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Why is the Trump administration calling bike lanes ‘DEI’? | Dave Schilling
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The ratings of these experts are backed by in-depth research of a company's financials, and thorough analysis of the factors affecting business performance.
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NFL and midterm elections set up prediction markets for a critical fall season
The 2025 football season and 2024 presidential election pushed prediction markets into the prominence they enjoy today.
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Xi says China will take lead to foster AI, tech cooperation among BRICS countries
China will take the lead to help foster artificial-intelligence collaboration and development among developing-economy countries, President Xi Jinping said.
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‘Trump accounts’ promise to mint child millionaires. Experts have their doubts
President has hyped growth of federal investment accounts to help US children – for his own political gain Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump has scrapped rules that made childcare more affordable and pushed to cut funding for the nation’s public schools . But with midterm elections fast approaching and his approval ratings very low, the US president has repeatedly trumpeted a two-month-old program designed to help the nation’s children. That program, unhumbly named “ Trump accounts ”, calls for the federal government to give a one-time $1,000 seed deposit to every newborn whose family applies. In campaign speeches this summer , Trump has sought to milk these accounts for maximum political advantage, making big promises about how much these accounts will help the nation’s children. In a speech in Las Vegas last month, Trump hailed the program, saying: “It’s really giving [c
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Many professionals take continuing education. Let’s add etiquette classes | Gene Marks
This type of training is needed now more than ever, as the American workplace gets more and more diverse As a certified public accountant, I’m required to earn at least 80 hours every two years of continuing professional education credits. Many other professions and trades, including lawyers, healthcare professionals, engineers, electricians, plumbers and certain contractors, have similar requirements. It’s a good idea. These professional requirements often also include ethics training. That’s a good idea too. But just getting a refresher on ethics isn’t enough. Something else is needed – something that’s even more important: etiquette. Continue reading...
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AI will transform capitalism – but how?
Technology is going to drastically reshape the economy, and it’s within our power to decide what that looks like The idea that autonomous, thinking machines may one day destroy property, hierarchy and inequality is as old as western political thought. In Aristotle’s Politics, the philosopher cites a fantasy from the Iliad, in which machines begin to act independently of human direction, concluding: “If every tool could perform its own work when ordered, or by seeing what to do in advance … if thus shuttles wove and quills played harps of themselves, master-craftsmen would have no need of assistants and masters no need of slaves.” The dream that automation could inaugurate a classless society is also present in the writings of Karl Marx. In 1858 he imagined the replacement of intellectual property with “socialised knowledge”, which would merge into a “general intellect”, blowing the found