Category: Culture
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A Borderless Celebration: Nova Gorica and Gorizia Open the European Capital of Culture
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Article content Nova Gorica Slovenian and Italian Gorizia meet to write a new cultural chapter – one without limits. On February 8, 2025, the cultural holiday in Slovenia, the twin cities host a great celebration throughout the day. Under the title from station to station, the celebrations will be revealed…
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How Meme Culture Fuel Its Rise In 2024
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The cryptocurrency market is buzzing with the latest trendsetter, $DOGS Token, a meme coin that’s capturing attention thanks to its explosive entrance on major exchanges like Binance and OKX. Inspired by popular internet culture, DOGS isn’t just another flashy meme coin; it’s become a sensation partly due to its unique…
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In Defense of Bitcoin Culture
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The original article this piece responds to is: Reflections on Bitcoin Culture. Bitcoin is changing our lives. It’s an almost spiritual observation that we’ve all seen within ourselves. After getting some of it, learning how it works, and delving to varying degrees into what this decentralized, uncensorable, proof-of-work currency means,…
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In Defense of Bitcoin Culture
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The original article this piece responds to is: Reflections on Bitcoin Culture. Bitcoin is changing our lives. It’s an almost spiritual observation that we’ve all seen within ourselves. After getting some of it, learning how it works, and delving to varying degrees into what this decentralized, uncensorable, proof-of-work currency means,…
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Reflections on Bitcoin Culture
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I admit I have a soft spot for Noam Chomsky. Chomsky is a controversial figure, but he is also a hero for his writings on consent and conformity, and perhaps the most eloquent critic of the development of the deep state. Now 95, he suffered a massive stroke last year…
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A WFH ‘culture war’ has broken out across Europe, with the U.K. leading the charge as the most WFH-friendly country, while France lags behind
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Sometime between March 2020 and the end of 2021, “office workers” ceased to exist. Offices Working from home wasn’t possible, of course, nor was it the kind of work people typically did in offices before the pandemic. But the inherent connection between the two was irrevocably severed, with working from…
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Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun denies culture of retaliation against whistleblowers at Senate hearing
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Embattled Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun spent two hours Tuesday trying to convince largely skeptical senators that the embattled planemaker has been committed to safety since two deadly crashes six years ago. Democratic and Republican lawmakers alike grilled Calhoun at a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing about a series of…
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Boeing CEO to tell US Congress planemaker’s culture is ‘far from perfect’ By Reuters
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will tell a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday that the planemaker understands concerns about its safety culture after a mid-air emergency in January involving an Alaska 737 Max 9 jet sparked widespread concern. “Much has been said about Boeing’s culture. We have heard…
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Conservatives Pledge £730m to Tackle ‘Sick Note Culture’
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The Conservative Party has pledged nearly £730 million to support mental health treatment in England, aiming to tackle rising social care costs if it wins the next general election. This initiative is designed to reduce the economic burden of £12 billion a year by facilitating employment for an additional 500,000…
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Banking and Financial Markets CEOs are betting on generative AI to stay competitive, yet workforce and culture challenges persist By Investing.com
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Two-thirds (66%) of banking and financial markets CEOs surveyed said that the potential productivity gains from AI and automation are so great that they must accept risks to remain competitive. 65% of financial leaders say success with AI will depend more on people adopting it than on the technology itself,…
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To be culturally relevant, you need to be in culture
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Steve Jobs has been quoted many times on many topics. One of his most interesting analyzes concerned Microsoft He said Microsoft (which at the time was many times the size and value of Apple) might have been very successful, but it had no flair. He went on to say that…