Joe Ortiz

Into IT/Marketing, a Culture Vulture by heart and a one-part geek in all-rounders Other Platforms: http://joeo.bio.link/

Amazon says its 2021 carbon footprint rose 18% YoY and 40% from 2019 to ~71.54 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent, despite its plans to be “net zero carbon” by 2040
Joe Ortiz
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Amazon Says Its Planet-Warming Carbon Emissions Grew 18% in 2021
Bloomberg Green - Matt Day
Amazon.com Inc. said its carbon footprint grew 18% in 2021, as the company’s rapid growth during the pandemic overwhelmed nascent efforts to cut its …
A US federal judge rules Visa must face a lawsuit alleging it is liable for the distribution of child sex abuse material on Pornhub and other MindGeek websites
Joe Ortiz
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Visa ‘Intended to Help’ Pornhub and Its Parent Company Monetize Child Porn, Judge Finds in Allowing Case to Move Forward
Variety - Todd Spangler
In a setback for Visa in a case alleging the payment processor is liable for the distribution of child pornography on Pornhub and other sites …
Washington Post investigation: the US organ donation network relies on manually inputting data and aging software with programming mistakes, leading to periodic system failures
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Thousands of lives depend on a transplant network in need of ‘vast restructuring’
The Washington Post - By Joseph Menn, Lenny Bernstein
The system for getting donated kidneys, livers and hearts to desperately ill patients relies on out-of-date technology that has crashed for hours at a time and has never been audited by federal officials for security weaknesses or other serious flaws, according to a confidential government review …
On top of chip subsidies, the US must reform its immigration policies for high-skilled workers and invest in STEM education to become a manufacturing hub again
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Biden wants an industrial renaissance. He can’t do it without immigration reform.
POLITICO - By Brendan Bordelon and Eleanor Mueller
Intel’s planned microchip plant outside Columbus, Ohio, is the administration’s poster child for reviving high-tech manufacturing. But failure to allow a small number of foreign-born doctorates to stay in the U.S. could cause the effort to fizzle. JOHNSTOWN, Ohio — Just 15 minutes outside of …
The Chips and Science Act is unlikely to fund all giant projects in the US, meaning the Department of Commerce will face difficult choices in who gets the money
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Chipmakers battle for slice of US government support
Ars Technica - Richard Waters, Financial Times
Package to reverse decline of nation’s semiconductor industry will only go so far. The long wait for legislation to boost the US’s position in global …
An interview with Kate Edwards, a geographer and consultant who helps video game companies better reflect international cultures and geopolitics in their games
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This geographer helps video game developers avoid angering countries
The Washington Post - By Shannon Liao
In “Stray,” the adorable cat video game that’s become a hit in a quiet summer for game releases, players control a small cat as it navigates a cyberpunk Hong Kong. You prance around the occupants of the city — robots wearing stereotypical rice paddy hats — and skitter past signage reminiscent of …