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2015 Uber has unilaterally raised its share of driver revenue from 20 percent to rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2015 Uber has unilaterally raised its share of driver revenue from 20 percent to 25 percent, translating into an extra $3 billion for the company ●●

2015 article “The Invisible Hand of Law: Private Regulation and the Rule of Law” rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2015 article “The Invisible Hand of Law: Private Regulation and the Rule of Law” in the Cornell International Law Journal ●●

2015 Ecuador takes nearly $6 billion in Chinese loans ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Perkins says Ecuador accepts nearly $6 billion from China, comprising about 30% of external debt ●●

2015 Christopher Eberts sentenced for wire fraud ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Filmmaker Christopher Eberts, known for Lord of War and The Punisher, was sentenced to four years in prison for wire fraud and money laundering related to a never-completed film. ●●

2015 Sociometric Solutions rebrands as Humanyze ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff documents the 2015 rebranding of Sociometric Solutions to Humanyze, which uses euphemistic language like people analytics while expanding behavioral workplace surveillance. ●●

2015 Carnegie Mellon study demonstrates user vulnerability to behavioral influence on social media candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff cites a 2015 Carnegie Mellon review by Acquisti, Brandimarte, and Loewenstein showing users are easily influenced in disclosure and their emotions and behaviors can be shaped. ●●

2016 candidate who truly reflected his progressive values rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2016 candidate who truly reflected his progressive values ●●

2016 Full Year Results Conference Call Transcript,” at 6, Nestlé, February 16, 2 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2016 Full Year Results Conference Call Transcript,” at 6, Nestlé, February 16, 2017, https://www ●●

2016 Nestlé in Society Creating Shared Value and Meeting Our Commitments Report, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2016 Nestlé in Society Creating Shared Value and Meeting Our Commitments Report,” 3BL Media, March 7, 2017, https://www ●●

2016 and 2020 (despite the outcomes) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2016 and 2020 (despite the outcomes) ●●

2016 for his book, Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain, as reported rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2016 for his book, Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain, as reported by Emine Saner, “Employers Are Monitoring Computers, Toilet Breaks—Even Emotions ●●

2016 Xi Jinping visits Ecuador, signs energy deals ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Perkins claims Chinese President Xi meets with Correa in November, signing major energy and trade agreements ●●

2017 with 93 percent of the vote and vowed upon taking office to continue his fa rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2017 with 93 percent of the vote and vowed upon taking office to continue his father’s work ●●

2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London ai_extracted 1 cit. no story on June 14, 2017, a fire broke out in Grenfell Tower, a twenty-four-story apartment block in London ●●

2017 It is a sad story candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It is a sad story.”2017 Bohr wrote Churchill on May 22; the letter was circumspect but political after all and conveyed what he had not been allowed to convey at the meeting: “that the President is deeply concerned in his own mind with the stupendous consequences of the project, in which he sees grave dangers, but also unique opportunities.” Bohr did not spell out these opportunities. ●●

2017 American Made film released ai_extracted 1 cit. no story American Made, starring Tom Cruise as CIA drug-trafficker Barry Seal, was released, depicting Iran-Contra activities with cameos including a young W Bush and Bill Clinton. ●●

2017 Narcos location scout Carlos Munoz killed ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Netflix's Narcos lost one of its scouting crew in Mexico in 2017, with Carlos Munoz's murder having unclear motives. ●●

2017 Facebook's 2017 developers conference positions surveillance as liberation for creative expression rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff critiques Zuckerberg's utopian rhetoric at Facebook's 2017 conference, where surveillance is framed as freeing humanity for creative pursuits and community. ●●

2017 Apple Generated More Profit Than Any US Company in Previous Century rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A 2017 study concluded Apple had generated more profit for investors than any other US company in the previous century. ●●

2017 Smart Home Market Projections rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The smart-home device market was $14.7 billion in 2017, up from $6.8 billion the year prior, expected to reach over $101 billion by 2021. ●●

2017 Zuckerberg articulates Facebook's mission as spiritual fulfillment and global community candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff documents Zuckerberg's 2017 assertion that Facebook will solve modernity's anxieties by providing purpose, hope, moral validation, and addressing feelings of isolation through its platform. ●●

2018 meeting, set about “working through the list as needed for the 2-for-1 offs rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2018 meeting, set about “working through the list as needed for the 2-for-1 offsets ●●

2018 On September 26, Fausto Luna, an Uber driver, died when he jumped in front candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On September 26, 2018, Fausto Luna, an Uber driver, died when he jumped in front of an A train at the 175th Street station in Washington Heights ●●

