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Electronic Timers Market Emerging Trends and Forecast by 2017-2032

The global electronic timers market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.8% during the forecast period, 2018-2028.

The competitive analysis of the Electronic Timers Market offers a comprehensive examination of key market players. It encompasses detailed company profiles, insights into revenue distribution, innovations within their product portfolios, regional market presence, strategic development plans, pricing strategies, identified target markets, and immediate future initiatives of industry leaders. This section serves as a valuable resource for readers to understand the driving forces behind competition and what strategies can set them apart in capturing new target markets.

Market projections and forecasts are underpinned by extensive primary research, further validated through precise secondary research specific to the Electronic Timers Market. Our research analysts have dedicated substantial time and effort to curate essential industry insights from key industry participants, including Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), top-tier suppliers, distributors, and relevant government entities.

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Market Segmentations:

Global Electronic Timers Market: By Company • Honeywell • Legrand • OMRON • Leviton • Intermatic • Schneider Electric • Panasonic • Theben Group • Kubler Group • Eaton • Hager • Enerlites • Crouzet • Autonics Corporation • Ascon Tecnologic • Marsh Bellofram • Trumeter • SELEC Controls Pvt. Ltd. • Tempatron • Sisel Engineering Inc. • ANLY Electronics Co.,Ltd • Kübler Group • Dwyer Instruments • Pujing • Any Electronics Co.,Ltd

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Global Electronic Timers Market: By Type • Analogue Timers • Digital Timers Global Electronic Timers Market: By Application • Industrial Device • Lighting System • Others

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All the regional segmentation has been studied based on recent and future trends, and the market is forecasted throughout the prediction period. The countries covered in the regional analysis of the Global Electronic Timers market report are U.S., Canada, and Mexico in North America, Germany, France, U.K., Russia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, and Rest of Europe in Europe, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Rest of Asia-Pacific (APAC) in the Asia-Pacific (APAC), Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, South Africa, Egypt, Israel, Rest of Middle East and Africa (MEA) as a part of Middle East and Africa (MEA), and Argentina, Brazil, and Rest of South America as part of South America.

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During a Tuesday appearance in New York City, Ford CEO Jim Farley focused on two big threats to U.S. auto manufacturers and their suppliers: Trump’s vow to withdraw support for electric vehicles and his enthusiasm for big, broad tariffs, especially against Canada and Mexico.

“Jobs will be at risk” if Trump ends the EV support, Farley said, according to an account in the Detroit News.

As for those tariffs, Farley said, they could “blow a hole in the U.S. industry that we’ve never seen.”

CEOs aren’t always correct, and they’re certainly not always looking out for the best interests of their workers. But the admonition from Farley, who was speaking at the Wolfe Research Auto, Auto Tech and Semiconductor Conference, echoes what labor unions and many analysts have been saying about the industry and how it will fare if Trump makes the changes he has promised.

Recent federal support for EVs has helped spark an explosion in factory construction for the vehicles and their component parts, in a region stretching from the upper Midwest to a new “battery belt” in the South. It also has fueled rising EV sales, allowing the “legacy” U.S. automakers like Ford and General Motors to make up some of the ground they’ve lost to competitors in China, where the government has spent more than two decades nurturing its own EV industry.

But government subsidies in the U.S. have largely come through the Inflation Reduction Act, the sweeping 2022 Democratic climate legislation President Joe Biden signed into law. And Trump is not a fan — of clean energy policies generally (he has famously called climate change a “hoax”) or of federal EV policies (which he says are forcing the industry to make unappealing, unprofitable cars).

[probablyasocialecologist]

According to a first of its kind study on “corporate carbon damages”, firms would lose 44% of their profits if they had to pay for the damages attributable to their climate pollution. When one of the researchers was asked what the total amount in dollars would be for such damages, co-author Christian Leuz revealed that “At $190 [the U.S. EPA’s current cost per ton of carbon], the utility industry averaged damages more than twice its profits. Materials manufacturing, energy and transportation industries all had average damages that exceeded their profits.” An additional analysis from 2013 that focused on pricing in environmental externalities came to a similar conclusion that does not bode well for “climate capitalism.” Influential climate analyst David Roberts, writing for Grist at the time, concludes: “Of the top 20 region-sectors ranked by environmental impacts, none would be profitable if environmental costs were fully integrated. Ponder that for a moment: None of the world’s top industrial sectors would be profitable if they were paying their full freight. Zero.” Not paying for the damages their production systems cause — what are often called “externalities” — whether related to the health of people or the sustainability of ecosystems, has been a way for capitalism to escape a falling rate of profit and maintain its dominance despites its obvious damage to people and biosphere.

Andrew Ahern, Making Graphs to Flatter the Global Elite

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dharna Noor at The Guardian:

Climate experts fear Donald Trump will follow a blueprint created by his allies to gut the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), disbanding its work on climate science and tailoring its operations to business interests.

Joe Biden’s presidency has increased the profile of the science-based federal agency but its future has been put in doubt if Trump wins a second term and at a time when climate impacts continue to worsen. The plan to “break up Noaa is laid out in the Project 2025 document written by more than 350 rightwingers and helmed by the Heritage Foundation. Called the Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, it is meant to guide the first 180 days of presidency for an incoming Republican president. The document bears the fingerprints of Trump allies, including Johnny McEntee, who was one of Trump’s closest aides and is a senior adviser to Project 2025. “The National Oceanographic [sic] and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states and territories,” the proposal says.

