The Good Week 29

Here are a few interesting things I came across this week. A read on how a corporation is trying to monopolize berries across the world with a mission of making them available worldwide in all seasons. I love berries and being in Bangalore, I did not have access to them much earlier, and now it is everywhere. So, mixed feelings about this. I thought was GPS only accurate to a few meters, but apparently there is a way called GPS-RTK to use a "base station" to triangulate GPS and make it accurate to cm-level. Seems to be used primarily for surveying. Have been checking out science fiction magazines recently and here's a nice short story. How Starbucks' marketing stunt in South Korea went wrong by accidentally referring to a tragedy in their new slogan. This quote was particularly funny: Marketers chose the slogan after consulting an AI tool, looking for suggestions, Shinsegae Group said. It turned out some managers who approved the campaign never opened the email attachments showing the…