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☆ Onstage, a Feisty Olivia Rodrigo Tests Out Life After Girlhood
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Jon Caramanica | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As a pop star, Olivia Rodrigo wields a rather unusual arsenal of weapons. In just three years, she has achieved something approaching stratospheric fame — a four-times platinum debut album and a Grammy for best new artist — while somehow remaining an underdog. It’s in plenty of other places, too, giving her anguished entreaties an extra splash of zest. On Friday night at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, Calif., during the opening performance of the Guts World Tour, Rodrigo couldn’t get enough of that word. But mostly she used it casually, in between-song banter, not because she needed to, but because using it felt like getting away with something.

Persons: Olivia Rodrigo, —, ”, Rodrigo couldn’t, connote Organizations: Acrisure Locations: Palm Desert, Calif

☆ Government shutdown looms as new speaker struggles to control hardliners
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The move could head off the Washington holiday-season tradition of shutdown dramas and mammoth all-encompassing spending bills. But the chances that a GOP majority that has trouble passing any bill could deliver on this intricate plan seem very low. Time is critically short given the need to muscle a funding measure through both the House and Senate in five days. Trump looms over the House – and the year to comeHouse Democrats are yet to solidify their position but did note Saturday that spending cuts weren’t included in Johnson’s plan. Johnson pleads for a break from his hardlinersAs with the White House, Johnson’s language explains his strategy.

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But the move left hundreds more military promotions in limbo, still stymied by Mr. Tuberville’s objections. Mr. Schumer had been reluctant to force votes on individual nominees for fear of being seen as capitulating to Mr. Tuberville. “The Senate will overwhelmingly vote to confirm them, and these three honorable men will finally be able to assume their positions,” Mr. Schumer said on the Senate floor. “And the abortion policy that Senator Tuberville abhors will remain in place. Senator Tuberville will have accomplished nothing.”

Persons: Tommy Tuberville, Chuck Schumer, Eric Smith, Randy George, Charles Q, Brown Jr, Schumer, Tuberville, Roe, Wade, ” Mr, Tuberville abhors, ” Organizations: Republican, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, Joint Chiefs, Staff, Alabama, Pentagon Locations: Alabama, New York

☆ The ‘Perfect’ Handbag, According to Women in Their 20s, 30s, 40s and 70s
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Lizzy Wholley | Photographs F. Martin Ramin The Wall Street Journal | Prop Styling Jill Telesnicki For Rj Bennett Represents | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Interviews with style-savvy New Yorkers of different ages and luxury retailers proved that most everyone craves purse pockets. She’d prefer to skip a bag altogether. Not because she doesn’t like purses (“I used to buy bags all the time!” she said) but because she abhors lugging extra weight. “I do need a bag for certain things,” such as her lipstick, mirror and pout-shaped cosmetics pouch, she conceded. For her, incredible lightness trumps plentiful pockets.

Persons: Gen Xers, Linda Rodin

☆ A.I. offers 'magic elixir' for a slowing economy, says Raymond James. The best ways to play it
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Artificial intelligence may be the answer to a slowing economy, according to Raymond James. The Wall Street firm said AI is potentially the next "productivity catalyst" for a lackluster macro backdrop and outlined its favorite stocks to play the trend. These are some of the AI-focused names Raymond James recommends betting on: Perhaps unsuprisingly, Microsoft made the list. Raymond James also highlighted data infrastructure stocks powering AI platforms as another growth-driver for businesses such as Arista Networks . Other top AI picks from Raymond James include Salesforce , Alphabet and American Tower Corporation .

Persons: Raymond James ., commercializes, Frank Louthan, Raymond James, Wall, NVDA, Louthan, — CNBC's Michael Bloom Organizations: Microsoft, Nvidia, Arista Networks, Wall Street, Tower Corporation

☆ South Africa deputy president's police escorts face charges after being filmed attacking motorists
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Nimi Princewill | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The plainclothes officers then proceeded to kick and stomp on the two men. “One of the occupants in the SUV was pointing a firearm at the victims’ vehicle. The victims’ vehicle was subsequently boxed in by more SUVs and forced, in formation, to the left side of the N1 highway,” the statement said. “The occupants of the SUVs exited their vehicles surrounding the victims’ vehicle and attempted to smash the windscreen of the victims’ vehicle. Upon not being successful in that attempt, the assailants proceeded to smash the back window of the victims’ vehicle and assault the occupants of that vehicle,” it continued.

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☆ A former Florida GOP state lawmaker says many people in the state capital are 'terrified' of Ron DeSantis and his political enforcers: 'They just chop off heads and move on'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An ex-Florida lawmaker told WaPo that many in Tallahassee are "terrified" of DeSantis and his team. "There's no inner circle because they just chop off heads and move on," the former lawmaker said. This year, boosted by a GOP supermajority, DeSantis ramped up his conservative policymaking agenda. DeSantis has earned the endorsements of 100 of the 113 Republican state lawmakers in Florida, with 12 remaining neutral and only one backing former President Donald Trump. A former Republican state lawmaker told The Post that people are "terrified" of DeSantis and his political operation.