That’s a sign that the far right has “no interest in climate truth”, said Chris Gloninger, who last year left his job as a meteorologist in Iowa after receiving death threats over his spotlighting of global warming. The guidebook chapter detailing the strategy, which was recently spotlighted by E&E News, describes Noaa as a “colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future US prosperity”. It was written by Thomas Gilman, a former Chrysler executive who during Trump’s presidency was chief financial officer for Noaa’s parent body, the commerce department. Gilman writes that one of Noaa’s six main offices, the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, should be “disbanded” because it issues “theoretical” science and is “the source of much of Noaa’s climate alarmism”. Though he admits it serves “important public safety and business functions as well as academic functions”, Gilman says data from the National Hurricane Center must be “presented neutrally, without adjustments intended to support any one side in the climate debate”.

[...] Noaa also houses the National Weather Service (NWS), which provides weather and climate forecasts and warnings. Gilman calls for the service to “fully commercialize its forecasting operations”. He goes on to say that Americans are already reliant on private weather forecasters, specifically naming AccuWeather and citing a PR release issued by the company to claim that “studies have found that the forecasts and warnings provided by the private companies are more reliable” than the public sector’s. (The mention is noteworthy as Trump once tapped the former CEO of AccuWeather to lead Noaa, though his nomination was soon withdrawn.)

The claims come amid years of attempts from US conservatives to help private companies enter the forecasting arena – proposals that are “nonsense”, said Rosenberg. Right now, all people can access high-quality forecasts for free through the NWS. But if forecasts were conducted only by private companies that have a profit motive, crucial programming might no longer be available to those in whom business executives don’t see value, said Rosenberg. [...] Fully privatizing forecasting could also threaten the accuracy of forecasts, said Gloninger, who pointed to AccuWeather’s well-known 30- and 60-day forecasts as one example. Analysts have found that these forecasts are only right about half the time, since peer-reviewed research has found that there is an eight- to 10-day limit on the accuracy of forecasts.

The Trump Administration is delivering a big gift to climate crisis denialism as part of Project 2025 by proposing the dismantling and privatizing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Weather Service (NWS) in his potential 2nd term.

This should frighten people to vote Democratic up and down the ballot if you want the NOAA and NWS to stay intact.

[mariacallous]

President Trump’s tariffs are already coming for your sex tech. That and everything else.

Dame, a sex products company, shared a post on Instagram announcing that it would start implementing a “Trump Tariff Surcharge.” An extra $5 will be added to the purchase of certain products while the company “figure[s] out what to do next.” The line item on the checkout page is listed with an image of a golden wisp of a Trump-esque hairpiece.

“It’s a little funny, it’s a little sad, but above all, we just want to be as transparent with you as possible,” reads the description in the post.

Alexandra Fine, CEO of Dame Products, says the company knew tariffs were coming, though she did not think they would be quite so heavily levied against China as Trump’s current 125 percent rate imposed on goods imported from the country. The $5 fee will not actually be enough to offset the actual tariff increases if they do come, but the point of adding the line item was more to bring awareness.

“We’ve been thinking about this for a long time,” Fine says. “It was 10 percent, and I was like OK, we can make that work. Then it just got to where it just felt so absurd. It felt absurd, and that’s when I was like, well we’re going absurd a little bit.”

As the news of tariffs imposed by President Trump last week start to sink in, nearly every industry is trying to figure out how it will have to adjust the costs of its products, and, even more importantly, how it will communicate those price hikes to customers. Even though the president partly paused his higher import tariffs on every country except China for 90 days, affected businesses are still tweaking their messaging.

“I think we're going to soon start seeing tariffs as a line item on more receipts,” says Anshel Sag, a principal analyst at the research firm Moor Insights & Strategy. “People might be pissed off when they see a price, and then the price goes up by 20, 30 percent depending on where the product came from. I think it's way easier to pass it on to the consumer as a line item than just working it into the price.”

Paper Trails

While Dame may be one of the first to actually implement this strategy, it is not the only company to be trying it out. The high-end equipment retailer LittleMachineShop will include a “tariff surcharge” on its pricing breakdowns for affected products, and keep it separate from the main item’s cost both to maintain pricing transparency for the consumer and so the company “can more easily ‘undo’ the price increase if US trade policy changes,” it says on its website. The video conferencing company Crestron will be adding a 12 percent tariff surcharge to its invoices, and will also break that cost out onto its own line item on invoices to keep the increase transparent, according to an interview with the company’s CEO in trade publication Commercial Integrator.

Broaden that out and you can imagine how a company like DJI, for example, instead of just increasing the price of its drones and cameras, could keep advertised prices in a normal range, but treat the tariffs like a tax added at checkout. Tariffs have already been widely called a tax on consumers. Listing it as such on receipts will make it all the more apparent to the people buying the more expensive products.

Not everyone will adopt this strategy of listing additional costs at checkout, however. Leo Gebbie, principal analyst at the tech analyst firm CCS Insights says companies may worry that the extra fee will turn off consumers.

“For Apple, for Samsung, for anyone else who's trying to be a huge international consumer tech company, I think they'll really want to avoid creating confusion for customers,” Gebbie says. “I think they'll want to try and make pricing as sort of straightforward for people to understand as possible.”

As the tumult of Trump’s series of tariffs announcements, walk-backs, and doublings-down continue to ripple through the world’s economy, the landscape becomes rockier for any company trying to make lasting strategic decisions.

“If you are a large international business at the moment, I think the number one thing you're trying to do is just wait and see what happens,” Gebbie says. “I can't understand how they would be expected to make any of these decisions in a serious manner when the environment around them is not serious at all.”

For people like Fine, just doing something in the meantime feels better than doing nothing.

“The stability of tomorrow is an illusion,” Fine says. “We just always have to be agile. I’m trying to say I’m going to stay calm, cool, and collected, but that’s not what it is. I’m trying to dance with chaos, and bring some humor to it.”

