Alex Jenkins

Editorial director, Contagious

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HUGE IF TRUE

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BBC News - One in six young people will not be in work or training in five years without action, report warns - BBC News
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'At Club Tropicana, the drinks were free. And that sounds pretty good when you don't have rent control'

The first episode of the Contagious podcast covers nostalgia, anemoia and why the past is haunting the present.

+ bonus disgusting Proust anecdote

https://t.co/0A3BKIvtpq

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"The World Meteorological Organization says that our planet is gaining much more heat energy than it can release"

BBC News - UN issues new climate warning as El Niño looms
https://t.co/CUDYcXK5Aq

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"AI-related enterprises have accounted for 80% of the stunning gains in the American stock market this year"

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BBC News - 'A million jobs in London could be changed by AI'
https://t.co/kLf0NoJHwD

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"Writers like Shakespeare, Milton and Jane Austen whose works have been handed on for centuries can no longer reach the next generation of readers. They are losing the ability to understand them"

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BBC News - More primary schools to merge as birth rates fall
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researchers from the University of Michigan Medical School published a report showing that the number of 12- to 25-year-olds getting GLP-1s from U.S. pharmacies jumped from 8,722 in 2020, to 60,567 in 2023, a massive 594.4 percent increase in just three years

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@BinetLes Good luck, Les!

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@stevenbjohnson Genuinely curious - how secure is the information being uploaded to NLM? How is it stored and used? I'd have thought it would be a barrier for this use case

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@faris You could make an argument that nearly the whole market has already been eaten by good enough. But now some of it's been automated.

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“Human musicians, composers, lyricists, and singers will be vastly affected and then completely disappear in the near future as the apps keep developing at a rapid pace,” he predicted.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Indian filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma abandons human musicians for AI-generated music https://t.co/qgpP3PF0xU

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BBC News - London Evening Standard prints final daily paper
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BBC News - Less than half of Generation Z watch broadcast TV
https://t.co/mYAJZc21gI

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BBC News - Will K-pop's AI experiment pay off?
https://t.co/N5W7BZLa1m

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"one toxic employee wipes out the gains for more than two superstars. In fact, a superstar, defined as the top 1% of workers in terms of productivity, adds about $5,000 per year to the company’s profit, while a toxic worker costs about $12,000 per year"

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Nothing is more costly to an organization’s culture than a toxic employee. https://t.co/SzB93i8zS2