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JAKARTA: Diaz Nawaksara grew up during the rise of the Internet and telecommunications. When the 30-year-old went to college, he decided to study information management, focusing on storing information through computational methods. But as modern as his educational qualification sounds, his job nowadays involves something very ancient: preserving Indonesian scripts that are as old as 500 years. “I started in 2012 by studying the Javanese script first,” Nawaksara recounted, referring to the native language of those from Indonesia’s and the world’s most populated island of Java. Today, he can read and write over 30 ancient Indonesian scripts. He understands fluently about half of the languages associated with these scripts. It is a rare ability considering that most Indonesians can only read one or two scripts. Most Indonesians can read Latin, the script used for the national language Bahasa Indonesia as well as English. Others also know Arabic for reading the Koran … [Read more...] about This man can read and write 30 ancient Indonesian scripts, some as old as 500 years

After five years of legal battles, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has issued a final ruling : A group of drivers on Uber’s platform should have been classified as “workers,” not “contractors,” and were entitled to benefits such as minimum wage and paid leave. But U.S. labor activists fighting similar battles – through California’s messy Assembly Bill 5 or the proposed federal PRO Act – should put the corks back on the champagne. The UK decision also managed to highlight how drivers are not “ employees.” Workers, it turns out, is a middle-ground legal category enjoying only some of the benefits mandated for traditional employees. The ruling may also have limited applicability if Uber continues to adjust its platform to accommodate the judges’ findings. American judges, who don’t have access to a third classification, have expressed frustration that Depression-era labor regulations are ill-equipped to deal with the diversity of modern work opportunities. … [Read more...] about UK Uber ruling shows old labor regs don’t fit today’s workforce

Kindly Share This Story: An eight-year-old boy was killed by a crocodile as he swam in a river in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province, an official said on Friday. The boy and his little brother were swimming in the river while their father was watching near their house in Kutai Timur district on Wednesday when he was attacked and swallowed by a crocodile, said Oktavianto, an official at the local search and rescue agency. READ ALSO: JUST IN: ‘Operation Crocodile Smile’ not against #EndSARS protesters ― Army His father jumped to help him but the reptile escaped, Oktavianto said. “He chased the crocodile and hit it with bare hands but he couldn’t keep up,” he said. Locals caught the six-metre-long crocodile on Thursday and found the intact body of the boy inside it. A video posted on YouTube showed rescue workers pulling the body out of the crocodile’s stomach, with his family watching and weeping. The river is known to be a crocodile … [Read more...] about Crocodile swallows 8-year-old boy

When the first phone book was published in 1878, it had only 50 entries, giving subscribers the names of fellow citizens privileged enough to have a telephone. Today, the ultimate privilege is being unlisted — but thanks to a complex ecosystem of online people search services, that’s nearly impossible. People search sites are a perennially controversial feature of the web, from the venerable Whitepages.com to the reviled upstart FamilyTreeNow , which was publicized and widely condemned earlier this year. They’re the perfect example of how scale and searchability can change the meaning of data: the contents of thousands of phone books accessible from anywhere in the world, with an unprecedented level of detail. It makes their data more useful, and more dangerous, than ever before. And after two decades, we still don’t know what to make of them. “People search site” is a broad term for the dozens of search engines based on public (and sometimes private) data like DMV and court … [Read more...] about The long, weird history of companies that put your life online

CALIFORNIA CITY (CBSLA) — A relative of two missing toddlers from Kern County spoke out this week about the ongoing search for 4-year-old Orrin and 3-year-old Orson West. (credit: CBS) The two young brothers disappeared from the backyard of their adoptive parents’ home in California City on Dec. 21. There have been multiple searches in Bakersfield , where the boys lived with their adoptive parents, before moving to California City in September. READ MORE: 9 Great Apes At San Diego Zoo Become First Non-Humans To Receive A COVID Vaccine Rosanna Willis, a biological relative of one of the boys, spoke to the Kern County Black Chamber of Commerce about the search . She said her gut feeling was that foul play is involved in the boys’ disappearance. READ MORE: Woman Shot During Brazen Daylight Robbery At Beverly Hills Restaurant “Two kids don’t just come up missing, especially in Cal City,” Willis said. “if you go out there and you look at the area, the neighbors, … [Read more...] about ‘2 Kids Don’t Just Come Up Missing’: Relative Of Missing Kern County Toddlers Speaks Out