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As labor around the world is increasingly gigified, these instances of resistance are important.

Great reporting here from Laís Martins

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Must read: Incredible story from Rest of World about the giant mess the TSMC expansion into the U.S. has become. So many jaw dropping details. restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-ariz…

Why IBM employees in Brazil are suing to be classified as tech workers

Reporting by Laís Martins from Sao Paulo restofworld.org/2024/ibm-lawsu…

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FEATURE: If you've wondered how TSMC's venture into Arizona is going, our reporting over the past four months will answer all your questions and more (and probably make you laugh, too)

Incredible story by Viola Zhou! restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-ariz… Rest of World Michael Zelenko #longread

Musk says the 'robotaxi' being unveiled in August is called 'Cybercab' (because of course it is)

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I think I might know who should do it

A great human story from Rest of World Viola Zhou of TSMC's Arizona struggles

For people who are bicultural and worked in between US/East Asia, the observations are familiar anecdotes

For people who haven't, it is a jarring but real account
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So many incredible details here about TSMC's efforts to bridge Taiwanese and American worker divides at its new Arizona chips factory

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Some Taiwanese workers attended a class on U.S. culture, where they learned that Americans responded better to encouragement rather than criticism, according to an engineer who attended the session. - fascinating story: restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-ariz…

“Engineers work 12-hour days, and sometimes weekends too. Taiwanese commentators joke that the company runs on engineers with ‘slave mentalities’ who ‘sell their livers’” restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-ariz…

Today's Rest of World feature on TSMC's Arizona plant is the latest in a series from Viola Zhou about the global realities of manufacturing tech.

Read together, it's a harrowing vision.

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TSMC makes the world’s most advanced chips in Taiwan. Geopolitical shifts are pushing it to set up a new factory in the American desert.

It needs to bring its cutting-edge tech but also a notoriously harsh, military-style work culture to the U.S. 🧵
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Mullets, Nyn, god, drones and Andreessen Horowitz are fueling a defense tech revival called the 'Gundo.'

Down in El Segundo, a movement of young (mostly male) founders are trying to make it cool to build hardware for the battlefield.

w/ David Jeans
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Today's on Rest of World is a story about one of India's oldest 'startups,' Sridhar Vembu's Zoho, and how it's making inroads into #Africa .

dámiláre dòsùnmú and Ananya Bhattacharya spoke to several Zoho executives and a host of African startups that are ditching Google!

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#Indonesia is using influencers to hype its new capital city Nusantara, and downplay fears of deforestation and boredom. But will it work?
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Govts in many parts of the world seem to have found a friend in #influencers . In India, politicians are tapping influencers for elections.

In Indonesia, the govt is using influencers to convince people to move to its new capital!

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