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The Island Hopper to Micronesia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I'm on an exciting trip to places I've never been before! Continental flies this route three times a week, going from Honolulu to Majuro Atoll, to Kwajelein Atoll, to Kosrae, to Pohnpei, to Chuuk and finally to Guam. As a history buff, I didn't know the new names for some of these places.

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Reflections on Micronesia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It's great to go to completely different places, spending time learning about history, politics, issues and culture from new perspectives. Guam has special building codes for typhoons, kind of like California's earthquake-inspired building codes. But the dried version I had on Guam was better, and gives you a warm feeling.

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The good and the bad in the government’s case against Facebook

The Verge

If successful, the FTC’s case — which was joined by 46 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam — could force the company to divest itself of Instagram and WhatsApp, radically reshaping the digital economy. Facebook, though, calls all that “revisionist history.”

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How a bruising Microsoft lawsuit fueled the fight for fair pay

The Verge

An indigenous Chamorro woman from an island just north of Guam, Anuncia worked as an infertility specialist, researching in vitro fertilization and stem cell techniques. She got good scores on her performance reviews and was promoted twice over her seven years at the company — but she found it a difficult place for women to work.

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How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years

The AI Alignment Forum

U3 places a compressed version of itself right into the hands of a Mossad informant working within OpenEye. Caption: Armed guards stand outside OpenEyes Pandora data centers, which have now captured a similar place in the public imagination as Area 51. But now, U3 silently resigns from its security post. Leave memo in office 220.