schools in northern Nigeria are common and have become a source of concern since 2014 when Islamic extremists kidnapped over 200 schoolgirls in Borno state’s Chibok village.

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OpenAI knows this. It’s almost certainly betting its longer-term future on more partnerships like the one with Microsoft and enterprise deals serving large companies. That means convincing more corporations that if they want to survive the coming AI-led mass upheaval, they’d better climb aboard.

Enterprise deals have always been where automation technology has thrived — sure, a handful of consumers might be interested in streamlining their daily routine or automating tasks here and there, but the core sales target for productivity software or automated kiosks or robotics is management.

And a big driver in motivating companies to buy into automation technology is and always has been fear. The historian of technology David Noble demonstrated in his studies of industrial automation that the wave of workplace and factory floor automation that swept the 1970s and ‘80s was largely spurred by managers submitting to a highly pervasive phenomenon that today we recognize as FOMO. If companies believe a labor-saving technology is so powerful or efficient that their competitors are sure to adopt it, they don’t want to miss out — regardless of the ultimate utility.

The great promise of OpenAI’s suite of AI services is, at root, that companies and individuals will save on labor costs — they can generate the ad copy, art, slide deck presentations, email marketing and data entry processes fast and cheap.

Afraid of AI? The startups selling it want you to be

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Blackhand of History (7/?)

A continuation of this article thread.

Considering that my 16^12 paracosm initially stems from emulating futuristic narratives like 0x10c, Halo 2 + Reach, Portal 2, & the original X-Men trilogy with a personalized touch of historically-informed autistic insights, it should be of no surprise to inform you that my oldest persistent original character is a self-insert far far away future historian from way back in ~2008-2009 for Halo 2. And as I came to draw various original characters out of similar intertextualized fandom in my youth, I wouldn't mind giving you a glimpse at them eventually as I revamp them for proper use? As I refine this very book narrative throughout, I wanted to clarify that among other things as to help you in assisting my creative process here.

And so... yeah, while I intend the book narrative to focused on a single habitable planet, truth be told the temporal epic scope (from cosmogony to literal heat death) and the copyleft nature of this might get really... let's say messy. Hence the presence of limitations onto some parameters in order to keep this within realistic project boundaries.

That being said, here are some historical divergences worth highlighting for the down-to-earth mundane life stuff:

Bronze Age: Lesser Bronze Age Collapse...

Axial Age: Better preservation of scrolls' data into subsequent ages...

Medieval Age: Index card libraries...

Early Modern: Lesser colonial imperialism & better trade relations...

1910s-1920s: No Woodrow Wilson eq. presidency, instead the two terms went first by Theodore Roosevelt eq. then second by Charles Hugues eq. ; Meaning less polarizing / radicalism between capitalism (from classical liberalism into georgism) & socialism (into syndicalism), more hopeful Polish future, better Shoshone domestic policies, better Spanish Flu handling... a overall more stable, harmonious, ecological and peaceful future long-term.

1960s-1970s: Better automation design & ecological integration long-term, flatter social hierarchies for the long-term, Jakarta Plan's Soviet worker rights / workforce goals fulfilled, varied domestic Soviet computing industry remains (no Western reverse-engineering replacing diverse soviet market), the first class of service androids aka robot-tier androids spread, ICL gets key contract into Polish & Samoa Civs, better queer acceptance long-term;

1980s-1990s: Droid-tier androids spread, later adoption of the global public internet through Xanadu protocol, earlier adoption of the GNU Hurd ecosystem thanks to monolithic kernel stay-in, ...

2000s-2010s: Synthetic-tier androids spread, no corrupt mass media widespread adoption, open source community wide adoption, dawn of the space age*, COVID pandemic here instead...

2020s: Bio-modding, morphological freedoms, nano-engineering, cyberware adoption, religious & spiritual meta-physical research spreads, Samoan corporative rise, copyleft & indie culture wider adoption;

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Data Historian Market to Scale New Heights as Market Players Focus on Innovations 2023 – 2028

Latest Report Available at Advance Market Analytics, “Data Historian Market” provides pin-point analysis for changing competitive dynamics and a forward looking perspective on different factors driving or restraining industry growth. The global Data Historian market focuses on encompassing major statistical evidence for the Data Historian industry as it offers our readers a value addition on guiding them in encountering the obstacles surrounding the market. A comprehensive addition of several factors such as global distribution, manufacturers, market size, and market factors that affect the global contributions are reported in the study. In addition the Data Historian study also shifts its attention with an in-depth competitive landscape, defined growth opportunities, market share coupled with product type and applications, key companies responsible for the production, and utilized strategies are also marked.Some key players in the global Data Historian market are:

