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phlboss mines pattern A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and prevent an artificial intelligence "dictatorship" is now heading to a federal judge as Musk seeks to halt the ChatGPT maker's ongoing shift into a for-profit company. Musk, an early OpenAI investor and board member, sued the artificial intelligence company earlier this year alleging it had betrayed its founding aims as a nonprofit research lab benefiting the public good rather than pursuing profits. Musk has since escalated the dispute, adding new claims and asking for a court order that would stop OpenAI’s plans to convert itself into a for-profit business more fully. The world's richest man, whose companies include Tesla, SpaceX and social media platform X, last year started his own rival AI company, xAI. Musk says it faces unfair competition from OpenAI and its close business partner Microsoft, which has supplied the huge computing resources needed to build AI systems such as ChatGPT. “OpenAI and Microsoft together exploiting Musk’s donations so they can build a for-profit monopoly, one now specifically targeting xAI, is just too much,” says Musk's filing that alleges the companies are violating the terms of Musk’s foundational contributions to the charity. OpenAI filed a response Friday opposing Musk’s requested order, saying it would “debilitate OpenAI’s business” and mission to the advantage of Musk and his own AI company and is based on “far-fetched” legal claims. A hearing is set for January before U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California. At the heart of the dispute is a 2017 internal power struggle at the fledgling startup that led to Altman becoming OpenAI's CEO. Musk also sought to be CEO and in an email outlined a plan where he would “unequivocally have initial control of the company” but said that would be temporary. He grew frustrated after two other OpenAI co-founders said he would hold too much power as a major shareholder and chief executive if the startup succeeded in its goal to achieve better-than-human AI known as artificial general intelligence , or AGI. Musk has long voiced concerns about how advanced forms of AI could threaten humanity. “The current structure provides you with a path where you end up with unilateral absolute control over the AGI," said a 2017 email to Musk from co-founders Ilya Sutskever and Greg Brockman. “You stated that you don't want to control the final AGI, but during this negotiation, you've shown to us that absolute control is extremely important to you.” In the same email, titled “Honest Thoughts,” Sutskever and Brockman also voiced concerns about Altman's desire to be CEO and whether he was motivated by “political goals.” Altman eventually succeeded in becoming CEO, and has remained so except for a period last year when he was fired and then reinstated days later after the board that ousted him was replaced. OpenAI published the messages Friday in a blog post meant to show its side of the story, particularly Musk's early support for the idea of making OpenAI a for-profit business so it could raise money for the hardware and computer power that AI needs. It was Musk, through his wealth manager Jared Birchall, who first registered “Open Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Inc.,” a public benefit corporation, in September 2017. Then came the “Honest Thoughts” email that Musk described as the “final straw.” “Either go do something on your own or continue with OpenAI as a nonprofit,” Musk wrote back. OpenAI said Musk later proposed merging the startup into Tesla before resigning as the co-chair of OpenAI's board in early 2018. Musk didn't respond to emailed requests for comment sent to his companies Friday. Asked about his frayed relationship with Musk at a New York Times conference last week, Altman said he felt “tremendously sad” but also characterized Musk’s legal fight as one about business competition. “He’s a competitor and we’re doing well,” Altman said. He also said at the conference that he is “not that worried” about the Tesla CEO’s influence with President-elect Donald Trump. OpenAI said Friday that Altman plans to make a $1 million personal donation to Trump’s inauguration fund, joining a number of tech companies and executives who are working to improve their relationships with the incoming administration. —————————— The Associated Press and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement allowing OpenAI access to part of the AP’s text archives. This story has been updated to correct the name of the company registered in 2017. It was Open Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Inc., not Open Artificial Technologies Technologies, Inc.Eric Watkins of Abstrakt Highlights the Challenges of Building Internal SDR TeamsUS stocks surge to records, shrugging off upheaval in South Korea, France

Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! This week, it’s Looking Glass Studios’ legend, Deus Ex director, and Otherside ’s Warren Spector - who I suspect might have realised the very secret goal of this column. Cheers Warren! Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf? What are you currently reading? Let me start by saying I have 17,000 "dead tree" books and 7,000 e-books, so I have a lot to choose from! That may be why I read several books at once - a lightweight read, a heavy read, a medium read, some fiction and some poetry. Or maybe it's just that I'd go crazy if all I read was pap or pretentious heavyweight stuff. That out of the way... right now, I'm reading these: Gamer Girls by Mary Kenney There's a huge chunk of videogame history I know nothing about. Reading this, I'm learning some more. A lightweight book, but informative and an easy read. Introducing Walter Benjamin by Howard Caygill, Alex Coles and Andrzej Klimowski I've been meaning to dive into Benjamin's work but haven't made it any further than The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. I figure a quick overview of his life and work will ease me into the rest of his work. Chilly Scenes Of Winter by Ann Beattie A novel I've been meaning to read since I saw Joan Micklin Silver's wonderful 1979 (I think) film of the same name. I rewatched it recently and it hasn't entirely held up but I figured I should finally give the novel a try. Poetry 180 edited by Billy Collins For some reason I do not understand, I've become a poetry nut recently. It started with a course on Masterclass by ex-poet laureate, Billy Collins that was terrific. (If you don't subscribe to Masterclass you might consider it. If nothing else, Will Wright does a terrific game design course...) Collins has become my favorite poet - funny, accessible and somehow pretty profound. If nothing else find his poem "The Lanyard." It starts out being about trivialities but ends up being about so much more. 1001 Muscle Car Facts by Steve Magnante I’m a car nut. Have been since I was a teenager. Steve Magnante makes me look like an amateur. Which I guess I am, actually. Anyway, I love the guy’s stuff. (Check out his “Junkyard Crawl” videos on YouTube. They’re awesome.) I didn’t include this book in my first pass “what I’m reading” list because it isn’t the kind of thing you sit down and read – you crack it open, read a factoid or three and put it back down. But it’s a book; I’ve been “reading” it for months; I learn lots of useless facts from it; so here it is. I've kept a list of every book I've read since 1989, so this is an easy one to answer. Given that I read more than one book at a time, I have several books in my finished list: New York In The '50's by Dan Wakefield. I grew up in New York, in the East Village, and was too young to experience what Wakefield writes about, but I've long been fascinated by the political/cultural/literary life of Columbia University, the jazz clubs of Manhattan and bohemian life in Greenwich Village. (Hey, I admit I'm nostalgic for a period I didn't live through...) Wakefield is a terrific writer and he's a Zelig-like figure who knew everybody from philosophers to poets to the Beats to jazz musicians to blacklisted writers to, well, everyone. Wonderful book describing an incredible life. Signs And Meaning In The Cinema by Peter Wollen Another book I've been meaning to read for decades. It's a collection of three essays and a massive interview with the author. The first essay is an evaluation of the work and theories of Russian film director, Sergei Eisenstein; the second essay is an evaluation of the auteur theory and some evaluations of various film directors; the third essay is the one I really wanted to read - it's all about semiotics as it applies to film. I've never understood semiotics, a fact that really bugs me. I've been reading a bunch about it over the last few months, but nothing that, to my limited knowledge, applied its precepts to anything other than literature and anthropology (and rarely even those). I figured Wollen might show me how the study of signs and signifiers might apply to film and, in that way, show me how it might be applied to an understanding of games in a new and interesting way. That didn't quite work out, but I'm not done with semiotics. Some of it is sinking in and I've been enjoying the journey. The Beauty Of Games by Frank Lantz Not much to say about this other than STOP READING THIS AND GET A COPY! Frank's a super smart guy who's taught game design and game criticism as well as making games of his own. Here he offers ways to think about games that get far beyond good/bad and fun/not-fun. I've been saying for years that those ways of talking about games are useless - that "fun" in particular is a useless word that diminishes what we do. Frank goes way deeper in a book that's an easy, accessible read. Required. Go. Now. Play Nice by Jason Schrier Jason may be the best games journalist around. His books Press Reset and Blood, Sweat and Pixels give the most accurate look at what game development is really like I've ever read. His latest, Play Nice, is a history of Blizzard. No, make that THE history of Blizzard. There's basically no need to write another one. I thought I knew the story. I didn't. Now I do. (Jason has a way of getting people - okay, ME - saying things on the record they shouldn't say at all. I don't know how he does it. But he does. That's very much on display here.) I've got a ways to go in the books I'm currently reading so it'll be a while before "next" rolls around, but I do have my eye on some books. I won’t read all of these of course, but these are the ones from which I’m going to choose. I reserve the right to change my mind on any or all of these before or after I give them a try. Oh, and before you read this list, know that I'm unashamedly pretentious. That said, these are legitimately the books by my bed. No fooling. So sue me. Or join me. And let's talk about stuff. Basic Writings Of Existentialism edited by Gordon Marino I've been on a philosophy kick on and off for a year or so. Read a lot. For better or worse, Existentialism makes some sense to me but that’s on the basis of not very much. I want to broaden my range of reading. I'll probably dip my toe into this over the course of time rather than read it all at once, but this seems like a good way to dive deeper. Semiotics: An Introductory Anthology edited by Robert E. Innis Anyone want to bet this is the first book to drop off my to-read list? Reading ABOUT semiotics is tough enough. Reading original stuff is almost impossible. I'm going to give it a shot, but I'm not hopeful. Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari Harari is a favorite of mine. He popularizes Big Topics in ways that bug a lot of people but I find enlightening, even soothing. This one is about the history of networks and their impact on humanity and society. I don't know much more than that and don't really care. I eat the guy's stuff up. The Virtual Life Of Film by David Rodowick I actually went to grad school with Rodowick and understood, like, every fifth word he said. He was our resident semiotics nut. He's gone on to an impressive career as an academic and I'm hoping - as I did with the Wollen book - I can learn something about practical application of a critical approach I find opaque (at best). I hate when I don't understand something and I'm going to lick this semiotics thing if it kills me. The Work Of Art: How Something Comes From Nothing by Adam Moss I love reading books about creativity, the creative process and the creation of art works. I know very little about this book other than it got great reviews, I love the topic and the book itself is a work of art. I mean the way it's bound, the quality of the paper, the beautiful illustrations. I'm in... Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell This is supposed to be the Next Big Thing in Fantasy. I'll need something lightweight to balance out all the heavy stuff weighing down my night table. I'm hoping this is it. If not, there are a LOT of comics and graphic novels to read! (I'm not ALWAYS pretentious!) Fight Me by Austin Grossman This wasn’t on the first list I submitted, but that was just a foolish oversight on my part. I was boxing up a bunch of books for reasons that wouldn’t interest anyone and there was Austin’s latest novel, somehow unread. I know nothing about it other than that it was written by Austin Grossman, which is all I really need to know. If you don’t know who Austin is, check his game design credits – System Shock, Deus Ex and more. He’s helped me on most of my games. He also happens to be a wonderful novelist. Fight Me is his latest, but you should check out Soon I Will Be Invincible and, if you want a peek behind the curtain of game development, his novel You is a great way to see what it’s like at a game dev studio... with monsters. The City And Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami This was another late entry – it just came out the day I submitted this list but it had to be included. I love Murakami. His brand of magical realism just does it for me. I could recommend ALL of his books and hate to single any out but if you’ve never given him a shot, you could do worse than start with 1Q84. But, really, he hasn’t written a bad book so start anywhere and prepare to have your view of reality changed. Playing With Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World by Kelly Clancy This book showed up in The Economist’s list of best books of the year this week and, given its title and subject matter, I pretty much had to make it a last minute addition to my list. It’s a history of games from a political, military, psychological, philosophical and, I understand, just plain fun perspective. Sounds both useful and, well, fun. It’s gotta be on my could-be-next list. I've been collecting quotes for decades so this is going to be both easy and hard. Easy because I have a lot to choose from. Hard because I have a lot to choose from. I'm tempted to pass on this for now - someday I'm going to start up a Quote a Day website where I provide a quote, talk about why it's interesting in general and why it's important to me, personally. Okay, here's one (out of, literally, thousands) in my collection. It sang to me. (Anyone I might work for should stop reading here!) "I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares." - Saul Bass (As a note, Saul Bass created some of the most memorable film title sequences of all time. A second-to-none visual designer. Look him up. There's lots of his work on YouTube...) Ack. Another one where I have to list several! I'll list just six (and regret the ones I've forgotten immediately after I finish this!) Time And Again by Jack Finney I love time travel stories and this is a doozy. My sister read this first, reading it in one sitting. She passed it along to my father, who read it in one sitting. He passed it along... and, well, you get the idea. Totally fun. No more, no less. It's a popcorn read, but nothing wrong with that. Organizing Genius by Warren Bennis This book by noted leadership thinker describes several what he calls "great groups" - teams that created great, innovative, world-changing things. He doesn't offer instructions about how to create them, but describes their characteristics and the shared circumstances that allowed them to come into being and flourish. I LOVE this book. It describes a couple of teams I've been lucky enough to work with. That said, I'll warn you that my current team, when I had them read it, HATED it. I won't go into why here. (Hey, I want to intrigue you.) Read it yourself and see what you think. I'm happy to discuss it. The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp Okay. This is simply the Best Book I've Ever Read About Creativity. Tharp is a world-renowned choreographer and, yes, there's an element of autobiography here (that got me seriously obsessed with ballet for a while, about which I'm still simmeringly interested). The autobiographical stuff is fascinating. I mean, you wouldn't believe the people Tharp has worked with. It's like a who's who of the arts community. But her discussion of her process and how