In Washington, a new report about college enrollment raises red flags for employers - The Daily Chronicle
Soon, around 70% of jobs in Washington state will require some education beyond high school. Yet the rate of homegrown high school grads earning credentials here is on the decline, a new report says.
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It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine
A developer used widely available AI tools to generate anti-Russian tweets and articles. The project is intended to highlight how cheap and easy it has become to create propaganda at scale.
What an Endless Conversation with Werner Herzog Can Teach Us about AI
An AI-generated conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek is definitely entertaining, but it also illustrates the crisis of misinformation beginning to befall us
I’ve written about this topic before. It is an important topic and I want to raise it again. Boards often discuss CEO performance without really knowing how things work inside the company. And CEOs often have very little visibility to how they are doing and what the board thinks about their performance. When you work […]
Study: ‘Truly Being Seen’ Still Ranks Among Worst Possible Experiences In Human Existence
STANFORD, CA—In the results of a new study published in the Journal Of Woe, researchers from Stanford University revealed Tuesday that “truly being seen” still ranks among the worst possible experiences in human existence. “We’ve found conclusive evidence that realizing somebody has managed to look past your…
Diane Elson, Market Socialism or Socialization of the Market?, NLR I/172, November–December 1988
The virtues of the market and the deficiencies of central planning have become common sense for many socialist economists, both in the capitalist countries and in those of ‘actually existing socialism’.
Some spirited defences have recently been made of non-market forms of economic co-ordination, particularly by Ernest Mandel, . . .
- The larger our past gets the smaller our present feels - The 2011 BAFTA award winning short film from Mikey Please. For full festival and awards info visit http://www.TheEaglemanStag.com Follow…
Pluralistic: How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth (24 August 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
World population is widely projected to peak around 2050-90 at roughly 9-11B, with ~40% living in Africa. World population would then decline. But how long, and how far? The median respondent in my Twitter