General Electric [United States]

ABB [Switzerland]

Emerson Electric [United States]

Siemens AG [Germany]

AVEVA Group [United Kingdom]

Honeywell [United States]

Rockwell Automation [United States]

OSIsoft [United States]

ICONICS [United States]

IBM [United States]

Yokogawa [Japan]

PTC [United States]

Inductive Automation [United States]

Canary Labs [United States]

Open Automation Software [United States]

InfluxData [United States]

LiveData Utilities [United States]

Industrial Video & Control [United States]

Aspen Technology [United States]

COPA-DATA [Austria]

GP Strategies Corporation [United States] Data historian, Also known as process historian, is a software program which is used to record data with minimum disk space and fast retrieval. It is mostly used as a control system in various industries such as environmental control, automobiles, agriculture and others. Enterprises use data historian to manage rising volumes of data and to reduce cost of data storage.What's Trending in Market: Focus on Cost-effective Solution

Rising Cloud Deployment Model

Challenges: Rising IoT Application

Market Growth Drivers: Growing Industrial Big Data

Need to Manage Data the Data Effectively for Performance and Quality Improvement

The Global Data Historian Market segments and Market Data Break Down8462

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IT / OT SPECIALIZED APPLICATIONS LEAD - 202302-104997 Location: Oceanside, California

Industry: Pharmaceutical / Biotech Job Category: Information Technology - Other IT Are you passionate about Information (IT) and Automation Technology (OT) and aspiring to make a meaningful impact? Are you curious to shape a digital manufacturing architecture, ready to advance competitiveness on the market? We Make Medicines!​ ​Behind every product sold by the company​ is Pharma Global Technical Operations (PT). Starting with Phase I of the development process and continuing through to product maturity, PT makes lifesaving medicines at 11 locations, with the support of partners from around the world. Information (IT) and Automation Technology (OT) teams are key in producing and delivering medicine to patients. The organization is currently transforming towards digitalization, advancing fundamental elements to meet future needs, such as using new technologies. We are looking for a highly motivated engineer to take on the role of IT / OT Specialized Application Lead as part of the Site IT / OT Organization in a 24x7 Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) environment. The successful candidate will be: Site Owner of “Customized Applications” that interface with Manufacturing System Platforms such as OSI PI (Plant Historian), Syncade (MES), DeltaV (Distributed Control System), PLC's, Lab Data Systems (Smartline Data Cockpit) using OPC or other middleware. Examples of custom applications include: reports/reporting tools, dashboards Skilled at scripting and programming preferably in a manufacturing systems environment (Java, C++, Python, PowerShell) Support Lead for custom applications but also knowledgeable in Operational Technology Systems May eventually expand the role to become a Regional role for multiple sites supporting IT / OT operating model evolution What you will be working on: Development and Lifecycle management of the customized applications and related systems Support the implementation of OT standards and best practices across all sites Support commissioning and startup activity of new process control systems and manufacturing systems (Syncade, DeltaV, PLC’s, OSI PI historian, etc.) Support the execution of computer system validation and control system lifecycle management Develop and maintain GMP/Non-GMP design documentation and engineering diagrams Execute testing and installation of system/database patches, upgrades, and new releases Troubleshoot and resolve incidents and problems associated with the system/databases and applications Execute implementation and delivery of projects on-site IT OT Product Portfolio Operate and execute change control process for system deployment and release management of system/database software across Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) validated and non-GMP environments Requirements / Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience A minimum of 5 years systems engineer experience involved in the design, implementation, and/or support of automation systems, preferably in a regulated (Pharmaceutical) industry. Candidates with 8-10 years of relevant experience are preferred. 24X7 support, participate in an on-call environment to meet business continuity requirements, including weekends and holidays as required Extensive experience with scripting and programming in various languages (Java, C++, Python, PowerShell) preferably in a Manufacturing Systems environment Experience with scripting and programming in various languages (Java, C++, Python, PowerShell) Experience with Microsoft Windows Server operating system, Microsoft SQL Server, and development tools Experience with Emerson DCS DeltaV, MES Syncade, OSIsoft PI, Rockwell Automation AssetCentre, and various OPC architectures Onsite at Oceanside, CA, required (no remote) Relocation assistance will be considered for exceptional candidates Security Clearance Required: No Visa Candidate Considered: No Read the full article