[dingo-ate-my-hot-lettuce-crazy]

given that he grew up a normal life…

also these jobs are general examples, i dont know entirely enough if they are accurate

[expired-chicken]

The CEO's Orbit

summary: office drama just hits different when it involves espionage, life-sized plushies, and a CEO who might actually care. rating: mature tags: modern AU, corporate AU, office AU, corporate espionage, slow romance, drama, angst, crack, humor, fluff, hurt/comfort, CEO Levi, protective Levi

Chapter 3: Coalescence

word count: 3107

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"We appreciate ReCon's proposal," Mr. Zhang stated. "But after reviewing recent developments, we have concerns about the stability of your company."

Furlan let out a short laugh. "What concerns?"

"Internal inconsistencies. We need to ensure that a long-term partnership would not pose a risk to our interests."

"You’re a smart company, Mr. Zhang,” Furlan shifted forward, his voice smooth. “You’ve done your research, and you know this isn’t adding up."

"We're not saying we believe everything we've seen."

"Then, what are you saying?" Armin asked.

"Until we have further assurances,” Mr. Zhang declared, “we are not prepared to move forward."

Armin didn’t need to look at Furlan to know they were thinking the same thing. With a sigh, Armin pulled out his phone under the table and fired off a quick message.

We need your help. 

***

Ms. Chen cleared her throat. “Mr. Jaeger, we still have concerns regarding the discrepancies noted in—”

“The report’s inaccurate,” Eren interrupted, sliding the document forward and tapping a particular paragraph. “Titan used false information to create a misleading narrative. The discrepancy in question was a standard adjustment, which was reviewed and approved by our advisory board.”

Ms. Chen barely had time to react before Eren flipped to another document.

“This is the revised contract,” he continued. “It now includes a reassurance provision—an automatic renegotiation trigger should ReCon experience any actual distress within the next fiscal year.” He looked up. “Unless there’s another issue?”

The legal team exchanged glances, caught off guard.

“Sounds reasonable,” Furlan added, a smirk tugging at the corner of his mouth. “Doesn’t it?”

“It’s thorough,” she admitted, adjusting her blouse.

“We’ll have our team send the final draft for review by the end of the day,” Eren nodded, looking back at his notes. 

As the team left, Armin let out a breath of relief while Furlan stretched his arms over his head. Eren gathered his papers, stacking them into a neat pile.

“Well,” Furlan mused, glancing at him. “That was clean.”

Eren barely looked up. “A formality.”

“You good?” Furlan asked as they started leaving the room.

“Yeah,” he hummed, pushing the door open with his shoulder. “Text me if something catches fire.”

***

ReCon’s Uncertain Expansion Cause Investor Hesitation 

Levi’s jaw tightened as he skimmed the article. It read like some second-rate analyst’s attempt at stirring up drama, pulling “industry concerns” from who-the-fuck-knows-where. He called Armin and Furlan to his office. 

“Explain.”

“Explain what?” Armin asked. 

Levi pushed his laptop forward, the screen still open to the article. 

“This.”

Furlan stepped closer, scanning the article. His expression didn’t change, but Armin tensed. 

“When were you going to tell me Titan pulled that stunt?” Levi asked. 

Armin shifted, trying to find the right words. “We were—”

“You weren’t,” Levi cut in. “You thought you could handle it without me.”

Neither of them answered, confirming his suspicions. Levi let the silence stretch before he continued. 

“Despite handling it, we took a hit.”

“It’s not a major hit,” Furlan tried.

Levi’s gaze snapped to him. “I don’t care. It still happened.”

“Eren handled it,” Armin offered. “They’re still open to the partnership.”

“And now I get to read about how my company is unstable because of it.”

Before either of them could answer, a sharp rap echoed against the door. Eren stepped in, one hand shoved into his pocket, a folder in the other. 

“Good news.” Eren tossed the folder onto Levi’s desk. “The deal’s moving forward.”

Levi didn’t look at the folder.

“This is the part where you say ‘thank you.’”

Levi’s jaw clenched. “Get out.”

“Sure thing.”

“It won’t escalate,” Armin said. “The press won’t push it further.”

“Fine,” Levi grumbled. “Get out.”

***

The door swung open, slamming against the wall with enough force to rattle the frame. Levi stood in the doorway, darkened with something volatile.

“Sir?”

“Unbelievable,” he muttered. “This company is full of goddamn idiots.”

She straightened, folding her hands in her lap as he stalked forward. 

“You’d think people would do their damn jobs, but all I get is vague, unstructured bullshit.”

He planted his hands on her desk, leaning in until the heat of his frustration pressed against her. His scent wrapped around her, clouding her senses in a way that felt unfair. But she didn’t move, and he didn’t notice that he closed the space between them. 

“Sir, are you—” she managed, tilting her head.

“No.”

For a moment, neither of them moved. His eyes dragged over her face, searching for something she couldn’t name. His anger burned, hot and seething, but something tangled beneath it, and her heart pounded faster. 

She shouldn’t look. Shouldn’t think about how soft his lips looked, how they contrasted with the sharp cut of his jaw, or how she’d never let herself stare before.

With a slow inhale, his fingers flexed against the desk, and his eyes traced over her features. The blood roared in her ears, but she refused to pull away. 

Then, hoarse and low, he muttered, “Forget it.”

***

Levi exhaled, rolling his shoulders back as he stepped inside his office with a headache lodged somewhere behind his eyes. His desk remained exactly as he left it. Except for one thing. 

