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☆ Five Years After Virginia Beach Shooting, ‘No One Is Getting Better’
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Campbell Robertson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At the end of the event, the site of a future memorial will be dedicated, where, eventually, the 12 names will be etched into the landscape of Virginia Beach. The children of Mary Louise Gayle, whose name will be among them, have no plans to be at the ceremony. Matthew Gayle, her son, is resuming a sailing trip he cut short exactly five years earlier when he learned of a shooting at his mother’s workplace. They could not bring themselves to join hands with a city that they, and members of some of other victims’ families, say let them down. What troubled her so much was that her mother, along with nearly all the other victims, had spent most of her career with the city.

Persons: Mary Louise Gayle, Sarah Leonard, Matthew Gayle, ” Ms, Leonard Locations: Virginia Beach

☆ The women in my family are all connected by names. We have middles names from previous generations.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Anne Roderique-Jones | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I am Anne Marie and she is Alice Marie, named after one of her mother's eight sisters, Anna Marie. The women in my family have been named after prior generationsThis long line of sisters kicked off what would be names linking generations of women in my family. The oldest daughter of Alice and Jack was named Anne Marie after the two beloved sisters, Phyllis Anne and Alice Marie. Mary Lou had a daughter named Shawn Marie, who would become my mother's cousin and best friend–and like a second mother to me. Her hair, a natural auburn not unlike her sister's, has always been dyed blonde, not unlike Aunt Mary Lou.

Persons: Anne Marie, Alice Marie, Anna Marie, Olga Margret, Elsie Meta, Wanda May, Irene Lucille, Jean Clyde, Helen Dawn, Shirley Jean, Phyllis Anne, Phyllis, Jack, I'd, she'd, Alice, Sally Lou —, Sally Lou's, Mary Louise, Mary Louise our Grandma Louise, Grandma Louise, —, Mary Lou, Shawn Marie, –, Sally Lou, Anne Marie . Standing, She's, Roderique, John James Roderique, James Otis Roderique, James Hamlin Roderique, selflessly Organizations: Service Locations: auburn

While a number of AI systems have been found to discriminate, tipping the scales in favor of certain races, genders or incomes, there’s scant government oversight. Those bills, along with the over 400 AI-related bills being debated this year, were largely aimed at regulating smaller slices of AI. The use of AI to make consequential decisions — what the bills call “automated decision tools” — is pervasive but largely hidden. The AI was trained to assess new resumes by learning from past resumes — largely male applicants. Requirements to routinely test an AI system aren’t in most of the legislative proposals, nearly all of which still have a long road ahead.

Persons: ChatGPT, ”, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Taylor Swift, —, Christine Webber, Mary Louis, Louis, California’s, Craig Albright, ” Albright, it’s, Rebecca Bauer, Kahan, what’s, Trân Organizations: DENVER, Congress, Brown University, The Software Alliance, Fortune, Commission, Pew Research, Amazon, BSA, Microsoft, Associated Press Locations: statehouses, chatbots, California, Connecticut, guardrails, Massachusetts, Washington, Colorado, Rhode Island , Illinois , Connecticut, Virginia, Vermont, That’s, Sacramento , California

☆ ‘Girl math’ was a fun social media joke. Then ‘boy math’ came along
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“You call it Girl Math, we call it the Labor Day sale,” a recent promotion from clothing brand Lane Bryant read. From this tangle of overly serious criticism and brand interference, the idea of “girl math” stretched far past its original intent. After all, if “girl math” exists, what is “boy math”? “I think the great equivalent to girl math for boy math is the fact that all of us dudes think we could land a plane,” a man in one popular TikTok posited. Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York is one of the big names to wade into the "girl math" trend.

Persons: influencer Imani Barbarin, It’s, it’s, “, commenter, ”, Lane Bryant, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, Kevin Lamarque, Dane Cook, Kelsi Taylor, Kevin McCarthy, y’all, Mary Louise Adams, gamely, ” Adams, can’t Organizations: CNN, Labor, Democratic, New York Democratic Rep, Republican, Queens University Locations: Alexandria, Cortez of New York, Kingston , Ontario

☆ Putin is trying to buy time with Prigozhin but will get revenge since he is the 'ultimate apostle of payback,' CIA director William Burns says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The director of the CIA believes that Putin has yet to play all of his cards against Yevgeny Prigozhin. Right now, Putin is buying time and seeing how he can still benefit from Prigozhin and Wagner Group. But Putin is the 'ultimate apostle of payback' CIA director William Burns said at the Aspen Security Forum. CIA Director William Burns, speaking at the Aspen Security Forum 2023 on Thursday, discussed Prigozhin's failed mutiny and the potential blowback to come. For now, Burns said, Putin is buying time, but when the time is right, Prigozhin may have a target on his back.

Persons: Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, William Burns, Wagner, Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden, Prigozhin's, Burns, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, Prigozhin, Russia's, Alexander Lukashenko, Kelly Organizations: CIA, Wagner, Aspen Security, Service, Wagner Group, Belarusian Locations: Wall, Silicon, Ukraine, Russian, Rostov, Moscow, Belarus, Ukrainian, Bakhmut, Syria, Africa

☆ Sen. Sherrod Brown received an extra property tax credit and racked up penalties for late payments
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Henry J. Gomez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, for years claimed an owner-occupancy tax credit at two properties, public records show — a potential violation of the state's rules governing such incentives. Responding to questions from NBC News, Brown and Schultz this week paid a $390 penalty stemming from their most recent late payment. Brown will no longer accept the owner-occupancy credit on the Columbus property, according to his campaign. Franklin County tax records available online show no late payments or penalties for Brown's Columbus condo — purchased in 2014 — over the last four years. Ohio schools are heavily reliant on property tax revenue, and late payments affect their accounting.

☆ Ex-Member of Menudo Says He Was Raped by Father of the Menendez Brothers
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Matt Stevens | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It was a gripping case that was one of the first to draw a daily national audience to a televised criminal trial. Lyle and Erik Menendez were convicted in 1996 of murdering their mother, Mary Louise, a former beauty queen who went by Kitty, and their father, Jose, a music executive, despite defense arguments that the brothers had been sexually molested for years by their father, and had killed out of fear. Now, Roy Rosselló, a former member of Menudo, the boy band of the 1980s that became a global sensation, is coming forward with an allegation that he was sexually assaulted as a teenager by Jose Menendez. The series, “Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed,” based on reporting by the journalists Robert Rand and Nery Ynclan, is largely focused on Mr. Rosselló. He describes an encounter with Mr. Menendez but also recounts separate incidents of sexual abuse that he says were inflicted on him by one of Menudo’s former managers when he sang as part of the group.

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