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Can You Hide a Child’s Face From A.I.? - The New York Times

Parents have been stressing out for at least two decades about what to share about their children online. Powerful new technologies present a more urgent risk.

Kashmir Hill has covered privacy and technology for more than a decade, has written a book about facial recognition, and has young children whose online footprints she still struggles to protect.

There are two distinct factions of parents on TikTok: those who will crack eggs over their kids’ heads for likes and those who are trying desperately to make sure the internet doesn’t know who their children are.

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How To Achieve ‘Lean,’ Not ‘Mean,’ When Cutting Your Company’s Costs - Forbes

Uncertainty about the economy doesn't do companies any favors. When business and consumer spending slows, leaders face tough decisions about which expenses to cut. And workers worry about whether those cuts will send them to the unemployment line. It's not an unfounded fear, as 2023's layoff announcements from big-name companies keep coming.

During this year's first quarter, 136,000 employees got their pink slips. While tech giants have been in the news with headcount reductions, large banks, auto manufacturers and retail pharmacy chains are also letting people go. It's decisions like these that make employees question whether leaders are on their side.

When times are tough, it's convenient to slash the payroll. However, there's more to running a lean operation than reducing staff down to a skeleton crew. With any cost-saving measures, you want to be attentive to your employees' needs and enable your company's long-term strategies. Here are some ways to achieve both.

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The labor shortage is here for one reason—and it’s quiet quitting - Fortune

One question has hovered over the post-pandemic economy for the better part of three years: Where are all the workers? Businesses’ difficulty hiring has been blamed on a gamut of ills: Too-generous unemployment benefits; too many stimulus checks; not enough immigration; too many workers with long COVID, and, finally, simple laziness.

Now, a recent study suggests a different answer: Workers are still there—they’re just not working as hard.

Three researchers at Washington University in St. Louis crunched federal data from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey and found that most of the drop in hours worked came from people who stayed employed, but worked fewer hours. Their results were published recently in a working paper by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

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Israel Must Not React Stupidly - The Atlantic

If 10/7 was Israel’s 9/11, as many of the country’s leaders have said, the meaning of the comparison is not self-evident. Its implications still have to be worked out, and they might lead to unexpected places.

The horror is comparable, but the scale isn’t. The 1,000 or more civilians butchered on Saturday by Hamas are, relative to Israel’s population, many more than the 3,000 killed in the United States by al-Qaeda; a proportionate number of dead on 9/11 would have been close to 40,000. Al-Qaeda, a transnational group based in the deserts and mountains of Afghanistan, had the ability and will to strike terror anywhere in the world, but it could not destroy the United States. Hamas threatens Israel’s very existence—both in principle, according to the genocidal goals set out in its founding manifesto and subsequent statements, and also in practice, as an arm or ally of the more powerful entities in the region that share its aims, Hezbollah, Syria, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Facts like these suggest that the analogy has no more value than most historical comparisons.

And yet something makes Israelis reach back to September 11, 2001. The facts are different, but the feelings are the same: profound shock, unbearable grief, humiliation, rage, and solidarity. Shock because nothing this terrible had ever happened before, even to Israel. The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, like the George W. Bush administration, seemed to discount evidence of a coming attack—a failure of intelligence and preparedness that was, perhaps, at bottom a failure of imagination. Solidarity demonstrated in the spontaneous effort of ordinary Israelis, without waiting for official directives, regardless of ideological differences, to save and comfort one another. Ours didn’t last long; neither will theirs. May the memory endure as a reproach to the stupidity and tribalism that plague Israeli politics and ours.

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