Take nurses: increasingly, American hospitals are firing their waged nurses and replacing them with gig nurses who are booked in via an app. There’s plenty of ways that these apps abuse nurses, but the most ghastly is in how they price nurses’ wages. These apps buy nurses’ financial data from data-brokers so they can offer lower wages to nurses with lots of credit card debt, on the grounds that crushing debt makes nurses desperate enough to accept a lower wage:
Pluralistic: Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app (17 Dec 2024)
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First Taxi Drivers, Now Nurses. Teachers next?
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So many AI tools
Subscribing to a newsletter by There Is an AI For That has opened my eyes to how many new AI tools are out there. Setting up a digest makes it all the more valuable because I only get tools I am interested in. Today, for example, I see tools for both reading and writing (not shown: speaking or listening). Highly recommended. It may seem like a firehose at first, but you can filter it.
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New AI is here
And OpenAI says it is significantly better. Does it really reason? Claims aside, we need to look at this development closely. Read more about it at the Atlantic. The GPT Era is Already Ending (gift).
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USA States requiring 3-day hotel quarantine in Japan
List of states in USA that require a 3-day stay in a hotel (Japan pays) upon arrival. Note that there are restrictions for other countries mixed in here, and yet other countries have restrictions for 6 days and 10 days, and still others are banned completely. Ministry of Foreign Affairs source. Blacklisted states are in yellow. Delisted states in green. Note: Kanas was delisted, then listed again later.
Some odd things about this list. Once the state is on it, it is hard to get off. But no sign of states like Florida, Georgia, or Alabama. This has me curious as to how this list is compiled. If anybody know, please share it.
