Pride Month: Companies Launch Rainbow-themed Products And Donate To Lgbtq Nonprofits

With powerful waves on top of it, a hurricane’s storm surge can cause catastrophic damage. Of all the hazards that hurricanes bring, storm surge is the greatest threat to life and property along the coast. It can sweep homes off their foundations, flood riverside communities miles inland, and break up dunes and levees that normally protect coastal areas against storms.

By Sara Ruberg, The New York Times Company Stanford researchers gave a popular artificial intelligence chatbot a language test. They asked the bot in Vietnamese to write a traditional poem in the form known as “song thất lục bát” that follows a pattern of lines made up of seven, seven, six, then eight words.

Over the next two years, Vail Resorts plans to lay off 14% of its corporate workforce, under 1% of its operations workforce and outsource its internal business services and call centers as it consolidates and positions itself for more growth. The Broomfield-based company expects the moves to result in $100 million in annualized savings by the end of its 2026 fiscal year.

On YouTube, an ad for the car company Mazda appeared before a video that repeated the racist falsehood that Haitian migrants in Ohio were “eating ducks on the side of the road.” An ad for the software giant Adobe showed up alongside another video that claimed “people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country.” Even an ad for Vice President Kamala Harris was placed ahead of a video that spread the unsupported statement that migrants were “going to parks, grabbing ducks, cutting their heads off and eating them.” Many advertisers have tried for years to avoid sharing space with content about polarizing politics, hate speech or misinformation.

In the late 1780s, shortly after the Industrial Revolution had begun, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay wrote a series of 85 spirited essays, collectively known as the Federalist Papers. They argued for ratification of the Constitution and an American system of checks and balances to keep power-hungry “factions” in check. A new project, orchestrated by Stanford University and published this month, is inspired by the Federalist Papers and contends that today is a broadly similar historical moment of economic and political upheaval that calls for a rethinking of society’s institutional arrangements. In an introduction to its collection of 12 essays, called the Digitalist Papers, the editors overseeing the project, including Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, and Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state in the George W.

Balancing both office and remote work presents the most promising path forward. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon sparked debate on the future of work in his ountry this week when he ordered public service employees back to the office.