Hilary Escajeda

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Remember this when they tell you that arts degrees are worthless.

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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This is evil. There is nothing Christian about this.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

View this email in your browser. The Salt Lake Tribune Utah kids are at higher risk of intellectual disabilities when grandma lived near polluting businesses, new study finds As Utah families welcomed children in the 1970s and '8os, many were living just miles from smelters, refineries, mines and manufacturing plants - which were quietly releasing toxins into the air. Today, the grandchildren of those families are more likely to develop intellectual disabilities - a lingering impact of industrial pollution documented in a new University of Utah study.

Continue to be impressed by the work of @sltrib.com www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

Tina Peters is marking one year in prison by demanding that the DOJ follow President Trump's directive to free her.

"Get off your asses and get me out!" Peters wrote.

She's serving a nine year sentence for tampering with voting systems in search of election rigging. #copolitics

Research shows:
More H-1Bs → more patents
Fewer H-1Bs → more offshoring

Your choice, America.

Because he’s clearly and unapologetically presenting the teachings of the Catholic Church.

RTD’s plans to borrow $539 million for diesel buses, sidelining hopes for electric “If the agency is now saying we are not buying hybrids, that’s a big deal. It means we are moving backward.”

This is climate denial from RTD. Insanity

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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

24,576 pounds of cheddar cheese to Food Bank for the Heartland in Nebraska;

270,000 eggs to Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina;

4,640 pounds of chicken legs to Maui Food Bank in Hawaii

--> just some of the food aid canceled by Trump

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Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.

Pontifex maximus: "God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that he created for the benefit of all and for future generations, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters - what will be our answer, my dear friends?" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life' Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

FCC chairman leads “cruel” vote to take Wi-Fi access away from school kids FCC Republicans kill funding for Wi-Fi hotspot lending and Wi-Fi on school buses.

Here's some more about the Trump FCC's decision on Monday to kill two popular programs that helped bring free Wi-Fi to poor rural school kids (at no additional cost to taxpayers):

Trump cancels food research funding popular with Republicans Budget chief Russell Vought proposed cutting $72 million for universities after promising lawmakers the funding would remain untouched.

The White House is canceling food research funding popular with the GOP despite budget chief Russell Vought's promise to leave that money untouched.

Quick question: how many federal jobs will he eliminate *without* a shutdown?

“.. OpenAI spent more on marketing and equity options for its employees than it made in revenue in the first half of 2025. That single fact sums up where we are in the AI cycle more neatly than anything we could ever write, so we’ll just end there.”

@financialtimes.com
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I am worried that coal ash cleanup is so expensive and difficult. This is Boulder, with a research university & 4 national labs. Rural cooperatives have ash piles throughout sparsely populated areas of the US without thousands of scientists watching the cleanup.

Collusion doesn't just happen in smoke-filled rooms. It can be out in the open in earnings calls.

New research uses NLP on 300k+ transcripts to spot the language that firms use to coordinate publicly. Regulators can use this tool to detect anticompetitive behavior.
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Millions Could Lose Housing Aid Under Trump Plan Drafts of unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica detail plans that would open the door to full-time work requirements, two-year limits on living in federally supported housing and stripping aid from...

NEW: Some 4 million people in the U.S. could lose federal housing assistance under new plans from the Trump administration, say experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica.

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“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

So you are saying…

When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.

They tried this. It failed miserably. www.npr.org/sections/the...

Please share the author’s name and book title so I can add it to my reading list. Thank you!

US judge preliminarily approves $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement A federal judge in California on Thursday preliminarily approved a landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright class action brought by a group of authors against artificial intelligence company Anthropic, according to the authors' representatives.

📣We're delighted with the Court’s decision yesterday.
It's a win for authors and rightsholders, and a step in the right direction towards compensation for the unlawful use of copyright-protected works. Big Tech is not above the law and creators’ rights cannot be ignored. ✊
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China is turning up its nose at American soyabeans Midwestern farmers want their $12bn market back

In the corn belt of midwestern America, the soyabean harvest is under way. For the first time ever, there are no Chinese orders recorded at this late stage of the season

CPR’s tower on Sunlight Peak.

A reminder of autumn’s beauty… and the enormous cost of broadcasting in an altitudinous state!

Photo: Engineer Ron Zastrow

2 Professors Teach About AI Using Print Book Faculty members help students practice close reading and analysis with a physical book, building life skills and social connection.

“…this fall, Choi is encouraging students to close their laptops and spend time with Karen Hao’s book Empire of AI, about the evolution and tech behind AI.”

About Half of Adults with ACA Marketplace Coverage are Small Business Owners, Employees, or Self-Employed | KFF This analysis estimates that 48% of adults under age 65 with individual market coverage are either employed by a small business with fewer than 25 workers, self-employed entrepreneurs, or small…

Republicans in Congress are dealing big blows to small businesses right now. One looming one is the dramatic increase in health insurance costs for those who buy through the ACA marketplaces. Half— half! — of people under 65 using the marketplaces are small business owners and employees.

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.

Lmaooooooo