On Saturday evening at Monza, McLaren Team Principal Andrea Stella was adamant that poor execution was the root cause of a disappointing Q3 outcome that saw Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris start in P6 and P8.
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Lewis Hamilton has called on Ferrari "to change things" in how it manages the intra-team battle between the seven-time World Champion and team mate Charles Leclerc following last weekend's Italian Grand Prix.
A new article about AI in The Economist argues that "Initial effects of the technology on employment look positive."
Perhaps AI will eventually make many humans unemployable — but there is no sign of it yet. On September 4th the Bureau of Labour Statistics reported that the American economy added 162,000 jobs in August, far above expectations. The unemployment rate is just 4.1%, lower than in almost 90% of months over the past half-century. Young workers, often cast as AI's first victims, are holding up remarkably well: the gap between unemployment among 20-24-year-olds and the overall rate is close to a multi-decade low.
Some companies and workers are being severely disrupted by AI. Hiring in professional and business services is running about 10% below the average in 2015-19. Tech giants like Microsoft and Meta are trimming headcounts as they reorganise their businesses around the technology. Smaller firms such as Block, the owner of Square and Cash App, and Intuit, the maker of TurboTax and QuickBooks, are replacing people with bots. American companies have announced some 16,000 AI-related job cuts a month on average so far this year, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an employment consultancy.
But AI-related lay-offs gets lost in the churning jobs market where employers shed roughly 1.7m workers in a typical month. And the evidence so far is that AI is already creating a lot of jobs to replace those it has destroyed. The vast sums pouring into data centres and power generation have set off a race for construction and infrastructure workers. AI startups are hiring like there is no tomorrow. Incumbents racing to keep up are creating new AI roles. And by making some workers more productive, AI may be increasing demand for their services.
Add it all up, and The Economist estimates that AI has so far created around 1m new jobs in America. That easily exceeds the roughly 200,000 lay-offs attributed to AI since mid-2023, and appears more than enough to offset weaker hiring in many back-office roles.
Their article acknowledges that since January 2023 employment has fallen roughly 10% for customer-service workers and 15% for administrative assistants. But when The Economist looked at professions "closest to the AI boom" — engineers, software developers, mathematicians and data scientists — they found that since 2022 they've added roughly 730,000 jobs above trend. They see AI as creating new white-collar jobs for everyone from model and deployment engineers to new data annotators.
The chief economist at the Burning Glass Institute agrees, estimating that roughly 1% of professional jobs are now "AI jobs" — about 1 million positions in the U.S. — while in computer occupations and life sciences it's between 4% and 5%. (Data-center construction spending also increased 60% in one year, according to Census Bureau data, creating jobs for electricians, HVAC specialists, grid engineers, and machine technicians.) And "Indeed finds that installation and maintenance jobs at data centres advertise wages about 40% higher than comparable work elsewhere."
Perhaps AI will eventually make many humans unemployable — but there is no sign of it yet. On September 4th the Bureau of Labour Statistics reported that the American economy added 162,000 jobs in August, far above expectations. The unemployment rate is just 4.1%, lower than in almost 90% of months over the past half-century. Young workers, often cast as AI's first victims, are holding up remarkably well: the gap between unemployment among 20-24-year-olds and the overall rate is close to a multi-decade low.
Some companies and workers are being severely disrupted by AI. Hiring in professional and business services is running about 10% below the average in 2015-19. Tech giants like Microsoft and Meta are trimming headcounts as they reorganise their businesses around the technology. Smaller firms such as Block, the owner of Square and Cash App, and Intuit, the maker of TurboTax and QuickBooks, are replacing people with bots. American companies have announced some 16,000 AI-related job cuts a month on average so far this year, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an employment consultancy.
But AI-related lay-offs gets lost in the churning jobs market where employers shed roughly 1.7m workers in a typical month. And the evidence so far is that AI is already creating a lot of jobs to replace those it has destroyed. The vast sums pouring into data centres and power generation have set off a race for construction and infrastructure workers. AI startups are hiring like there is no tomorrow. Incumbents racing to keep up are creating new AI roles. And by making some workers more productive, AI may be increasing demand for their services.
Add it all up, and The Economist estimates that AI has so far created around 1m new jobs in America. That easily exceeds the roughly 200,000 lay-offs attributed to AI since mid-2023, and appears more than enough to offset weaker hiring in many back-office roles.
Their article acknowledges that since January 2023 employment has fallen roughly 10% for customer-service workers and 15% for administrative assistants. But when The Economist looked at professions "closest to the AI boom" — engineers, software developers, mathematicians and data scientists — they found that since 2022 they've added roughly 730,000 jobs above trend. They see AI as creating new white-collar jobs for everyone from model and deployment engineers to new data annotators.
The chief economist at the Burning Glass Institute agrees, estimating that roughly 1% of professional jobs are now "AI jobs" — about 1 million positions in the U.S. — while in computer occupations and life sciences it's between 4% and 5%. (Data-center construction spending also increased 60% in one year, according to Census Bureau data, creating jobs for electricians, HVAC specialists, grid engineers, and machine technicians.) And "Indeed finds that installation and maintenance jobs at data centres advertise wages about 40% higher than comparable work elsewhere."
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A lot of it comes from a personal vendetta against what feels hypocritical in our culture—especially around women in occupations that we collectively have a propensity to label as silly or stupid, as though we don't need to think critically about them even though we all consume them, specifically visually, all the time. Why can't we take this seriously? What is it about porn that is so dangerous?
An interview with Allie Rowbottom, author of the novel Lovers XXX
An interview with Allie Rowbottom, author of the novel Lovers XXX
Een Maltese krant publiceerde een video van het verhoor van Yorgen Fenech waarin hij erkent geld te hebben betaald voor het uitvoeren van de moord op onderzoeksjournalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017.
