Twitter. And Facebook. And death. Future Tense with John Moe, American Public Media (August 16, 2010) Just recently, Twitter announced new guidelines on what it will do when a user dies. Twitter now joins the ranks of Facebook and Myspace in coming up with policies for dead members. We here at Death Ref have been [...]
Merely Human? That’s So Yesterday Ashlee Vance, The New York Times (June 13, 2010) The Singularity movement sees a time when human beings and machines will merge and overcome illness and perhaps death. The tagline for this New York Times article is only partially correct. The Singularity movement and another group called the Transhumanists see [...]
“Maybe this spate of suicides will also serve us as a wake-up call,” he said in an interview last week. “We realize we must do a better job.” —Louis Woo, a high-ranking Foxconn executive The NY Times has written another article about the Foxconn suicides. This follows a second pay raise by the company this [...]
Today’s NY Times reports that Foxconn will raise employee’s salaries by 33 percent. Assembly line workers will now go from the equivalent of approximately $132 per month to $176 per month. A week earlier, company chairman Terry Gou, had promised to improve conditions at the factory and to quell the rash of suicides plaguing the [...]