Wed. 11/23 – Foxconn Riots?

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🗓️ 23 November 2022

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Actual rioting happening at the major Foxconn factory that produces iPhones. Microsoft fully embraces Linux. Advertisers continue to flee from Twitter. What if your wifi router and mesh network was actually a fashionable home décor choice? And surprise! The weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: InternetSociety.org/techmeme Storyblok.com/ridehome Links: Violent Protests Erupt at Apple’s Main iPhone Plant in China (Bloomberg) Windows Subsystem for Linux generally available via Microsoft Store (BleepingComputer) Advertisers are dropping Twitter. Musk can’t afford to lose any more. (Washington Post) Nest Wifi Pro review: better, faster, shinier (The Verge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The Tiny and Nightmarishly Efficient Future of Drone Warfare (The Atlantic) Robert Iger Returns to Disney Facing Radically Different Streaming Landscape (WSJ) America has an earthquake early-warning system now — on your phone (Washington Post) The Weird-Looking, Fuel-Efficient Planes You Could Be Flying in One Day (WSJ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022.
0:07.6	I'm Brian McCullough. Today, actual rioting happening at the major FoxCon
0:11.9	Factory that produces iPhones.
0:13.9	Microsoft fully embraces Linux.
0:16.1	Advertisers continue to flee from Twitter.
0:18.4	What if your Wi-Fi router and mesh network were actually a fashionable home decor choice and Surprise! The weekend long read suggestions.
0:26.7	Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech. There are tons of videos all across social media right now showing FoxCon workers at the
0:38.0	iPhone plant in Jiangzhou clashing with security guards as protests have erupted over unpaid wages and
0:46.2	COVID-19 fears apparently quoting Bloomberg. Hundreds of workers at
0:51.2	Apple's main iPhone- making plant in China clashed with security personnel
0:56.0	as tensions boiled over after almost a month under tough restrictions intended to quash a COVID outbreak.
1:01.7	Workers at the FoxCon Technology Group plant streamed out of
1:05.0	dormitories in the early hours of Wednesday jostling and pushing past the white-clad
1:09.0	guards they vastly outnumbered according to videos sent by a witness to portions of the protest.
1:15.0	Several white-suited people pummeled a person lying on the ground with sticks in another clip.
1:20.3	onlookers yelled, fight, as throngs of people forced their way past barricades.
1:24.8	At one point several surrounded an occupied police car and began rocking the vehicle while screaming
1:30.2	incoherently.
1:31.5	The protests started overnight over unpaid wages and fears of
1:35.0	spreading infection according to the witness, asking to remain anonymous for fear of
1:39.2	repercussions. Several workers were injured and anti-riot police arrived on the scene Wednesday
1:43.7	to restore order, the person added.
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