Goldman Sachs The Latest Firm To Ditch DEI Hiring Criteria

The 5 Places In America You Don't Want To Be When Society Collapses… Authored by Milan Adams via preppgroup.home.blog, There’s a strange kind of comfort people have when they think about disaster. Not the dramatic kind you see in movies, but something quieter, almost subconscious—the belief that if something really bad were to happen, there would still be time to react. Time to think. Time to leave. Time to make the right decisions. The problem is, history doesn’t really support that idea. When things begin to fail on a large scale, they don’t...

The Four Iran War End-Games Revisited, And The Peak Pressure Points Submitted By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities A Yogi Berra Kind of Weekend There is something special about “home openers.” The baseball season can drag on, but the home opener is such a great reminder that summer is on the way and that the possibility of winning it all remains in your reach. Maybe that is why I have Yogi Berra on my mind. Or maybe, and far more likely, it is because a lot of recent discussions seem to lend themselves...

No Real People Were Polled: AI Is Now Fabricating What "The Public Thinks" The other day Axios ran a piece that cited "findings" that a majority of people trusted their doctors and nurses. Turns out, those "findings" were completely fabricated by a company called Aaru - using AI (causing Axios to issue an editor's note and 'clarification')Aaru uses something they call "silicon sampling," where large language models (the AI) can emulate humans at a fraction of the cost and time required for traditional polling, the NY Times reports. Silicon sampling isn’t polling. It is the outright fabrication of public opinion by...