A small, delicate cup of black tea perched on his desk, steam curling from its surface. He stepped closer, furrowing his brow, and reached for it. Warmth still clung to the porcelain against his fingers. 

Even after he stormed into her office and used her as an emotional punching bag, she left a cup of tea in her wake. He glanced at the frosted glass doors, only to be met with a dark, empty office. 

He took a sip. No sugar, no cream, no unnecessary bullshit. Just warm, simple tea. 

***

A loud, unmistakable honk cut her thoughts off, obnoxious and barely legal. Heads turned and conversations stopped as an orange monstrosity barreled into view. Faded paint, streaked with grime, covered its surface, and dents marred the sides as if it had been used for target practice. The back bumper dangled, held up by bungee cords, while duct tape kept the side mirrors in place.

Hange leaned out of the driver’s side window, grinning from ear to ear. “Well, well, well! If it isn’t our lucky winner. Wumbo awaits, my friend!”

“Wumbo?” she asked, tilting her head.

“The one and only!” Hange replied, slapping the side of the van. “Here to rescue you from Levi’s brooding ass.”

“Hange,” she started, but they were already out of the van, throwing open the door with a clunk .

“Behold!” Hange declared, gesturing like a carnival barker.

The inside looked worse. Mismatched seats formed a chaotic collection of salvaged upholstery—one zebra-striped, one neon floral, and the back bench draped in a galaxy print that clashed with everything else. A disco ball hung from the ceiling while strings of LED lights zigzagged along the walls. Armin, seated in the front passenger seat, gave her a sheepish smile. 

“It’s not as bad as it looks,” he offered. “Mostly.”

Before she knew it, she sat on the galaxy-print bench, staring at duct-taped seatbelts and blinking lights. Hange threw themselves into the driver’s seat, slamming the door shut with gusto, and the van roared to life. 

The van jolted as Hange took a corner faster than any vehicle should have. She braced herself while Armin clung to the dashboard with both hands.

“HANGE! RED LIGHT!” Armin shouted.

“It’s more of a suggestion at this hour,” Hange replied, slamming the brakes at the last possible second. “Wumbo and I have everything under control.”

“How did Hange talk you into this?” Luna asked, glancing at Armin. 

“They said it was a test drive for Wumbo’s new engine,” he groaned, leaning back against the seat. “I didn’t think I’d be signing up for my death.”

“Oh, Armin!” Hange said. “Wumbo’s running like a dream! I think that new fan really gave her some pep.”

“That’s one word for it,” Armin hissed, slamming into the door as Hange veered around a slower car.

“Anyway!” Hange continued, oblivious to the cars around them. “First stop is just up ahead.”

She leaned forward, peering out the window as Wumbo lurched onto a side street. She spotted a small, brightly lit shop sandwiched between two larger buildings. The bold neon sign overhead read “Tutti’s Gourmet Ice Cream Emporium.”

“An ice cream shop?” she asked.

“Tutti’s,” Hange replied with a grin, yanking the handbrake. “Best in the city. Trust me.”

“As long as we’re not moving,” Armin sighed with relief.

She followed Hange and Armin out of the van, taking in the window’s display of an array of colorful ice cream flavors, from classic vanilla to Rainbow Pickle Delight.

“I’m treating,” Hange announced, holding the door open. “But you have to try something weird.”

Inside, the walls were painted with cartoon cows and grinning ice cream cones. A rick aroma of waffle cones and fresh cream wafted through the air. Behind the counter, a pink-haired employee eyed them with boredom. 

“Welcome to Tutti’s. Samples are free, but if you try more than three, you’re buying something.”

“Oh, this is exciting!” Hange leaned over the counter to examine the rows of tubs. “Look, Armin, they’ve got Black Garlic Swirl! You should try it.”

“I’m good,” Armin grimaced.

“Fine, fine.” Hange turned to her. “What about you?”

“What’s your weirdest flavor?” Luna asked. 

The employee pointed to a neon green tub. 

“It glows in the dark.”

“I’ll take it.” 

As they sat with their cones, Hange delighted in their monstrous creation of Fried Chicken Dreams and Peanut Butter Pickle. 

“Terrible,” they declared between bites. “But in the best way.”

“I can’t believe this is happening right now,” Armin muttered, poking at his scoop of mint chocolate chip.

“ Wumbo isn’t just a van,” Hange gestured with their spoon, flinging ice cream on the table. “She’s a gateway to freedom.”

After inhaling their ice cream creations and enduring Hange’s pitch about the “science” behind weird food pairings, the trio piled back into the van. 

Armin hesitated at the door, glancing at the street. “Do I have to?” 

“Yes!” Hange leaned out of the driver’s window. “Wumbo didn’t even lose a wheel this time!”

“That’s not comforting,” Armin muttered, climbing back in.

“Brace yourselves!” Hange announced, clapping their hands. “Flashing lights, questionable pizza, and the fiercest claw machines in the city.”

***

“Behold!” Hange exclaimed. “Neon Haven Arcade: where dreams are made, lost, and won back as cheap plastic prizes.”

Inside, rows of pinball machines lined one wall, casting colorful reflections across the glossy floor. Clusters of claw machines stood near the entrance, packed with stuffed animals, plastic trinkets, and vibrant capsules. Hange zeroed in on a claw machine. 

“Timing and persistence,” they declared, cracking their knuckles. Their attempt at snagging a neon-green octopus plush failed, but Hange only shrugged. “Warm-up.”

“I’ll be here when you’re done losing your life savings,” Armin wandered to a nearby air hockey table. 

“I’ll be here when you’re done losing your life savings.”

Eventually, Hange roped her into a game of skee ball while Armin attacked glowing moles with a mallet, screaming louder than the game’s soundtrack. 

