AI was just used to design 16 new viruses.
While some laud this as progress, it can also be a massive biosecurity risk.
In the wrong hands, this could have catastrophic consequences.
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Every day, 8 planes travel between Hartford and NYC (LGA), a distance of 101 miles. We have to get a place where train travel makes these trips obsolete.
Despite being 10% of the population of NYC, Indianapolis occupies a larger area. A 2022 engineering study revealed that the city requires $1.07 billion annually to construct and maintain its transportation infrastructure. The entire city budget is $1.3 Billion. Sprawl is costly.
These two stories the same day in the @TorontoStar provide a great snapshot of the state of political economy in Canada today.
Which political parties have platforms that would check runaway executive compensation and reduce child poverty?
Good place to start!
Banning a student for holding a protest sign about tuition fees. And removing an *elected* governor because others complained about her tweet denouncing ‘thin blue line’ imagery. Memorial sounding more like a dictatorship than a university.
Billionaires lost $1.9 trillion in 2022.
Elon Musk lost $115 billion.
Jeff Bezos lost $80 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg lost $78 billion.
Say it with me, they can afford a wealth tax.
U of Regina, 2013:
"Faculty had also expressed concerns that non-academic jobs and costs had risen at the expense of academic priorities over the last decade, especially since Dr. Timmons took over as president in 2008."
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