2018 and more than ten times the number from 2014—which, according to Gutelius, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2018 and more than ten times the number from 2014—which, according to Gutelius, adds more work, increases pressure on workers to speed up their tasks, and contributes to worker burnout ●●

2018 WHO annual budget established at minimal level rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story WHO operates with inadequate resources; annual budget of only $4.2 billion limits global pandemic preparedness. ●●

2018 Ecuador's Chinese-financed dam tied to corruption scandal ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Perkins cites New York Times reporting that Ecuador's Chinese-financed dam becomes part of national corruption scandal ●●

2018 The scientists who are brought into confidence can only offer the statesmen all rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The scientists who are brought into confidence can only offer the statesmen all such information about technical matters as may be of importance for their decisions.”2018 Those technical matters, however, Bohr made sure to note, included the probability of proliferation and of bigger bombs—he had learned of the Super at Los Alamos. ●●

2018 Nest thermostat merged into Google ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Nest thermostat, owned by Alphabet, was merged with Google, integrating smart home surveillance with Google's artificial intelligence. ●●

2019 US ends the Predict pandemic-prevention program ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2019 termination of Predict, a scientific program designed to predict and prevent pandemics (the program was temporarily extended when the coronavirus pandemic hit) ●●

2019 UN climate conference in Madrid, “is when politicians and CEOs are making i rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2019 UN climate conference in Madrid, “is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like real action is happening, when in fact almost nothing is being done, apart from clever accounting and creati ●●

2019 Litigation,” Expert Institute, April 4, https://www rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2019 Litigation,” Expert Institute, April 4, 2019, https://www ●●

2019 list, along with Apple, Walmart, IBM, and Ernst & Young, among others) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2019 list, along with Apple, Walmart, IBM, and Ernst & Young, among others) ●●

2019 on October 11, see the Climate Deregulation Tracker at the Sabin Center fo rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story on October 11, 2019, see the Climate Deregulation Tracker at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School, http://columbiaclimatelaw ●●

2020 Budget Proposal Seriously Cuts the Nation’s Safety Net,” Vox, March 11, 201 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2020 Budget Proposal Seriously Cuts the Nation’s Safety Net,” Vox, March 11, 2019, https://www ●●

2020 primary: the people chose Bernie Sanders, so that was his choice rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2020 primary: the people chose Bernie Sanders, so that was his choice ●●

2020 letter to CEOs, for example, Larry Fink, head of BlackRock, the world’s lar rejected ai_extracted 2 cit. no story 2020 letter to CEOs, for example, Larry Fink, head of BlackRock, the world’s largest money manager (managing nearly $7 trillion in assets), promised action on climate change ●●

2020 budget plans bear out Stiglitz’s concerns, with projected cuts of trillions rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2020 budget plans bear out Stiglitz’s concerns, with projected cuts of trillions of dollars from health care, social services, and education over a ten-year period and deep cuts to environmental prote ●●

2020 Killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed at the hands of four police officers in Minneapolis ●●

2020 Simultaneously published in the United States by Vintage Books, a divisio rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2020 Simultaneously published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York Copyright © 2020 by Joel Bakan All rights reserved ●●

2020 was, as the World Economic Forum described it, “renewing the concept of sta rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2020 was, as the World Economic Forum described it, “renewing the concept of stakeholder capitalism to overcome income inequality, societal division and the climate crisis ●●

2020 The Seeker's Guide published rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Seeker's Guide to The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Mitch Horowitz was published in 2020 by Gildan Media LLC (G&D Media), serving as a companion and practical guide to Manly P. Hall's legendary esoteric compendium. ●●

2020 Exponential growth of COVID-19 cases in March 2020 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Pandemic spreads at unprecedented rate; cases double every 2-5 days in March 2020, overwhelming public health systems. ●●

2020 COVID-19 statistics: 2.3 million cases, 121,000 deaths by June 24 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Johns Hopkins reports over 2.3 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and almost 121,000 deaths globally. ●●

2020 China-US relations reach worst level since formal ties rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Political and ideological fracture between US and China deepens; bilateral economic and technological decoupling becomes irreversible. ●●

2020 Amsterdam adopts the doughnut economics framework ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Municipality formally adopts framework balancing human needs with planetary boundaries as basis for public policy decisions. ●●

2020 1,100 experts release degrowth manifesto rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story International coalition of experts proposes planned downscaling of economy to achieve sustainability and equity. ●●

