Leben (Life aka misc)

White-collar workers are facing their deepest hiring slump in a decade, with one in four U.S. job losses last year hitting professional workers, according to S&P Global. A 2024 Vanguard report shows hiring for employees earning over $96,000 has fallen to its lowest level since 2014. The downturn has been Read more…

Meta is involved in a class action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, a claim the company disputes. But the site adds that newly unsealed court documents reveal that Meta allegedly used a minimum of 81.7TB of illegally torrented data sourced from shadow libraries to train its AI models. Internal emails further Read more…

What if time is not as fixed as we thought? Imagine that instead of flowing in one direction — from past to future — time could flow forward or backward due to processes taking place at the quantum level. This is the thought-provoking discovery made by researchers at the University Read more…

The Cleveland Review of Books ponders a new 697-page hardcover collection of American poet/author Kevin Killian’s…. reviews from Amazon. (Over 2,000 of ’em — written over the course of 16 years.) In 2012, he wrote three substantial paragraphs about the culinary perfection that can be found in a German Potato Read more…