Category: Economics
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic Computer-generated text, images, video, and audio will transform the way countless industries do business, the most bullish investors believe, boosting efficiency everywhere from the creative arts, to law, to computer programming. But the working conditions of data labelers reveal…
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Fuck Dem Kids 2.0
It’s 2023, and one of U.S. history’s most shitty past times is back with a vengeance: Child Labor. I wrote in a previous post that the United States of America’s bolstering of caring about the welfare of children in this nation. Yet it fails children and teens at every turn. The good old U.S.A. is…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Uganda’s anti-gay bill is the latest and worst to target LGBTQ Africans “Queer people don’t owe anyone anything, but we also deserve to live just like everyone else.” #Uganda #lgtbqia #HumanRights #Africa Atlanta shuts down strategic park in ‘Cop City’ protest movement “I never anticipated this – that Dekalb would do the swap, or that…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Omar Vazquez
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week we will highlight an individual who embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the entrepreneur, builder, gardener, and innovator Omar de Jesus…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
China scores another diplomatic victory as Iran-Saudi Arabia reconciliation advances Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed Thursday to reopen diplomatic missions in their respective capitals and in additional cities, Iran’s semiofficial news agency said. ISNA reported the foreign ministers had reached the agreement in Beijing. The deal also calls for the countries to study the prospects…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Weaponizing e-girls: How the US military uses YouTube and TikTok to improve its image The Pentagon understands that both in terms of politics and combat effectiveness, it’s dangerous to ignore the declining popularity of the armed forces. So, in order to recruit more young people, the military is brushing up its image not only through…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
France: the struggle surges forward – Macron must fall! Young people were out in force on Thursday, and huge general assemblies have sprung up in many places. School students mobilised in more than 400 high-schools. University occupations started in 80 universities across the country, including in the traditionally right-wing Paris-Panthéon Assas university, which was blocked…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Dr. Jason Arday
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s “Evolved Man of the Week” profile. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved person, famous and non-famous individual alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the professor, author, and inspirational Brit, Dr.…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Amid mass strikes, France’s Morenoite Révolution permanente group embraces capitalist rule For nearly two months, mass protest strikes by millions of workers and youth have continued in France against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension cuts. Three-quarters of the French people oppose the cuts, and 60 percent want a general strike to halt the economy and bring down Macron. Amid the greatest…
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Take Me Home
This January, I moved with my wife and four month old to Amsterdam for what could finally be a permanent job. I’ve been laughing because my dream was to live in Europe, particularly Amsterdam, began when I watched The Carter documentary in grad school. It opens with someone asking Lil’ Wayne’s manager, “So why Amsterdam?”…
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