AT&T launches $3/day “Unlimited Day Pass” plan for iPad cellular users

This could definitely come in handy for the road warriors out there. AT&T on Wednesday launched a new cellular option entitled “Unlimited Day Pass” for iPad users. The plan, which is geared towards users who have more sporadic needs than might be justified by a full monthly subscription plan, retails for $3 for unlimited wireless […]

Junho Violeta: PC-AM reforça combate à violência contra pessoas idosas e incentiva denúncias

A campanha Junho Violeta reforça, ao longo deste mês, a importância da prevenção e do enfrentamento à violência contra a pessoa idosa. Por meio da Delegacia Especializada em Crimes Contra a Pessoa Idosa (DECCI), a Polícia Civil do Amazonas (PC-AM) intensifica as ações de conscientização, orienta a população sobre os canais de denúncia e destaca a importância da participação da sociedade na…

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The States That Drink the Most Liquor in America (2025) [MAP]

Residents of the United States drank 7.8 billion gallons of booze in 2023, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). That same year — the latest of NIAAA’s available data — considerable slides in wine and beer consumption predicated a nearly 15 million-gallon dip in total alcohol consumption in the United States. Spirits was the only category to record growth,…

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Quando são os jogos dos clubes brasileiros na Libertadores?

A Conmebol divulgou a tabela detalhada das oitavas de final da Copa Libertadores. A fase decisiva da competição terá a presença de sete clubes brasileiros e será aberta pelo Fluminense, que será o primeiro representante do país a entrar em campo no mata-mata. O Tricolor carioca enfrenta o Independiente Rivadavia, da Argentina, no dia 11 […]

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_Claims and planned layoffs

Labor costs and productivity

The state of the economy is ………_So, he have a spike in initial unemployment claims, though continuing claims, which are actually from a week earlier, fell.

Planned layoffs remain low, though they are up a bit, and productivity rose slightly, but wages did not keep up with inflation.

Meanwhile, I get serious 2008 vibes from the fall in…

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Open Source and AI

More and more frequently, I get asked about my stance on AI in the context of programming. This is my attempt to summarize my stance for those who wonder.

This is a blog post that I don’t want to write, but some recent developments have more or less forced my hand here. I would have preferred to keep pretending that I’m neutral in the issue, and just hoping that the problem goes away. But that…

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AI in the Philosophy Job Market (guest post)

A few weeks ago, I was contacted by a reporter working on a story about the extent to which AI, as a topic of research and an area of specialization demanded by employers, was becoming dominant in philosophy. Here’s one thing I said to her: People should be cautious when inferring how much philosophy of AI work is actually happening from how much philosophy of AI work they’re hearing about. AI is…

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Analyst: Call of Duty's withdrawal from last-gen consoles means it's selling into the smallest install base since 2017

Activision's decision to drop support for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has reduced its potential marked by 4.3%, according to a new report from analysts S&P, which says that the corresponding launch on Switch 2 – the first time the franchise has been available on a Nintendo console since 2013 – will not make up for the loss of users on legacy consoles.

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