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It's Thursday ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ……… https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6293408133336820692/posts/default/4521584127825814217
Initial unemployment claims fell to 194,000 from 200,00 last week while continuing claims rose by 25,000 to 1.73 million.I have no f%$#ing clue as to what is going on.Applications for US unemployment benefits fell to a three-month low last week, underscoring the stability of the labor market.Initial claims fell by 6,000 to 194,000 in the week ended Oct. 17, according to Labor

Headline of the Day https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6293408133336820692/posts/default/2522835674945458425
I Teach at a Business School. It’s Time to Shut Them Down
—Chris Marquis in The New York Times on how the MBA is destroying America. (Alternate link here)I'm inclined to agree.This fall, another cohort of ambitious young professionals has arrived at business schools around the world for two-year programs with price tags in the six figures. Their presence at some of the nicest and shiniest

Too Much Power https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6293408133336820692/posts/default/565993097864854740
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Elon Musk ordered that Starlink service to the Ukrainian be slowed.The fact that one person has the unilateral power to do this is almost as concerning as the fact that the specific person with this unilateral power a paranoid delusional white supremacist hypocrite.What is interesting here is how quickly this story came out.It seems to me that it is highly

If You Believe This ……… https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6293408133336820692/posts/default/2271650241394050614
……… I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn.The idea that it was just an AI hallucination that caused the suspension of the, "No Kings," Instagram account just as the protests were kicking off by the criminal enterprise formerly known as Facebook™ does not pass the smell test.Meta Platforms Inc. said an automated security system mistakenly suspended the Instagram account of the No Kings

The Ethical AI Company https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6293408133336820692/posts/default/8432726268000197019
Anthropic has been lobbying lawmakers for an AI, "Regulation," bill that, "Would let the government block a model’s release or use only if it poses a
foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages, or of killing
or seriously injuring more than 50 people."

Furthermore, this would only apply if, the risk is from, "The creation or
release of a biological weapon,