“Look at that score!” they cackled, nudging her. “I’m unstoppable!”

As their time at the arcade wound down, Hange presented her with a small stuffed keychain.

“A token of Wumbo’s adventure!”

The ride to the next stop defied legality as Hange blasted a playlist that swung between classical symphonies and bubblegum pop. 

“Where are we going now?” Armin asked, bracing himself as Hange sped through a red light.

“It’s a surprise!” Hange beamed. “You’ll love it.”

***

Neon lights clashed with loud music, and the smell of vomit lingered in the air, turning the bar into a chaotic mess. A small stage stood at the far end, surrounded by disco lights and a smoke machine that puffed at irregular intervals. Nearby, a table overflowed with a treasure trove of props: wigs, feather boas, oversized sunglasses, and inflatable guitars.

“Look at this place!” Hange exclaimed, jamming a pair of glittery sunglasses over their glasses. “This is where legends are born.”

“Or where dignity comes to die,” Armin muttered.

Before she could protest, Hange shoved a microphone into her hand. Laughter bubbled up as the crowd’s cheers softened her reservations. When their song ended, Hange pointed at Armin, who hid near the back.

“Your turn!” they called.

“No.” Armin shook his head. “Absolutely not.”

“Come on! You can’t let us have all the fun.”

Groaning, Armin took the stage minutes later, clutching inflatable maracas and mumbling lyrics to an upbeat pop song. 

The night spiraled into absurdity as the drinks flowed like water. By the sixth round, Armin abandoned his protests, and she cried with laughter.

 ***

“YOU MADE THAT UP!” Armin yelled, hurling a lime wedge at Hange. It sailed through the air and hit a nearby waiter, who stared at them like they were animals.

“Wait,” she hiccuped. “Who’s...  who’s paying for all this?!”

“NOT ME!” Hange yelled. “IT’S RESEARCH!”

“For what?!” Armin wailed.

“THE LIMITS OF PHYSIOLOGY!” Hange screamed, leaping from the chair onto the table. “WE’RE DOING GOD’S WORK.”

“Can someone PLEASE call an exorcist?” Armin begged the ceiling. 

“I’m calling LEVI!” Hange shouted, whipping out their phone. 

“NO!” Armin and Luna screamed in unison. But the call clicked. 

“What?”

“HEY! SHORTSTACK! Guess what?”

“... Are you drunk?”

“HOW DARE YOU?” Hange gasped. “I am a SCIENTIST, Levi—this is RESEARCH.”

“Are you at a bar?” 

“NO! I’m on the FRONT LINES!” Hange exclaimed. “With TEQUILA!”

“I’m hanging up.” 

“WAIT!” Hange shrieked. “Levi, listen to me. We need your credit card. For...uh...REASONS.”

“Why?”

“The bar tab,” Armin wailed. “Hange said—”

“Don’t drag me into your poor person problems, ARMIN!” Hange yelled, hurling a glass at Armin, who barely managed to dodge in time. 

“You’re on your own,” Levi deadpanned. 

“YOU CAN’T ABANDON US!” Before anyone could stop them, Hange screamed into the phone, “YOU’RE JUST MAD BECAUSE YOU’RE SHORT!”

The line went dead. Silence fell over the table, broken by Luna’s hiccups and Hange’s cackling.

“Well,” Armin slumped in defeat, “we’re fucked.”

“FUCKED FOR GREATNESS!” Hange shouted. 

“Hange, GET OFF THE TABLE—”

***

Her eyes cracked open as sunlight streaked through the windows. Slowly, she shifted, realizing a coaster clung to her face.

“Huh,” she croaked. “We’re still here.”

“Yeah,” came Armin’s response from the booth, sprawled with a neon pink feather boa around his shoulders and his tie tied like a bandana on his head. “Still alive.”

“Absolutely!” Hange chirped from under the table. “Barely, but still alive!”

She squinted to find Hange lying on the floor with their glasses askew and their hair pointing in every direction. 

“This floor smells like sadness, body fluids, and pickle juice,” Hange announced, popping up like a jack-in-the-box. “So! What’s the plan? Coffee? Pancakes? Facing Levi’s wrath?”

“Wrath, probably,” Armin muttered, staring at a flickering neon sign outside the window. “We’re gonna get fired. What time is it, anyway?”

“Time to leave,” Hange declared. “The corporate overlords demand our presence.”

“Oh,” she replied with a lazy smile. “Nice.” 

“Wumbo’s waiting, my hungover heroes!” Hange threw an arm around both of them, steering them toward the door. “Let’s ride into the sunrise!”

The trio staggered out into the daylight, squinting like moles surfacing from underground. Wumbo, parked on top of the curb, looked as deranged as ever, complete with a parking ticket taped to the windshield. She climbed in without hesitation, slumping against the bench seat and closing her eyes. 

“If I die,” Armin muttered as he slid in next to her, “tell Levi it was Hange’s fault.”

Wumbo coughed and sputtered before roaring to life as Hange peeled away from the curb with too much enthusiasm. She and Armin sat motionless, too tired to care about the van’s lurching stops and starts.

***

Still in their states of semi-consciousness, Luna and Armin slammed forward as Hange parked across two spaces and threw the door open. 

“We made it!” Hange announced.

“I regret everything,” she slid out of the van. 

“Same,” Armin said, dragging his feet. “If Levi yells at us, do we accept it? Or, like, collapse?”

“Collapse,” she answered without hesitation. 

They trudged into the building, passing the receptionist, who raised an eyebrow but said nothing. Hange strolled in behind them with oversized sunglasses, a questionable scarf, and hungover swagger in their step. 