2020 Jacob Wallenberg warns of social unrest from prolonged crisis rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Swedish industrialist predicts unemployment of 20-30%, economic contraction, and violent social unrest if crisis extends. ●●

2020 Black mortality rate from COVID-19 exceeds white Americans rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story End of June mortality rate for African Americans from COVID-19 is 2.4 times higher than for white Americans. ●●

2020 African American unemployment spikes to 16.8 percent rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Pandemic-driven job losses disproportionately affect Black Americans, reaching 16.8% unemployment versus national 13.3%. ●●

2020 Jin Qi predicts long-term human coexistence with COVID-19 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Leading Chinese scientist warns that COVID-19 will likely persist as seasonal epidemic affecting humans for prolonged period. ●●

2020 Apple and Google partner on contact tracing ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Tech giants announce partnership to develop privacy-preserving digital contact tracing app for COVID-19. ●●

2020 Fewer than 30 countries implement contact tracing apps rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Despite urgent need, global adoption of digital contact tracing lags; most countries face technical and privacy challenges. ●●

2020 UK abandons homegrown contact tracing app ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Following technical failures and privacy activism, UK replaces domestic app with Apple-Google system. ●●

2020 France launches StopCovid app to weak uptake ai_extracted 1 cit. no story StopCovid app launched with poor uptake; only 1.9 million people adopted three weeks after launch, followed by uninstalls. ●●

2020 Zoom valuation surpasses major US airlines ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Videoconferencing company valuation exceeds that of major US airlines as remote work accelerates. ●●

2020 Amazon and Walmart hire 250,000 workers ai_extracted 1 cit. no story E-commerce giants rapidly expand workforce during lockdowns to meet surge in online shopping demand. ●●

2020 British medical consultations shift to virtual delivery rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In Britain, telemedicine adoption jumps from less than 1% of consultations pre-pandemic to 100% during lockdown. ●●

2020 Hertz files for bankruptcy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Car rental company with 700,000 vehicles collapses under weight of lockdowns and pandemic economic disruption. ●●

2020 British Airways cuts 30 percent of workforce ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Major airline cuts 30% of 42,000-person workforce due to collapse of travel demand from pandemic lockdowns. ●●

2020 Zoonotic diseases quadruple over past 50 years rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Wildlife and environmental groups report that animal-to-human disease transmission has increased fourfold in recent decades. ●●

2020 Land-use changes drive majority of zoonotic disease risk rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Agriculture and habitat disruption are primary drivers of emergence of spillover diseases from animals to humans. ●●

2020 China bans wildlife trade after COVID-19 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Chinese authorities permanently prohibit wildlife trade and consumption following pandemic emergence. ●●

2020 During the talk the President had expressed the wish to see B, and as a prelimin rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story During the talk the President had expressed the wish to see B, and as a preliminary step F advised B to give an account of his views in a brief memorandum.2020 The Bohrs turned to the task as Washington steamed, the last days of June and the first days of July dawning in the high eighties and sweltering above 100° by afternoon. ●●

2020 Mitch Horowitz films The Kybalion documentary in Egypt ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Recent to the writing of the Seeker's Guide (2020), Mitch Horowitz visited Ancient Egypt to work on a feature documentary about The Kybalion with director Ronni Thomas, to identify the manner in which the book intersects with aspects of Egyptian thought. ●●

2030 2030: Vinge says this will occur by 2030. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ves to be even supersmarter, and will thus no longer need us mortals. Vinge says this will occur by 2030. 19 On the other hand, these latest stories might turn out to be like the similarly phrased one ●●

2030 2030: rsmarter, and will thus no longer need us mortals. Vinge says this wil rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story rsmarter, and will thus no longer need us mortals. Vinge says this will occur by 2030. 19 On the other hand, these latest stories might ●●

2032 Notice that Bohr does not propose a world government of centralized authority bu rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Notice that Bohr does not propose a world government of centralized authority but a consortium: “An open world where each nation can assert itself solely by the extent to which it can contribute to the common culture and is able to help others with experience and resources must be the goal to put above everything else.”2032 And most generally and profoundly: “The very fact that knowledge is itself the basis for civilization points directly to openness as the way to overcome the present crisis.”2033 Such an effort would begin with the United States, Bohr suggested to Roosevelt in the summer of 1944, because the United States had achieved clear advantage: “The present situation would seem to offer a most favourable opportunity for an early initiative from the side which by good fortune has achieved a lead in the efforts of mastering mighty forces of nature hitherto beyond human reach.” Concessions would demonstrate goodwill; “indeed, it would appear that only when the question is taken up . ●●

