The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today (https://t.co/2SonuBrsvY)
Beyond the particular facts of the story, there's a pattern of congress people going missing for weeks at a time in recent years. It's a symptom of how irrelevant the legislative branch of government has become in USA.
Bezos’s new opinion section has 515 YouTube subscribers. CBS News is at historic ratings lows. The Daily Wire is shedding audience. The billionaires paying for all of it say it doesn’t matter. https://t.co/uGX8HHyqRD
Staffing really is the shadow of covid. working in a Barnes that used to have 3 times the staff 10 years ago and you can tell due to left over infrastructure that goes unused. Crazy how much retail space is a home for ghosts from the nuclear bomb of covid like empty sani bottles
they were trying to secure a fair contract for three years, the state conceded in three days. this is why they dont want you to unionize your workplace
The average pay of housekeepers in New York City hotels will increase to more than $100,000 a year as part of a contract settlement between an industry trade group and a powerful union. https://t.co/Jb95HIXQcL
The complaints from private grocery store owners in the article are a good sign that a public rival could actually lower prices and improve quality and help NYC residents
As family homelessness hits record highs, school districts are offering parking lots as safe sites for students and their families to sleep at night https://t.co/PYABAl9XCH
Seems bad.
"A recent audit by the auditor general of Ontario found that AI scribes recommended by the provincial government regularly generated incorrect, incomplete and hallucinated information that could “potentially result in inadequate or harmful treatment plans."
I know social workers in NYC who are being forced to use this note-taking technology and they have no way of pushing back and clients have no idea it is being used. This is really really really bad in a clinical context.
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"In the midst of all of this, it seems that Dunne found something about the city strangely soothing—its transience and uniformity, the feeling that people there were living not in the moment but in the long aftermath of whatever the moment had been."