“If anyone asks,” she glanced at Armin as they neared the elevators. “We were here the whole time.”

“Obviously,” he replied, pressing the button and leaning against the wall. “This is normal.”

“Completely,” Hange grinned. “If Levi asks why we smell like a bar, say it’s a new cologne: Eau de Success.”

“I’m gonna need a new job,” Armin sighed. 

***

She shuffled into her office like a zombie, and her bag dragged on the floor behind her. She didn’t need to look up.

“What’s up, sir?” she greeted, slipping past him to toss her bag on the floor. “Lovely morning.”

“Your shift started two hours ago,” Levi growled. 

“Guess I’m late, huh?” she replied, plopping into her chair. 

“You guess you’re late?”

“Yessir,” she confirmed, taking a sip of coffee. “You’re very good at math.”

“Care to explain why?”

“The sun came up. I’m here. Feels like a win.”

“You smell like a bar.”

“Do I?” she asked, sniffing the air. “Beats smelling like vomit.”

“This isn’t a joke,” he said, folding his arms. “You’re an executive assistant. Punctuality is the bare minimum.”

“Yessir,” she agreed, spinning her chair. “Minimum. Very important.”

“You’re not even listening.”

“I am,” she replied, stopping her chair mid-spin. “You’re talking about… punctuation. And… math.”

“Math?” he repeated, looking like he might implode.

“Yeah. You said ‘hours late.’ Good math.”

Levi’s arms unfolded as he took a step closer. 

“Do you have any idea how irresponsible this makes you look?”

“Hmm,” she mused, stroking her chin. “I believe the answer is ‘yes,’ Mr. Boss.”

“It is unprofessional.” His voice edged up. “Completely unacceptable.”

“Sure thing. Unacceptable. Terrible. The WORST.”

He leaned down, planting his hands on her desk with force. 

“You reek of alcohol. You’re late. And you look terrible. What do you have to say for yourself?”

“I’d say, ‘good morning,’ but it seems like you’re not having one.”

For a moment, he stared at her, debating if strangling an employee warranted the paperwork. 

“Unbelievable.”

“Thanks,” she chirped, raising her coffee. “Always aim to impress.”

“Fix yourself. If you’re late again—”

“Yessir,” she called after him. “You’ll beat my ass or whatever.”

For a moment, he stood with one hand on the door handle. Her voice echoed in his mind, mocking and unbothered. The fucking nerve of her.

[researchers-me]

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[your-darling-gaze]

Late on this but better that never.

"Dream a little, Dream of me."

I'm called Darling Grace or Cherry, (she/her) I'm 21, I'm into every practical genre of music, sound engineering, hematology, law and chemical sciences.

Face Claim: Lana Del Rey <3

Occupation: Experiment Handler and Alloy Specialist at STARK INDUSTRIES, Co-researcher and Data Analyst at The Verizon STEM Effort Organisation, Sub-lecturer at The Wellington International University of Arts and Sciences, Head priest at The Vulpes Temple of Fox, Cincinnati and Bassist with the band Kizses.

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Adopted by: @clintbarton-thearrowguy and @laura-barton-shield <3

Siblings: @cooperbarton-hawkeyeskid , @hawkeyes-favorite and more

Worshipping: The Demigod of Vulpes and Entertainment- @fox-barnes (As head priest.)

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Family: Papa Clint Barton. Mama Laura Barton. Lilaaaa, Cooper Barton and Baby Nathan :) Grace, our kitten. Cooper Barnes, our puppy.

[ FAMILY LINKED HERE ]

No fine objective to life, always homesick, longing and mutilated for no specific reason, but we ignore that. To define is to limit, and therefore, there isn't much that can make me into an image.

Loving Cats because I believe I am one of them. You may talk to me if you feel like it, I don't bite, as much as I seem like it.

G'Night.

A song that describes me:

Love Always, Your Side Character.

(bye.)

[electronalytics]

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[rjzimmerman]

The Carbon Footprint of Amazon, Google, and Facebook Is Growing. (Sierra Club)

Excerpt from this story from Sierra Club:

IN MARCH The Information reported that Microsoft was in talks with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, about spending an eye-popping $100 billion on a gargantuan data center in Wisconsin dedicated to running artificial intelligence software. Code-named “Stargate,” the data center would, at full operation, consume five gigawatts of electricity, enough to power 3.7 million homes. For comparison purposes, that’s roughly the same amount of power produced by Plant Vogtle, the big nuclear power station in Georgia that cost $30 billion to build.

Stargate is in the earliest of planning stages, but the sheer scale of the proposal reflects a truth about artificial intelligence: AI is an energy hog. That’s an embarrassing about-face for the technology industry. For at least 20 years, American electricity consumption has hardly grown at all—owing in part, say computer scientists, to steady advances in energy efficiency that have percolated out of the tech industry into the larger economy. In 2023, according to the US Energy Information Administration, total electricity consumption fell slightly from 2022 levels.

But according to a report published last December by Grid Strategies, a consultancy that advises on energy policy, multiple electric utilities now predict that US energy demand will rise by up to 5 percent over the next five years. One of the chief culprits responsible for the surge, say the utilities, are new data centers designed to run AI. To meet the growing demand for power, those utilities want to build new fossil fuel power plants and to dismantle climate legislation that stands in their way.

For environmentalists, this represents a giant step backward. Artificial intelligence was supposed to help us solve problems. What good are ChatGPT and its ilk if using them worsens global warming?

