ResearchBuzz: FirehoseWashington Post: Elon Musk’s near-daily online posts about race are turning off some fans. This link goes to a Yahoo-syndicated version of the article with no paywall. “Over the past seven months, 6 percent of Musk’s posts on X, a total of about 850, have been about race, nearly triple the rate for the previous two years. More than half of those posts have used the word ‘white.’ The […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/25/washington-post-elon-musks-near-daily-online-posts-about-race-are-turning-off-some-fans/
CBC OttawaPhase 1 of public outreach on proposed high-speed rail network wraps Friday night
Thousands of "open and constructive exchanges" have taken place and will help shed light on local concerns and needs, the Crown corporation behind the project wrote in a blog post earlier this week.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/deadline-to-for-public-comments-on-alto-high-speed-rail-midnight-april-24-9.7176086?cmp=rss
Thousands of "open and constructive exchanges" have taken place and will help shed light on local concerns and needs, the Crown corporation behind the project wrote in a blog post earlier this week.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/deadline-to-for-public-comments-on-alto-high-speed-rail-midnight-april-24-9.7176086?cmp=rss
Search Engine Journal: Gen Z Workers Pick Human-Only Output Over AI-Assisted. “Gen Z workers surveyed said they would trust human-only work over AI-assisted output by more than 2-to-1. The findings come from a new survey by the Walton Family Foundation, GSV Ventures and Gallup.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/24/search-engine-journal-gen-z-workers-pick-human-only-output-over-ai-assisted/
The Daily Free Press (Boston University): BU students react to OpenAI’s Sora shutdown with relief, fear about artist livelihoods. “Although OpenAI did not provide a concrete reason for terminating Sora, it appears the shutdown was largely driven by financial factors, according to The New York Times. OpenAI earned about $13 billion in revenue, but it expects to spend about $100 billion over […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/23/the-daily-free-press-bu-students-react-to-openais-sora-shutdown-with-relief-fear-about-artist-livelihoods/
The Daily Free Press: BU students react to OpenAI’s Sora shutdown with relief, fear about artist livelihoods
The Daily Free Press (Boston University): BU students react to OpenAI’s Sora shutdown with relief, fear about artist livelihoods. “Although OpenAI did not provide a concrete reason for termin…
Fickle FuturesPOPULISM 101:
You have to be popular for populism to work.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/22/trump-approval-slips-polls-midterms
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Jason §The Fickle FuturistPOPULISM 101:
You have to be popular for populism to work.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/22/trump-approval-slips-polls-midterms
#populism #Trump2026 #midterms #USpolitics #publicopinion #Masto #JasonSpeaks
Susan VilleTom’s Hardware: Virginia voter support for new data centers collapses from 69% in 2023 to 35% in new poll — Multi-gigawatt, 37-building Digital Gateway project abandoned. “Just 35% of Virginia voters now say they would be comfortable with a new data center going up in their community, down from 69% in 2023, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll published Wednesday.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/22/toms-hardware-virginia-voter-support-for-new-data-centers-collapses-from-69-in-2023-to-35-in-new-poll-multi-gigawatt-37-building-digital-gateway-project-abandoned/
Tom’s Hardware: Virginia voter support for new data centers collapses from 69% in 2023 to 35% in new poll — Multi-gigawatt, 37-building Digital Gateway project abandoned
Tom’s Hardware: Virginia voter support for new data centers collapses from 69% in 2023 to 35% in new poll — Multi-gigawatt, 37-building Digital Gateway project abandoned. “Just 35% of V…
University of Michigan: A pocket-sized personal trainer: AI-written texts aim to get older adults moving. “Artificial intelligence can write text messages encouraging physical activity that most older adults consider appropriate and good quality, but their feelings about AI—and if they know AI wrote the message—impact their response, a new study in the Journals of Gerontology suggests.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/17/a-pocket-sized-personal-trainer-ai-written-texts-aim-to-get-older-adults-moving-university-of-michigan/
A pocket-sized personal trainer: AI-written texts aim to get older adults moving (University of Michigan)
University of Michigan: A pocket-sized personal trainer: AI-written texts aim to get older adults moving. “Artificial intelligence can write text messages encouraging physical activity that m…
WIST QuotationsLaws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. The penalty may be unfair, unrighteous, illogical, and a cruelty; no mater, it will be inflicted, just the same.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident”
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