The organization as a business

It doesn’t yet have the name that other similar (biotech) companies have. But it has the charm. Ginkgo is considered a “rising star”, since it bills itself as the organism …

The end of the clinic

With all due respect to those among the healthcare workers who are fighting with integrity against the coercive platformization: they have lost the main battle. And if they do not …

Health on your plate!

FReSH (initials standing for Food Reform for Sustainability and Health) is a benevolent initiative of the “World Business Council” to restructure the world’s food system; and to make companies adapt …

Eternal youth (superficial first)…

A South Korean cosmetics company called Amorepacific, in collaboration with a team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is preparing to support and commercialize the latter’s …

Close contacts of the known type.

They have their reasons to hide them; or, at least, not to advertise them. The hard core of the (American) state is a very good customer, and it has its …

Superposition; Disentanglement;

Because some basics of physics (understood as a science) have been learned by each of us at school and, above all, have been adopted as constants, as givens, as reality, …

p.c. labor

The so-called remote work (we have explained that we prefer the term “work from home”, in order to get rid of the propaganda of idyllic descriptions of the type “work …

History of the messenger

What is the biotechnology of messenger RNA? Is it a simple technical breakthrough, as its followers claim, that will only lead to good for humankind? Or is it the first …

fuck the algorithm

In mid-August, thousands of high school students rallied in front of the education ministry of Her Majesty’s government. It deserves be considered the second authentic demonstration against the “brave new …

the reset

… the pandemic will accelerate innovation even more, catalysing technological changes already under way (comparable to the exacerbation effect it has had on other underlying global and domestic issues) and …

High tech sharpening

Last Saturday, two systemic media outlets, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, published a u.s department of state order to electronic chip manufacturers: it is forbidden to sell to chinese …

Labor is the target.

The measures taken (and will be taken) on the occasion of the pandemic have a huge impact on the economy in general and the labor market in particular. Rhetoric has it that in order lives to be saved, the economy must be sacrificed. “Human life above profits!” is the slogan; and concerns about whether states have anti-capitalist tendencies to protect us are manifested in the cafes of the friends of the working class. Unable to find an explanation for the “turn of states against their interests and profits”, they accept this turn as a contradiction and get rid of it; to get confused again afterwards, trying to criticize its management, asking for more protection measures and bonuses.