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Killing Non-Compete Clauses Is All About Freedom

The New Republic 

On Tuesday, Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas struck down a Federal Trade Commission regulation barring non-compete clauses from employment contracts. Businesses routinely impose non-compete clauses on their workers in what amounts to a latter-day version of indentured servitude. Granted, employees subjected to non-compete clauses—about 18 percent of the United States workforce—differ from the indentured servants that colonial settlers brought to the New World in that they’re free to quit their jobs. Читать дальше...

A.I. Is Making a Record-Hot Summer Even Grimmer

The New Republic 

Beneath the deluge of election news, two remarkable statistics made smaller headlines this past week. First, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed that last month was the hottest July on record, following the hottest June on record, in what is so far the hottest year on record. Second, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that, in the first half of 2024, the U.S. added more electrical generation capacity than they have in two decades: 20.2 gigawatts, with... Читать дальше...

Bros Beware: Trump Has a Plan to Shrink Your Testicles

The New Republic 

This month, the U.S. Air Force made a surprise announcement that it is refusing to comply with an order to clean up drinking water that it contaminated with PFAS “forever chemicals”—substances that have been linked to hormone disruption, liver damage, and a range of other health problems. The rationale for halting the cleanup was this year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the “Chevron doctrine,” in which courts typically deferred to the Environmental Protection Agency’s and other federal... Читать дальше...

Black Myth: Wukong needs an Assassin's Creed-style discovery mode

Rock Paper Shotgun 

Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, Odyssey, and Origins all have one thing in common: they've got a Discovery mode, which replaces murdering with learning. You can, quite literally, go on tours curated by historians around each of the game's respective maps. Instead of diving off a Sphinx and plunging your hidden blade into someone's spinal column, you can look up at the Sphinx and read a paragraph on its significance. Maybe view an actual, real life bit of ancient Egypt from an actual real life museum collection in-game. Читать дальше...

Was Linguistic A.I. Created by Accident?

The New Yorker 

Seven years after inventing the transformer—the “T” in ChatGPT—the researchers behind it are still grappling with its surprising power.