it can be applied to any medium is just (insert four letter word here) brilliant. GO READ THIS! The Creative Act by Rick Rubin Rubin's book shares some characteristics with Tharp's Creative Habit, but it has its own - dare I say it? - "hippie" vibe. The first third of the book lays that stuff on pretty thick, to the point where I almost stopped reading. Man, am I glad I stuck with it! The last two-thirds of the book are (insert four letter word here) incredible. I said earlier that I collect quotes. I got a LOT of them from this book. There's insight on every damn page. The Timeless Way Of Building by Christopher Alexander I keep a copy of Timeless Way of Building by my bed and read a passage when I need to lower my blood pressure. Alexander invented the idea of Pattern Languages, which have become an important part of software development, and that's very much in evidence here. Be warned, Alexander was an architect and he had his hippie-dippie aspect, so there's nothing about software in this book and there's some stuff here that might send left-brain folks spinning off into some alternate universe. But if you can get past that, the writing is beautiful and the descriptions of spaces that are "alive" are pretty wonderful. Designing Disney by John Hench Disney's Imagineers are among the smartest, most creative people on the planet. No fooling. This book, by an Imagineer who was there at the very beginning of the effort that led to Disneyland in 1955 has lots of lessons to teach us - especially world-builders. The creation of spaces that tell stories, ways of directing players without leading them around by the nose, color to create emotions... All that and more is here. There's so much to learn in what's a surprisingly compact read. This may be the toughest question of all. I'm not sure there are ANY books I want to see adapted to a game. I mean, books are wonderful as books, and games are wonderful as games. The two media don't need each other. That said, let me see... okay, here's one almost entirely selfish one: Wildcards edited by George R.R. Martin Wildcards is a shared world anthology created and edited by George R.R. Martin (yeah, the guy who writes the Song of Ice and Fire books, now and forever known as Game of Thrones). It's a "what if superheroes and villains and vaguely monstrous things existed in an alternate version of our world." (Man, does that not do it justice!) The first book came out in 1987 so it's been around for a while, basically as long as Watchmen, the obvious competition. I think it's on its 25 book or something. (Don't quote me on that.) I say it's here selfishly because a lot of the writers in the series are friends of mine and I love their work. In one case, I love the writer herself - my wife Caroline writes with George in the series. She's created some memorable characters and, if I say so myself, written some terrific stories. But enough tooting my wife's horn. If you want to give the series a try, you can start with the very first book or you can dive in with one called Inside Straight. One of those two - don't start anywhere else or you're likely to be confused. And if you just want more information, check out the Wikipedia page. I've tried to get every company I've worked for to license the rights to Wildcards and make a game but haven't had any luck. Ok, Warren wins. Or, is at least tied with Dan . Book for now!Unique among ‘Person of the Year’ designees, Donald Trump gets a fact-check from Time magazineWall Street stocks surged to fresh records Wednesday on hopes about easing US monetary policy, shrugging off political upheaval in South Korea and France. All three major US indices scored records, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average finishing above 45,000 for the first time. "The market at this point is looking for excuses to go up, and there's not really anything that might work against that narrative," said Steve Sosnick of Interactive Brokers. "Over the last couple of days, it's managed to ignore all sorts of inconvenient things and decided that the situation in France doesn't matter for them," Sosnick said of the stock market. "The situation in Korea doesn't matter." South Korea's stock market fell less than feared and the won rebounded from earlier losses after President Yoon Suk Yeol swiftly reversed a decision to impose martial law. In Europe, Paris stocks managed to advance as France's government faced looming no-confidence votes. Late Wednesday in Paris, French lawmakers voted to oust the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier after just three months in office, pushing the country further into political uncertainty. For the first time in over sixty years, the National Assembly lower house toppled the incumbent government, approving a no-confidence motion that had been proposed by the hard left but which crucially was backed by the far-right headed by Marine Le Pen. "Political turmoil in both France and South Korea provide a uncertain backdrop for global markets, with the likely removal of both Barnier and Yoon bringing the potential for both countries to find a fresh direction," said Joshua Mahony, chief market analyst at Scope Markets. Thomas Mathews, head of Asia-Pacific markets at Capital Economics, said the losses in Seoul could have been "much worse" had the president not aborted his plan. "Rarely does a combined sell-off in a country's stocks, bonds and currency feel like a relief rally," he said. Oil prices turned lower after surging around 2.5 percent Tuesday, mainly after the United States sanctioned 35 companies and ships it accused of involvement with Iran's "shadow fleet" illicitly selling Iranian oil to foreign markets. Major producers at the