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Trying something newMy Ukrainian student's situation continues to be uncertain. She and her family are worried that their temporary protection status could disappear at any time. I asked her if Canada was an option and she said it wasn't because they had closed the program that was accepting Ukrainian refugees.
Saw this article today. I can see why Canada isn't an option:
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Recipes 2026I bought a bag of King Arthur Measure-for-Measure flour at Costco a while back. It's been languishing on our basement pantry shelf and I decided I needed to try it out. I had some ripe bananas, so I went for this recipe for gluten free whole grain banana muffins.
https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/gluten-free-whole-grain-banana-muffins-recipe
They are delicious! Can't tell them apart from their wheat flour cousins.
Just ignore the xantham and cellulose gum....
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IgniteTech CEO on AII didn't take it as a criticism.
I agree the headline is click bait-ish, but for me that's pretty much a given these days and I just plow through and read the article to get the real meaning and to see if there is anything of (factual) value.
I've given up the fight for well-written journalism.
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IgniteTech CEO on AII didn't find it misleading. He did fire 80 percent of his staff - that's the headline. In the body of the article they say that he replaced those folks, and then added some.
I could see if you thought the article was about one of those companies who fired people and replaced them with AI, that it could be confusing.
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Fed Chair Powellâs statementWhite House says Trump did not instruct DoJ to investigate Powell
Speaking to reporters outside the White House today, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the Donald Trump did not instruct the justice department to investigate Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell.âThe president has every right to criticize the Fed chair. He has a first amendment right, just like all of you do,â Leavitt said. âAnd one thingâs for sure, the president has made it quite clear, Jerome Powell is bad at his job. As for whether or not Jerome Powell if a criminal, thatâs an answer for the Department of Justice.â
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A chance to make tech good again?Trump may be the beginning of the end for âenshittificationâ â this is our chance to make tech good again
The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives
Itâs been 25 years since I started working for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an American nonprofit dedicated to preserving and promoting human rights on the internet. Iâve found myself in dozens of countries working with activists, politicians and civil servants to untangle the complex technical questions raised by the internet, and every one of our discussions ended in the same place. âOK,â theyâd say, âyouâve definitely laid out the best way to regulate tech, but we canât do it.â
Why not? Because â inevitably â the US trade rep had beaten me to every one of those countries and made it eye-wateringly clear that if they regulated tech in a way that favoured their own people, industries and national interests, the US would bury them in tariffs.
But deterrents are a funny thing. If someone demands that you follow their orders or theyâll burn your house down, so you do, and they burn your house down anyway ⌠well, youâre a bit of a fool if you keep on doing what they tell you, arenât you?
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IgniteTech CEO on AIThis CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says heâd do it again
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-laid-off-nearly-80-185033733.html
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I bought myself a Christmas present@Steve-Miller said in I bought myself a Christmas present:
A box of Jiffy cornbread mix costs very little and is very easy to mix up. Turns out decent as well.
I second this recommendation!
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Fed Chair Powellâs statementThe Pauline conversions are taking way longer than I'd like, but I welcome these defectors with open arms. We need them.