In the past few months, a wave of tech corporations have announced significant staff cuts and attributed them to efficiency gains driven by artificial intelligence (AI).
Companies such as Atlassian, Block and Amazon have announced they would lay off thousands of employees due to increased reliance on AI.
The narrative these companies offer is consistent: AI is making human labour replaceable, and responsible management demands adjustment.
The evidence, however, tells a more nuanced story.
U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy, a Biden appointee, granted a motion by the American Academy of Pediatrics for a preliminary injunction against the reduced childhood immunization schedule earlier this year, along with the remaking of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, invalidating all votes made by the committee since.
Seems like something of a solution for some folks. There is probably a lot of 'excess' warehouse space around the country that this would be a better use for than ICE concentration camps.
Instead of leaving people in the cold, Minneapolis opens warehouse of indoor tiny homes for homeless
Donald Trump menaces the world. He’s global public enemy number one. He’s steadily losing the illegal war with Iran he started but cannot stop. His violence-addicted Israeli sidekick, Benjamin Netanyahu, is terrorising Lebanon. And ordinary people everywhere, their security threatened, face a huge economic bill for his reckless folly.
Humiliating failure now looms, as symbolically damaging to US global standing and national self-esteem as Afghanistan or Iraq, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
One thing that seriously pisses me off is how GOP politicians have actively been convincing the people to do things that obviously result in illnesses running rampant, and now everyone is sicker as a result. Each time I catch an illness reminds me of it. >:(
#IRAN 🇮🇷 has not launched an #unprovoked conventional invasion or war of conquest against another nation in thousands of years.
• The International Criminal Court ( #ICC) issued arrest warrants for Benjamin #Netanyahu and Yoav #Gallant for #warcrimes and crimes against humanity, specifically for the #starvation of #children and civilians as a method of warfare.
• #Israel 🇮🇱 is currently being prosecuted for #genocide at the International Court of Justice ( #ICJ), which has issued multiple legally binding orders to stop genocidal acts and end the starvation of the population in #Gaza.
• For decades, Israel has been found by the United Nations 🇺🇳 and international legal bodies to be in illegal occupation of Palestinian land, involving the theft of territory and the systematic oppression of the population.
• In the last year alone, Israel 🇮🇱 has launched military strikes and operations across at least six territories: #Gaza, the #WestBank, #Lebanon 🇱🇧 , #Syria 🇸🇾 , #Yemen 🇾🇪 , and #Iran 🇮🇷 .
• The Zionist controlled #US has repeatedly used its veto power to block UN Security Council resolutions (To block #Israel from being held accountable for crimes against humanity) for a ceasefire and has moved to sanction ICC officials to prevent the enforcement of the arrest warrants.
Your car simply watches and decides whether you’re fit to drive If the AI determines you’re impaired, it can prevent ignition startup or limit vehicle speed. Think Minority Report, but for your morning commute.
Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027
Your next car purchase comes with an unwelcome passenger: a federal mandate requiring surveillance technology that monitors your every blink, glance, and head nod. Thanks to Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, NHTSA must finalize rules forcing all new passenger vehicles to include “advanced impaired driving prevention technology”—essentially turning your dashboard into a judgment-free zone that’s anything but judgment-free. ... Full article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/federal-surveillance-tech-becomes-mandatory-161321992.html #car #safety #AI #driving
There’s a growing interest in mining the ocean seabed for minerals essential to technology. But whose minerals are they? A Law of the Sea scholar explains.
During the Revolutionary War, colonial military and political leaders desperately sought the support of Indigenous nations. Colonial negotiators’ treaty with the Delaware Nation, signed on Septembe…
Pete Hegseth’s Worrisome Press Briefing If you want to believe the Iran war is going as planned, don’t listen to the defense secretary. By Jonathan Chait
However well or poorly you think the excursion in Iran, as President Trump calls it, is going, you might want to lower your assessment after Pete Hegseth’s press conference today.
The defense secretary, who calls himself the “secretary of war” but might need to change his title to “excursion secretary,” addressed the public after CNN reported that the administration had erroneously assumed that Iran would keep the Strait of Hormuz open. Since the war began, Iran has mined the strait, fired on ships, choked off traffic, and caused the price of oil and other commodities to soar. Hegseth’s response is that we shouldn’t worry our pretty little heads about a minor body of water. “They are exercising sheer desperation in the straits of Hormuz,” he said. “Something we’re dealing with. We have been dealing with it and don’t need to worry about it.”
Hegseth went on to call CNN’s report “patently ridiculous” and “fake news.” Yet when he elaborated, he seemed to inadvertently give it credence.
“For decades, Iran has threatened shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” he said. “This is always what they do—hold the strait hostage.” Read: ‘We would be entering a completely different world’ It’s true that Iran has long threatened to close the strait. The accusation is that the administration bungled by not believing that Iran would follow through on its threats. Hegseth’s blithe assurance that Iran is behaving no differently from before confirms the report that he is trying to discredit.
Hegseth’s presentation gave no remotely skeptical viewer any new reasons to trust that the administration expected the war to go as it has nor that there is a realistic plan to end it. Instead, his briefing suggests he believes that the administration’s only challenge in the Middle East is to prevent news organizations from reporting on anything but Iran’s desperation. Hegseth is fond of the trick of using a dismissive tone while actually conceding skeptics’ main point. Returning to the topic of the strait, he casually insisted, “The only thing prohibiting transit in the straits right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open for transit should Iran not do that.”
Well, yes. Everybody understands why the strait is closed. Nobody is saying that the Strait of Hormuz is closed because Trump hates oil tankers. By pointing out that the enemy is to blame for doing the bad thing, he is reinforcing the suspicion that he didn’t expect the bad thing to happen.
Hegseth urged reporters to focus on more important developments, such as, “We know the new so-called not-so-supreme leader is wounded and likely disfigured.”
It’s understandable that a man who installed a makeup studio at the Pentagon and expelled photojournalists for shooting him at an unflattering angle would consider disfigurement an especially devastating strategic setback. But given that the administration has never listed making Iran’s mullahs less attractive as a primary war objective, this is a minor comfort.
Also, a small point on trash-talking: You can call him the “so-called supreme leader” or the “not-so-supreme leader,” but combining the two insults negates them both. He is not “the so-called not-so-supreme leader,” because he is not calling himself the not-so-supreme leader.
Hegseth mainly berated news outlets for failing to cover the war in the propagandistic fashion that he’d practiced as a Fox News talking head. He quoted a CNN chyron that read Mideast War Intensifies. A better chyron, he suggested, would have been Iran increasingly desperate.
In fact, a headline emphasizing Iran’s motives and state of mind would be less objective than one emphasizing what the parties to the war are actually doing. But objectivity is the opposite of Hegseth’s intent. “The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better,” he said, referring to the Trump ally who heads Paramount Skydance and will soon acquire CNN.
Trump seems to have used the threat of regulatory pressure to install his friends at CNN. Hegseth is openly asking the new ownership to crack down on reporting that casts an unflattering light on the administration’s behavior. Cracking down on reporting is definitely the kind of priority Trump and Hegseth would care about. But it does not seem like what they’d emphasize if the war were going smoothly.
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