OPEC+ grouping led by Saudi Arabia and Russia were set to meet Thursday to discuss extending output limits. Back in New York, major indices were led by the Nasdaq, which piled on 1.3 percent to finish at a third straight record. Wednesday's gains came after payroll firm ADP said US private-sector hiring in November came in at a lower-than-expected 146,000 jobs, while a survey from the Institute for Supply Management showed weaker sentiment than expected in the services sector. But the lackluster data boosts expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates later this month. At a New York conference, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell refrained from tipping his hand, but he "didn't say anything that would scare the market," said Briefing.com analyst Patrick O'Hare. O'Hare noted that Wednesday's gains were led by large tech names such as Nvidia and Microsoft, which are major AI players. The boost followed strong results from Salesforce, which was the biggest gainer in the Dow with an 11 percent jump. 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It took a long time, but Victorian MP Georgie Purcell speaks openly about her past. As a former stripper, and now an advocate for sex workers’ rights in Victoria and nationwide, she knows firsthand just how harmful stigmas and stereotypes around sex work can be. Purcell also knows firsthand the power of normalising the conversation about sex work. And since recent legislation in Belgium granting sex workers greater labour rights came into effect, she hopes it will make a difference in Australia. “I was absolutely stoked to see the news coming out of Belgium,” Purcell told . “I think it’s a really good example of how, when we normalise sex work and treat is as any other job, we can make progress.” Legal experts and advocates for sex work say that Belgium has set a strong standard for other countries to follow in terms of employment rights. But what is holding progress back the most around the world – especially in Australia – is discrimination against sex workers. While sex work has been decriminalised in most states and territories in Australia, the “hangover” of criminalisation means sex workers continue to be discriminated against and treated differently to any other worker in any other industry. “We don’t criticise other people who use their bodies for labour, such as construction workers or tradies, and that’s exactly what sex workers are doing,” Purcell says. “And they deserve to have the same rights as any other worker around the country.” What happened in Belgium? On Sunday, new laws came into effect that will grant sex workers in Belgium a raft of labour rights they previously were not entitled to. Sex work in Belgium has been legal since it was decriminalised in 2022, but employees in the industry lacked several labour rights that other industries have access to. Under the new legislation, sex workers will be eligible to sign formal employment contracts, which will give them access to benefits such as health insurance, paid leave, maternity benefits, unemployment support and pensions. There will also be stricter rules for employers in the industry to follow, including working hours, pay and implementing safety measures like clean linens, condoms, hygiene products and emergency buttons in workspaces. Isabelle Jaramillo is the coordinator of Espace P and was heavily involved in the advocacy and drafting of the laws. Speaking to the , she described the legislation as an “incredible step forward”. “It means their profession can finally be recognised as legitimate by the Belgian state,” Jaramillo said. “From the employer’s perspective, this will also be a revolution. They’ll have to apply for a state authorisation to hire sex workers. “Under the previous legislation, hiring someone for sex work automatically made you a pimp, even if the arrangement was consensual. Now, they’ll have to apply for state authorisation to hire employees.” Emily Smith is a Senior Lawyer at Southside Justice, a free legal service for people on low incomes in Melbourne’s south. As far as she knows, the legislation in Belgium confers “unprecedented workplace and social protections to sex workers”. But how effective this legislation will be in breaking down stigmas and stereotypes depends on how the law is socialised and enforced. “Though, Belgium is setting a great example of sex work being treated like any other industry when it comes to worker entitlements and protections,” Smith says. What about in Australia? Sex work has been decriminalised in NSW, the Northern Territory, Victoria and Queensland. In the ACT, sex work is legal but regulated, while in Western Australia and Tasmania, it is partially criminalised. Sex work is fully criminalised in South Australia. Most sex workers in Australia work as sole traders or as independent contractors – similar to professions like GPs and personal trainers. As Mish Pony, the CEO of Scarlet Alliance (the Australian Sex Workers Association) explains, legislation mirroring Belgium’s new laws wouldn’t necessarily translate to the Australian sex work context. “Independent contractors in Australia generally don’t have access to sick leave, annual leave, maternity leave, unfair dismissal,” Pony says, “but they generally still have access to work health and safety protections and some industrial protections. “There have been recent reforms that allow independent contractors to take unfair contract terms to the Fair Work Commission which is a good step to improving the rights of independent contractors.” But these steps, while important and progressive, don’t mark the end of the line for progress. Emily Smith from Southside Justice said there is still an “imbalance of power” between sex service premises owners/operators/managers and individual sex workers. “Sex workers are rarely employees, and instead told they are independent contractors for which no employee entitlements or protections are afforded,” Smith said. “Sham contracting can be challenged in a federal court, but sex workers need access to timely legal assistance in order to do so.” Meanwhile, Georgie Purcell MP in the Victorian parliament, alongside other crossbenchers and independents, is still fighting for better rights and working conditions for sex workers. Despite Victoria decriminalising sex work in 2022, Purcell says the rollout of this has been limited, with many sex workers finding themselves with “no where to turn” if they feel unsafe at work, or unsure of their working rights. “Decriminalisation is simply not enough,” Purcell says. “It’s a good starting point, and we’ve done that here in Victoria, but for the most part, it can still be an insecure job, and it can be an unsafe job. “I think any change in legislation in the space of sex work that improves their safety and their right to work is a really good thing, because it not only protects them, but it introduces a conversation into the pubic domain, and we know that the more this is spoken about, the more normalised it is. “I’m really frustrated by the conversation in the Victorian parliament, because it seems for many politicians, this conversation either makes them uncomfortable or they’re opposed to it.” Emily Smith from Southside Justice describes this opposition and discomfort around the sex work industry as a “hangover” from criminalisation, which was overturned in Victoria only in the last couple of years. “Sex workers in Victoria continue to experience a hangover from criminalisation of stigma, prejudice and discrimination in the community and in public services preventing full and safe accessibility,” Smith said. ‘Sex workers are ordinary people’ In October this year, a sex worker in Melbourne was from her home after a flyer alerting neighbours of her line of work resulted in a complaint to the council, a subsequent investigation, and a termination of her rental agreement with her landlord. It’s not just housing insecurity sex workers face – in many cases, their lives are at risk. Yet stigma and stereotypes result in serious injustice for women killed in the sex work industry. Last month, 24-year-old Xiaozheng Lin to plead guilty to two charges of manslaughter, just one month before he was supposed to face a double-murder trial. He is charged with the deaths of Yuqi Luo, 31, and Hyun Sook Jeon, 51 – two sex workers he killed within days of one another. Purcell says cases like these serve not just as a “warning sign” about the dangers of stigmas, but as “an indication that we can and must do better”. “By introducing regular working rights and regular working conditions that most other workers already have access to, it helps to show sex work for what it really is – it’s like any other job,” Purcell says. “Sex workers are just ordinary people. Someone you know and someone you love is or was a sex worker.”Naxal links? 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For manufacturers, this analysis helps align innovation efforts with consumer demands and regulatory trends, while investors and decision-makers gain a deeper understanding of economic risks and supply chain vulnerabilities, allowing them to make more informed strategic choices. Our goal is to provide stakeholders with the knowledge needed to confidently and successfully navigate the hvac system maintenance service market. Competitive Landscape Our in-depth examination of the hvac system maintenance service market's competitive landscape highlights key players, scrutinizing their strategies and impacts on the industry. By analyzing the approaches of major companies, stakeholders gain a valuable understanding of market dynamics and can leverage these insights to identify growth opportunities, innovate, and make informed strategic decisions. Market Segmentation The report begins with a detailed analysis of the unique characteristics defining each segment within the hvac system maintenance service market. Segmentation can occur across various dimensions, including product types, customer demographics, or specific use cases. Understanding these differences allows stakeholders to tailor their strategies, products, and marketing efforts to meet the specific needs of each segment, enhancing competitive positioning and maximizing opportunities for success. Market Segments: Product Type: Regular Inspection and Maintenance Services Troubleshooting and Repair Services Application: Residential Commercial Industrial Market Size and Segment Growth Potential A crucial part of the report focuses on understanding the size and significance of each market segment. We provide quantitative data that illustrates the market share and contribution of each segment, enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions regarding resource allocation, strategic prioritization, and investment. This section offers insights into the growth potential of each segment, including factors driving future expansion, evolving consumer preferences, and technological adoption. Conclusion This report serves as a strategic guide for stakeholders in the hvac system maintenance service market, offering comprehensive insights into market segmentation, competitive dynamics, and growth potential. By understanding the market's complexities and emerging opportunities, industry participants can make well-informed decisions that drive success and innovation in this rapidly evolving market. 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