2034 of what concessions the various powers are prepared to make as their contributio rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story of what concessions the various powers are prepared to make as their contribution to an adequate control arrangement, [will it] be possible for any one of the partners to assure themselves of the sincerity of the intentions of the others.”2034 The untitled memorandum Bohr prepared for Franklin Roosevelt in Washington in 1944 went to Felix Frankfurter for review on July 5 along with a cover letter apologizing for its inadequacies. ●●

2035 and 50 percent by 2050, positioning it, claims van Beurden, to “meet the go rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 2035 and 50 percent by 2050, positioning it, claims van Beurden, to “meet the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change ●●

2035 Bohr worried through the hot night and composed another apology the next day: “I rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bohr worried through the hot night and composed another apology the next day: “I have had serious anxieties,” he confided, “that [the memorandum] may not correspond to your expectations and perhaps not at all be suited for the purpose.”2035 Frankfurter had the good sense to recognize the document’s merit—it is still the only comprehensive and realistic charter for a postnuclear world—and about a week later told Bohr he had handed it to the President. ●●

2051 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story .2051 He resented even more that he was removed [by lack of administrative contact] from Oppenheimer.” The theoretical complexity of the Super challenged Teller as the fission bomb had not; it also offered a line of work along which he might lead. ●●

2055 You have to have a gun emplacement, and a gun, and a sand butt, which is nothing rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story You have to have a gun emplacement, and a gun, and a sand butt, which is nothing but a huge box full of sand that you fire projectiles into so that you can find the pieces afterwards, and because there might be somebody else out there.”2055 The site they chose was Anchor Ranch, a former working ranch three miles southwest of the mesa that the Army had bought as part of the reservation; they fired the first shot on September 17, 1943. ●●

2069 “Both because of the theoretical problems still to be solved and because of the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “Both because of the theoretical problems still to be solved and because of the possibility that the Super would have to be made with tritium,” reports the Los Alamos technical history, “it appeared that the development would require much longer than originally anticipated.” Work could continue—the Super was too portentous a weapon to ignore—but only to the extent that it “did not interfere with the main program.”2069 Von Neumann soon drafted Ulam to help work out the hydrodynamics of implosion. ●●

2070 “The hydrodynamical problem was simply stated,” Ulam comments, “but very difficu rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “The hydrodynamical problem was simply stated,” Ulam comments, “but very difficult to calculate—not only in detail, but even in order of magnitude.”2070 He remembers in particular a long discussion early in 1944 when he questioned “all the ingenious shortcuts and theoretical simplifications which von Neumann and other . ●●

2081 At the present time the method to which an over-riding priority must be assigned rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At the present time the method to which an over-riding priority must be assigned is the method of implosion.”2081 That necessity was painful, as the Los Alamos technical history makes clear: “The implosion was the only real hope, and from current evidence not a very good one.”2082 Oppenheimer agonized over the problem to the point that he considered resigning his directorship. ●●

2083 “The Laboratory had at this time strong reserves of techniques, of trained manpo rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “The Laboratory had at this time strong reserves of techniques, of trained manpower, and of morale,” says the technical history.2083 “It was decided to attack the problems of the implosion with every means available, ‘to throw the book at it.’ ” Going over the prospects with Bacher and Kistiakowsky, Oppenheimer decided to carve two new divisions out of Parsons’ Ordnance Division: G (for Gadget) under Bacher to master the physics of implosion and X (for eXplosives) under Kistiakowsky to perfect explosive lenses. ●●

2084 He was extremely suspicious of me rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He was extremely suspicious of me.2084 Parsons had his hands full in any case designing the uranium gun, Little Boy, and arranging its eventual use. ●●

2093 I remember that I met the man at the old Warner Theater here in Washington, up i rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story I remember that I met the man at the old Warner Theater here in Washington, up in the balcony—real cloak and dagger stuff.”2093 Abelson briefed the BuOrd officer about the plant he was building. ●●

2094 This vital information the BuOrd man carried to Los Alamos and passed along to E rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story This vital information the BuOrd man carried to Los Alamos and passed along to Edward Teller.2094 Teller in turn briefed Oppenheimer. ●●

2095 suddenly told me that we had [made] a terrible scientific blunder,” Groves testi rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story suddenly told me that we had [made] a terrible scientific blunder,” Groves testified after the war.2095 “I think he was right. ●●