This is the cynical, grasping,stupid &doomed world that our billionaire masters expect us to work for now: "Routledge told staffâŚit was âextra importantâ to meet publishing targets for 2024. Why? [They'd] promised AI companies a certain quota of books to trainâŚLLMs" pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/28/r...
Informa, owner of academic publisher Taylor & Francis, sold everything to Microsoft to train Microsoftâs AIs earlier this year. Informa expects to take in over $75 million from its AI deals in âŚ
As I cooked dinner tonight, I realized that the presidential campaigns this year taught me that undercooked pork can give you brain worms⌠and I made sure to cook that food real good.
Iâm really hoping to get more details come Monday.
These are cute! Just got mine! Iâll have to wear it when our librarian comes and speaks to my classes
Iâm genuinely confused as to why a clear act of war on another recognized country isnât being centered in not just the US media coverage but also, international entities. Netanyahu was literally *inside* the UN headquarters giving the green light to this.
The Israeli armyâs radio quoted a military source saying that any person who was present in the targeted buildings âwill not come out alive.â The Lebanese Health Minister, Firas al-Abyad, said that some of the buildings targeted were âfull of civilian residents.â mondoweiss.net/2024/09/mass...
Israel completely flattened at least six residential buildings in Beirutâs southern Dahiya district with 2000-pound bombs amid claims that Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah was the target.
School pick ups will be tough since we drive. I donât feel safe out here putting my toddler in the bike trailer. We used to bike everywhere now with her I only drive. Iâve almost been hit a few times & weâve only been here a month.
Amazing! As a former charter teacher I can tell you they have the potential to cause extreme harm on their students and teachers.
I am not looking forward to living in Salem for the next month and a halfâŚ. Luckily I bike commute.
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Access to paid sick leave đ¤ is unequal: âŹď¸ In the top 25% of workers by wages, âĄď¸ 94% have access to paid sick days. âŹď¸ But in the bottom 25% of workers by wages, âĄď¸ only 58% have access to paid sick days. đ§ľ1/3 www.epi.org/blog/access-...
Absent federal action, states and localities have expanded workersâ ability to earn paid sick leave to care for themselves and their families. The results of these efforts over the past dozen years ar...
Ok - quick and dirty feed aggregating all the posts from profiles in a new "NWS Bots" list. I wasn't able to automate building the list, but will go back every so often and add more. I think you'd mentioned trying to add over the weekend so will plan to do a list refresh on Monday.