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Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:
What remains of the old Granite Island Causeway, Victor Harbor, South Australia.
The Causeway connects the South Australian City of Victor Harbor with Granite Island, a Conservation Park with free entry.
The Causeway is known for its historical connections to whaling when Victor Harbor was a Port, the means of transporting goods to and from sailing ships berthed at the Screwpile Jetty built in 1878, the Horse-drawn Tram that commenced in 1894 and takes passengers on a return trip daily, the Little Penguin colony and the Island's scenic beauty.
Construction began as a jetty for shipping in 1862 and reached 640 feet (metres). It was extended to the island in 1875 with a final length of 2,073 feet (632 metres). A horse tram to carry freight moving through the Port of Victor Harbor was in use by 1894.
By the end of the 20th century the timber Causeway was in a poor state of repair, and in February 2021 construction of a new concrete and steel causeway was begun adjacent to the original. The project was completed on time and on budget and the new Causeway opened on 22 December 2021.
As you cross the new Causeway, you see etched into the deck a series of indigenous artwork pieces, linked to represent the connection between Dreaming stories and all of their characters in nature. The Ngarrindjeri-Ramindjeri etchings invite a spiritual journey walking on country across the Causeway.
Source: southaustralia.com/products/fleurieu-peninsula/attraction...
Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:
What remains of the old Granite Island Causeway, Victor Harbor, South Australia.
The Causeway connects the South Australian City of Victor Harbor with Granite Island, a Conservation Park with free entry.
The Causeway is known for its historical connections to whaling when Victor Harbor was a Port, the means of transporting goods to and from sailing ships berthed at the Screwpile Jetty built in 1878, the Horse-drawn Tram that commenced in 1894 and takes passengers on a return trip daily, the Little Penguin colony and the Island's scenic beauty.
Construction began as a jetty for shipping in 1862 and reached 640 feet (metres). It was extended to the island in 1875 with a final length of 2,073 feet (632 metres). A horse tram to carry freight moving through the Port of Victor Harbor was in use by 1894.
By the end of the 20th century the timber Causeway was in a poor state of repair, and in February 2021 construction of a new concrete and steel causeway was begun adjacent to the original. The project was completed on time and on budget and the new Causeway opened on 22 December 2021.
As you cross the new Causeway, you see etched into the deck a series of indigenous artwork pieces, linked to represent the connection between Dreaming stories and all of their characters in nature. The Ngarrindjeri-Ramindjeri etchings invite a spiritual journey walking on country across the Causeway.
Source: southaustralia.com/products/fleurieu-peninsula/attraction...
wing of kaz has added a photo to the pool:
福岡県富津市、宮地嶽神社 / Miyajidake Shrine, Futtsu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Het is een mooi stel, die 34 35 van wie de groepsreis naar Overasselt eindigde in een verblijfje staatshotel.
"Een van de verdachten, een jonge Amsterdammer, was in juli 2024 betrokken bij een gewelddadige ontvoering van een bejaarde man in Amsterdam. De daders gijzelden de kwetsbare man, bedreigden hem met een vuurwapen en takelden hem daar zelfs mee toe om hem vervolgens van zijn bezittingen te beroven. Hij kreeg een gevangenisstraf van 15 maanden, waarvan zes voorwaardelijk, zo blijkt uit rechtbankstukken. Maar eenmaal buiten de gevangenis wordt hij snel voor vergelijkbare feiten opgepakt door de politie, zowel in februari 2025 als in maart 2025. De verdenking luidt opnieuw ‘wederrechtelijke vrijheidsberoving’ en oplichting. De verdachte zou in februari 2025 er met 15.000 Amerikaanse dollars vandoor zijn gegaan door zich voor te doen als iemand anders. Ook deze zaken vonden plaats in Amsterdam."
Altijd wee die Amsterdammers! Maar wacht even wacht even wacht even. 9 maanden cel, daarna meteen weer de fout in, daarna niks. Is het misschien een ideetje om dit soort lui wat langer vast te houden, zodat de rest van de samenleving er geen last meer van heeft? Of blijven we gewoon lekker aanlummelen alsof Nederland geen narcostaat is?
Chancellor ducks questions on whether he will have to raise taxes but says he will stick firmly to fiscal rules
John Healey has said boosting economic growth will be his defining mission as chancellor as he warned Labour had to “be honest” about the need to control public spending at next month’s budget.
In his first big speech since taking the job in July, Healey said the top priority for his 28 October budget would be to support stronger growth across the UK while sticking firmly to the government’s fiscal rules.
Continue reading...MAAGDENBURG (ANP/RTR/AFP) - Het mandaat om te regeren ligt nu bij Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), stelt CDU-deelstaatpremier Sven Schulze van Saksen-Anhalt: "Wij zijn de oppositie". Zijn christendemocraten eindigden bij de deelstaatverkiezingen op de tweede plek, ruim achter de radicaalrechtse AfD.
Schulze deed zijn uitspraken tijdens een persconferentie met bondskanselier Friedrich Merz. De twee CDU'ers erkenden het verlies van hun partij. Die kreeg zondag 17,2 procent van de stemmen; in 2021 was dat nog 37,1 procent. Schulze zei "passende consequenties" te zullen trekken.
De CDU is een van de vele politieke partijen die samenwerking met radicaalrechts weigert. Dit cordon sanitaire, ook wel de Brandmauer genoemd, staat onder druk door de grote overwinning van de AfD. Die partij behaalde bijna 44 procent van de stemmen, net niet genoeg voor een absolute meerderheid in het parlement. Een AfD-regering is nog niet uitgesloten, omdat de linkse BSW samenwerking met de partij niet afwijst.