This is a relatively new story—the AI gold rush is still in its infancy, ChatGPT only having debuted in fall 2022. But computing’s energy demands have been growing for decades, ever since the internet became an indispensable part of daily life. Every Zoom call, Netflix binge, Google search, YouTube video, and TikTok dance is processed in a windowless, warehouse-like building filled with thousands of pieces of computer hardware. These data centers are where the internet happens, the physical manifestation of the so-called cloud—perhaps as far away from ethereality as you can get.

In the popular mind, the cloud is often thought of in the simple sense of storage. This is where we back up our photos, our videos, our Google Docs. But that’s just a small slice of it: For the past 20 years, computation itself has increasingly been outsourced to data centers. Corporations, governments, research institutions, and others have discovered that it is cheaper and more efficient to rent computing services from Big Tech.

The crucial point, writes anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate in his case study The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage, is that “heat is the waste product of computation.” Data centers consume so much energy because computer chips produce large amounts of heat. Roughly 40 percent of a data center’s electricity bill is the result of just keeping things cool. And the new generation of AI software is far more processor intensive and power hungry than just about anything—with the notable exception of cryptocurrency—that has come before.

The energy cost of AI and its perverse, climate-unfriendly incentives for electric utilities are a gut check for a tech industry that likes to think of itself as changing the world for the better. Michelle Solomon, an analyst at the nonprofit think tank Energy Innovation, calls the AI power crunch “a litmus test” for a society threatened by climate change.

[follow-up-news]

Had she wanted to, Michelle Chumley could have afforded a pricey new SUV loaded with options. But when it came time to replace her Chevrolet Blazer SUV, for which she’d paid about $40,000 three years ago, Chumley chose something smaller. And less costly. With her purchase of a Chevrolet Trax compact SUV in June, Chumley joined a rising number of buyers who have made vehicles in the below-average $20,000-to-$30,000 range the fastest-growing segment of the nation’s new-auto market. “I just don’t need that big vehicle and to be paying all of that gas money,” said Chumley, a 56-year-old nurse who lives outside Oxford, Ohio, near Cincinnati. Across the industry, auto analysts say, an “affordability shift” is taking root. The trend is being led by people who feel they can no longer afford a new vehicle that would cost them roughly today’s average selling price of more than $47,000 — a jump of more than 20% from the pre-pandemic average. To buy a new car at that price, an average buyer would have to spend $737 a month, if financed at today’s average loan rate of 7.1%, for just under six years before the vehicle would be paid off, according to Edmunds.com, an auto research and pricing site. For many, that is financially out of reach. Yet there are other buyers who, like Chumley, could manage the financial burden but have decided it just isn’t worth the cost. And the trend is forcing America’s automakers to reassess their sales and production strategies. With buyers confronting inflated prices and still-high loan rates, sales of new U.S. autos rose only 1% through September over the same period last year. If the trend toward lower-priced vehicles proves a lasting one, more generous discounts could lead to lower average auto prices and slowing industry profits.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Madeline Halpert at BBC:

US President Donald Trump's administration has exempted smartphones, computers and some other electronic devices from "reciprocal" tariffs, including the 125% levies imposed on Chinese imports. In a notice, US Customs and Border Patrol said that the goods would be excluded from Trump's 10% global tariff on most countries and the much larger Chinese import tax. It marks the first significant reprieve of any kind in Trump's tariffs on China, with one trade analyst describing it as a "game-changer scenario". Late on Saturday, while travelling to Miami, Trump said he would give more details of the exemptions at the start of next week. "We'll be very specific," he told reporters on Air Force One. "But we're taking in a lot of money. As a country we're taking in a lot of money." The move came after concerns from US tech companies that the price of gadgets could skyrocket, as many of them are made in China. Exemptions - backdated to 5 April - also include other electronic devices and components, including semiconductors, solar cells and memory cards.

"This is the dream scenario for tech investors," Dan Ives, who is the global head of technology research at Wedbush Securities, posted on X. "Smartphones, chips being excluded is a game-changer scenario when it comes to China tariffs." Big tech firms such as Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft and the broader tech industry can breathe a huge sigh of relief this weekend, he added. The White House indicated the exemptions were made to ensure companies had more time to move production to the US.

Trump issues a purported exemption from his new tariffs electronic items, such as computers and smartphones.

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AP, via NewsNation: Trump administration says it will exclude some electronics from reciprocal tariffs

[mariacallous]

Silicon Valley let out a sigh of relief on Wednesday when it learned that President Donald Trump’s tariff bonanza included an exemption for semiconductors, which, at least for now, won’t be subject to higher import duties. But just three days later, some US tech companies may be finding that the loophole actually creates more problems than it solves. After the tariffs were announced, the White House published a list of the products that it says are unaffected, and it doesn’t include many kinds of chip-related goods.

That means only a small number of American manufacturers will be able to continue sourcing chips without needing to factor in higher import costs. The vast majority of semiconductors that come into the US currently are already packaged into products that are not exempt, such as the graphics processing units (GPUs) and servers for training artificial intelligence models. And manufacturing equipment that domestic companies use to produce chips in the US wasn’t spared, either.

“If you are a major chip producer who is making a sizable investment in the US, a hundred billion dollars will buy you a lot less in the next few years than the last few years,” says Martin Chorzempa, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

The US Department of Commerce did not respond to a request for comment.

Stacy Rasgon, a senior analyst covering semiconductors at Bernstein Research, says the narrow exception for chips will do little to blunt wider negative impacts on the industry. Given that most semiconductors arrive at US borders packaged into servers, smartphones, and other products, the tariffs amount to “something in the ballpark of a 40 percent blended tariff on that stuff,” Rasgon says, referring to the overall import duty rate applied.

