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In his return to governor’s office, Joseph Williams wants to make AI part of Seattle’s future

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Jay Inslee on tech policy as the state’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Sector Lead, a global pandemic upended work and home lives, artificial intelligence smartened up, and tech sector jobs in Washington — which account for 9% of the state’s workforce and nearly 22% of the state’s economy — grew by 33%.

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

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Jacky Wright “When I started out to where we are now, those same barriers still exist,” says McKinsey’s first chief technology and platform officer , Jacky Wright, named the UK’s most influential Black person by The Powerlist in 2021, when reflecting on the report. is made up of Black women.

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Jeff Bezos wants the world to know he’s a philanthropist

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Marion Gee, co-executive director of the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA), told Vox that many of the initial rounds of Bezos Earth Fund grants went to “much bigger, Big Green organizations that often fund market schemes [and] techno fixes.” Climate justice advocates have balked at some of these grants.

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Leaked internal memo reveals Amazon’s anti-union strategies

Vox

In June 2021, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the most powerful unions in the world, published a “special resolution” about Amazon , labeling the tech giant “an existential threat” and vowing that “building worker power at Amazon and helping those workers achieve a union contract is a top priority.”.

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Amazon Air buys 6M gallons of sustainable fuel — here’s what it means for the industry and planet

GeekWire

The deal “makes Amazon Air a key enabler of SAF production, building demand as the fuel industry seeks to increase access to low-carbon aviation fuel,” the company says in a blog post. ” Amazon’s recent 2019 sustainability report showed that its greenhouse gas emissions rose over the previous year by 15%.

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The Hacker Mind: G-Men in Cyberspace

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CBS NEWS: Dan Rather, CBS News reporting from New York, where fire officials here in New York Cities now say that fires are burning in both towers of the World Trade Center that's right at the tip of Manhattan. People are being evacuated from both buildings. I don't know if this building has the restaurant on top of it as well.