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☆ CEOs see ChatGPT as an 'Ozempic' miracle drug that can cut costs and boost efficiency. Right now, they're wrong.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Ozempic and ChatGPT have blown up in the year of the cure-all. As Justine Moore, investment partner at Silicon Valley VC firm a16z, tweeted this month: "By 2025, America is going to run on Ozempic and ChatGPT." CEOs running businesses that have nothing to do with AI are talking about ChatGPT during their quarterly earnings calls. But like Ozempic, AI comes with side effects. Samsung banned its employees from using generative AI tools after finding some of its engineers accidentally leaked internal source code by uploading it to ChatGPT in April.

☆ Why Warren Buffett Runs Berkshire Hathaway His Way - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Roger Lowenstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Not surprisingly, Mr. Buffett has become a target for progressive institutional investors. (A resolution calling for Mr. Buffett to step down as board chairman, though not as C.E.O., fared the worst.) CalPERS, which manages retirement funds in California, demands that Berkshire publish an annual “assessment” on how it manages climate risks. (This is a good place to note: I’m not only a Warren Buffett biographer, I’m also a long-term Berkshire stockholder.) Mr. Buffett was the son of a conservative Republican who served four terms in Congress.

☆ ChatGPT and generative AI could be stopped in their tracks by copyright law. Here's how it could play out.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( John Eden | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Copyright rules could derail the technology of generative AI, writes copyright law expert John Eden. Copyright holders do not understand how their protected works are used by generative AI platforms — so they assume the worst. In both of these cases, copyright law may not provide human creators with the protection they want or need. Still, fair learning alone probably won't resolve all conflicts between copyright holders and generative AI platforms. An expert on copyright law, John also advises clients on how to protect their copyrighted works in an ever-changing commercial ecosystem.

☆ Google Says Supreme Court Ruling Could Potentially Upend the Internet
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( John D. Mckinnon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Google says YouTube ‘abhors terrorism and over the years has taken increasingly effective actions to remove terrorist and other potentially harmful content.’WASHINGTON—A case before the Supreme Court challenging the liability shield protecting websites such as YouTube and Facebook could “upend the internet,” resulting in both widespread censorship and a proliferation of offensive content, Google said in a court filing Thursday. In a new brief filed with the high court, Google said that scaling back liability protections could lead internet giants to block more potentially offensive content—including controversial political speech—while also leading smaller websites to drop their filters to avoid liability that can arise from efforts to screen content.

☆ Google claims a Supreme Court defeat would transform the internet — for the worse
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —An unfavorable ruling against Google in a closely watched Supreme Court case this term about YouTube’s recommendation engine could have sweeping unintended consequences for much of the wider internet, the search giant argued in a legal filing Thursday. But a Supreme Court decision that says AI-based recommendations do not qualify for those protections could “threaten the internet’s core functions,” Google wrote in its brief. Driving the case are claims that Google violated a US antiterrorism law with its content algorithms by recommending pro-ISIS YouTube videos to users. The case, Gonzalez v. Google, is viewed as a bellwether for content moderation, and one of the first Supreme Court cases to consider Section 230 since its passage in 1996. Multiple Supreme Court justices have expressed interest in weighing in on the law, which has been broadly interpreted by the courts, defended by the tech industry, and sharply criticized by politicians in both parties.

According to Harvard, around 40% of U.S. colleges and universities consider race in some fashion in admissions. The Supreme Court has been upheld such policies, most recently in a 2016 ruling involving a white woman who sued after the University of Texas rejected her. Ruling in favor of the plaintiffs could require the court to overturn its 2016 ruling and earlier decisions. 'DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION'The lawsuits accused UNC of discriminating against white and Asian American applicants and Harvard of discriminating against Asian American applicants. Circuit Court of Appeals found that Harvard's use of race was "meaningful" and not "impermissibly extensive" because it prevented diversity from plummeting.

☆ A sentence that never ends: How probation kept a Pennsylvania man locked up through the pandemic — even after his release date
▼ + stars: | 2022-02-04 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +39 min

He was still a teenager when, a year after his school went under, he graduated to a new form of state supervision. Inmates walk the hallways during a media tour of the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 7, 2015. And such violations have bloated the probation system, with roughly 250,000 people now subject to restrictions on their freedom. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner listens during a press conference announcing Danielle Outlaw as the new Police Commissioner on December 30, 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania State Senator Katie Muth was elected in the 2018 "blue wave," defeating the incumbent Republican.

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