Rasgon notes that the semiconductor industry is deeply dependent on other imports and on the overall health of the US economy, because the components it makes are in so many kinds of consumer products, from cars to refrigerators. “They are macro-exposed,” he says.

To determine what goods the tariffs apply to, the Trump administration relied on a complex existing system called the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS), which organizes millions of different products sold in the US market into numerical categories that correspond to different import duty rates. The White House document lists only a narrow group of HTS codes in the semiconductor field that it says are exempted from the new tariffs.

GPUs, for example, are typically coded as either 8473.30 or 8542.31 in the HTS system, says Nancy Wei, a supply chain analyst at the consulting firm Eurasia Group. But Trump’s waiver only applies to more advanced GPUs in the latter 8542.31 category. It also doesn’t cover other codes for related types of computing hardware. Nvidia’s DGX systems, a pre-configured server with built-in GPUs designed for AI computing tasks, is coded as 8471.50, according to the company’s website, which means it’s likely not exempt from the tariffs.

The line between these distinctions can sometimes be blurry. In 2020, for example, an importer of two Nvidia GPU models asked US authorities to clarify what category it considered them falling under. After looking into the matter, US Customs and Border Protection determined that the two GPUs belong to the 8473.30 category, which also isn’t exempt from the tariffs.

Nvidia’s own disclosures about the customs classifications of its products paint a similar picture. Of the over 1,300 items the company lists on its website, less than one-fifth appear to be exempt from Trump’s new tariffs, according to their correspondent HTS codes. Nvidia declined to comment to WIRED on which of its products it believes the new import duties apply to or not.

Bad News for US AI Firms

If a wide range of GPUs and other electronic components are subject to the highest country-specific tariffs, which are scheduled to kick in next week, US chipmakers and AI firms could be facing a significant increase in costs. That could potentially hamper efforts to build more data centers and train the world’s most cutting-edge artificial intelligence models in the US.

That's why Nvidia’s stock price is currently “getting killed,” Rasgon says, having shed roughly one-third of its value since the start of 2025.

“AI hardware, particularly high-end GPUs from Nvidia, will see rising costs, potentially stalling AI infrastructure development in the US,” says Wei from Eurasia Group. “Cloud computing, quantum computing, and military-grade semiconductor applications could also be impacted due to higher costs and supply uncertainties.”

Mark Wu, a professor at Harvard Law School who specializes in international trade, says the looming possibility that other countries embedded in the semiconductor supply chain could impose retaliatory tariffs on the US is creating a very unpredictable environment for businesses. Trump may also soon announce more tariffs specifically targeting chips, something he alluded to at a press briefing on Thursday. “There's so many different scenarios,” Wu says. “It’s almost futile to sort of speculate without knowing what's under consideration.”

More Challenges to Reshoring

Trump has said that his trade policies are intended to bring more manufacturing to the US, but they threaten to reverse what had been a bumper period for US chipmaking. The Semiconductor Industry Association recently released figures showing that sales grew 48.4 percent in the Americas between February 2023 and 2024, far above rates in China, where sales only increased 5.6 percent, and Europe, which saw sales decrease 8.1 percent.

The US has a relatively small share of the global chipmaking market as a whole, however, due to decades of offshoring. Fabrication plants located in the country account for just 12 percent of worldwide capacity, down from 37 percent in 1990. The CHIPS Act, introduced under the Biden administration, sought to reverse the trend by appropriating $52 billion for investment in chip manufacturing, training, and research. Trump called the law a “horrible thing” and recently set up a new office to manage its investments.

A glaring omission in the list of HTS code exempt from Trump’s tariffs are those that correspond to lithography machines, a highly sophisticated category of equipment central to chipmaking. Most of the world’s advanced lithography machines are made today in countries like the Netherlands (subject to a 20 percent tariff) and Japan (a 24 percent tariff). If these devices become significantly more costly to import, it could get in the way of bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to the US.

Also hit by Trump’s tariffs are a litany of less fancy but still essential ingredients for chipmaking: steel, aluminum, electrical components, lighting, and water treatment technology. All of those goods could become more expensive thanks to tariffs. “This is the classic tariff conundrum: If you put tariffs on something, it protects one kind of business, but everything upstream and downstream can lose out,” says Chorzempa.

US Allies Feel the Heat

While some countries that are already subject to US sanctions, like Russia and North Korea, were not included in the tariffs, many American allies are, like Taiwan, which plays an outsize role in the global semiconductor supply chain today compared to its size, because it’s home to companies like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which produces the lion's share of the world’s most advanced chips.

Taiwan will still feel the impact of the tariffs, despite the semiconductor carve-out, because most of what it actually exports to the US is not exempt, says Jason Hsu, a former Taiwan legislator and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a DC-based think tank.

Only about 10 percent of Taiwan’s exports to the US last year were semiconductor products that would be exempt from the new tariffs, according to trade data released by the Department of Commerce. The vast majority of Taiwan’s exports are things like data servers and will be taxed an additional 32 percent.

Unlike TSMC, Taiwanese companies that make servers often operate on thin margins, so they may have no choice but to raise prices for their American clients. “We might be looking at AI server prices going completely out of the roof after that,” Hsu says.

Hsu notes that the new tariffs will particularly hurt Southeast Asian countries, which could undermine a long-standing US strategic objective to decouple from supply chains in China. Countries in the region are being hit with some of the highest tariff rates of all—like Vietnam at 46 percent and Thailand at 36 percent—figures that could deter chipmaking companies like Intel and Micron from moving their factories out of China and into these places.

“I see no soft landing to this,” Hsu says. “I see this as becoming an explosion of global supply chain disorder and chaos. The ramifications are going to be very long and painful.”