@crumbletiltskin

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It's spelt Canowindra, but it's pronounced Canowindra.

I really dont understand how you can make this comparison. In the 60s and 70s the vast majority of people were pretty much tech illiterate. we were slow to catch up. we had to learn something really foreign to us

now, a single person can run an corporate marketing dept. kids are doing bachelor degrees in a few months, you see AI everywhere

how is this not supercharged productivity?

https://fortune.com/article/why-do-thousands-of-ceos-believe-ai-not-having-impact-productivity-employment-study/

#ai #progress #tech

Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago

“You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics," economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow said in 1987.

Fortune
your landbastard

Labour continues to embed Palantir into our NHS.

#NHS #ukpol #palantir #uklabour #starmer

JERUSALEM, April 19 (Reuters) - The #Israeli military published for the first time a map of its new deployment line inside #Lebanon on Sunday, bringing dozens of mostly abandoned Lebanese villages under its control, ​days after a ceasefire with #Hezbollah took effect

These lands will never get returned back to Lebanon, like Syria never got the Golan back

The new Hungarian leader Péter Magyar came to chew bubble gum and lock up corrupt politicians… and he is all out of gum.

("Fidesz leaders" are the leaders in Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party)

Peter Thiel: the only man who read The Lord of the Rings and deeply identified with Sauron
Preach
warming myself on this post like it's a space heater

Out of 38 OECD countries, the US provides the worst healthcare for its people.

This time it killed Eric Tenant, 58, who needed cancer treatment, but instead of the US providing it, his healthcare insurer denied it as "unnecessary" four times — and then he died.

https://moneywise.com/insurance/health/insurance-prior-authorization-cancer-treatment-denial

West Virginia dad dies after insurer denied his $50,000 cancer treatment 4 times — 93% of patients face the same delays

The vast majority of patients who require prior authorization from their insurer face delays, which can result in permanent disability or even death.

Moneywise
How physicists found a new type of magnet hiding in plain sight

How the discovery of altermagnets could change physics and computing

Scientific American