Banducci is set to retire from the Woolworths Group in September 2024. The announcement occurred days after Banducci made national headlines for walking out of an interview with the ABC’s four corners as part of their investigation into price gouging by major supermarkets in Australia.[3]
Path finding, computer vision, optical character recognition, machine learning and large language models were all unambiguously considered to be vAI technology before they were widespread, and now the media and general public tend to avoid the term for all but the most recent developments.
I read Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein right after Manufacturing Consent and I think that worked really well. It’s got some overlap in content that helps solidify concepts, but it’s a bit more modern and a much easier read (less dry)
Other recommendations
If you have any interest in economics:
Debt: the last 5000 years by David Graeber
the Defecit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
If you have interest in digital freedoms and copyright law:
Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
Just in case you’re not just satirically listing things that are already awful;
Supermarkets increase their “retention” by limiting signage to keep you wandering and avoid “just get that thing and go” shopping. I don’t know how common this is, but when I was a kid the major supermarkets had long lists of what items were in each aisle, plus highly visible signs in the aisle to show exactly where each category was. Now days at the major chains those in aisle signs are completely gone, and the categories have been whittled down to a few major categories; most products aren’t represented on the sign at all e.g. you have to assume “cake mix/decorating” are in the same aisle as “flour”.
Unskippable ads on all pumps are absolutely a thing that are getting more popular. Mobil is particularly bad for it in my experience.
And they still maintain their SteamOS, although it is only supported on Steam Decks.
It’s not important, but there is no connection between the original Steam OS and there new one. The original was an Ubuntu derivative, and there new one is an Arch derivative.