Paula Schaap

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Finance writer and editor, who also writes about science and religion.
My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:
Snow-dusted Palisades at sunset.

THREAD

The latest filing by Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation suit against Fox nails something critics have long argued for.

Fox is not a news organization. It's something else.

But what is this other thing? In this thread, I will try to answer that.

Next slide, please. 1/

#journalism #fox #uspol #uspolitics

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Curious what people think about the Times publishing this piece, aside from opinions about the professor's ideas. (Full disclosure: I think his views are reprehensible.)

A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean? https://nyti.ms/3RSYSOg

A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?

Yusuke Narita says he is mainly addressing a growing effort to revamp Japan’s age-based hierarchies. Still, he has pushed the country’s hottest button.

The New York Times

Fun fact - #layoffs are a social contagion amongst businesses, and do little (to nothing) to actually help companies recover during economic downturns.

Don’t take my word for it - this comes from years of study and scholarly research:

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/

What explains recent tech layoffs, and why should we be worried? | Stanford News

As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said.

Stanford News
Hey big #tech. #Unionize You’re not special, they’ll happily just fire you to make the next quarter slightly more profitable.
@arindube This is a joke, yes?
@jayrosen_nyu Wonder if folks at Harvard are beginning to wonder why they keep sending us, as it was once said, their best and brightest.
@elaineellisthomas That is hilarious!