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Launch of Missouri sports betting delayed until fall after emergency rules were rejected

1 year 1 month ago
A dispute over whether the Missouri Gaming Commission can issue emergency rules to implement sports wagering will delay the licensing of casinos and online operators until fall, the executive director of the Missouri Gaming Commission said Monday. Last week, Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected the gaming commission emergency rules intended to allow it to accept license applications. The notice to the gaming commission did not specify why the rule was rejected. “The only answer…
Rudi Keller

Buzzfeed CEO Aims To Solve AI Slop Problem With More AI Slop

1 year 1 month ago
You might recall Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti as the guy who gutted Buzzfeed’s talented news division and fired oodles of human beings back in 2023. As part of that transition, Peretti heavily embraced half cooked ‘AI’ technology in the form of generative and interactive AI chatbots he insisted would dramatically boost the site’s traffic and […]
Karl Bode

Diversity in the air: Don’t worry, everything is fine

1 year 1 month ago
Here's a chart showing airline fatalities over the past century. In 1980, at about the same time that commercial airlines began hiring Black and women pilots, fatalities began a 30-year decline to zero: This is not a smoking gun. Fatalities likely went down for reasons of their own that were unrelated to civil-rights era hiring ...continue reading "Diversity in the air: Don’t worry, everything is fine"
Kevin Drum

What to know about the Feb. 28 Economic Blackout

1 year 1 month ago
Customers across the United States are looking to send a message Friday to companies that have rolled back their DEI initiatives in the form of a 24-hour consumer boycott, also known as the “Feb. 28 Economic Blackout.” 
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