The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly: This treatment of music as nothing but background sounds—as interchangeable tracks of generic, vibe-tagged playlist fodder—is at the heart of how music has been devalued in the streaming era.
Humphrey's world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain's strangest pub chain | Food & drink industry | The Guardian: Over time, Smith's preferences seem to have grown increasingly tyrannical. In November 2019, he shuttered the Cow and Calf outside Sheffield after he was informed it would be unable to produce a chocolate fondant, his favourite dessert. ... It isn’t just that Humphrey wants to build and run his properties and pubs exactly as he pleases. For decades, he has also been waging, through his company, a multi-front war against local planners, preventing councils, individuals and other companies from developing their land and properties.
Ants prove superior to humans in group problem-solving maze experiment: Unsurprisingly, the cognitive abilities of humans gave them an edge in the individual challenge, in which they resorted to calculated, strategic planning, easily outperforming the ants.
In the group challenge, however, the picture was completely different, especially for the larger groups. Not only did groups of ants perform better than individual ants, but in some cases they did better than humans. Groups of ants acted together in a calculated and strategic manner, exhibiting collective memory that helped them persist in a particular direction of motion and avoid repeated mistakes.
Humans, on the contrary, failed to significantly improve their performance when acting in groups. When communication between group members was restricted to resemble that of ants, their performance even dropped compared to that of individuals
He was a church official who criticized Trump. He says Christianity is in crisis : NPR: It was the result of having multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching — "turn the other cheek" — [and] to have someone come up after to say, "Where did you get those liberal talking points?" And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, "I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ," the response would not be, "I apologize." The response would be, "Yes, but that doesn't work anymore. That's weak." And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we're in a crisis.
Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime - ABC News[Fair Work] will have to prove that the employer intentionally avoided paying a worker appropriate wages and penalties, superannuation or other entitlements. ... [An employment lawyer consulted for the article] thinks Fair Work will only go after particularly "egregious" or high-profile examples of intentional wage theft with its new powers. ... Fair Work is also giving cover to employers who self-report possible wage theft. So Fair Work explicitly says they're not targeting honest mistakes, and employers who think they've made honest mistakes can engage with Fair Work to fix it. Employers will only be in trouble for intentional wage theft. We cross now for comment: "We feel these new laws are an overreach," the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry's chief of policy and advocacy, David Alexander, said in a statement.
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