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The alluring fantasy of a quick win in Iran - The Economist (No paywall)
 AFTER THE elation, the doubt. President Donald Trump said that “Operation Midnight Hammer”, had “totally obliterated” Iran’s uranium-enrichment facilities. But now an early intelligence assessment leaked on June 24th suggests the nuclear programme has only been set back by months and that some enriched uranium may have been spirited away. The report is an early “low-confidence” assessment that both the Trump administration and Israeli sources eschew. But it illuminates a bigger problem. Mr Trump wants a quick-fix to the Iran nightmare with a single, clarifying mega-strike, a ceasefire and then prosperity. Instead America faces years of uncertainty over Iran’s capabilities and intentions. As a result Mr Trump’s assumption—that he can have a one-day Middle East military triumph and then quickly secure a lasting deal—may be badly misplaced.
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WorkWorkA.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts - The New Yorker (No paywall) In an experiment last year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, more than fifty students from universities around Boston were split into three groups and asked to write SAT-style essays in response to broad prompts such as Must our achievements benefit others in order to make us truly happy? One group was asked to rely on only their own brains to write the essays. A second was given access to Google Search to look up relevant information. The third was allowed to use ChatGPT, the artificial-intelligence large language model (L.L.M.) that can generate full passages or essays in response to user queries. As students from all three groups completed the tasks, they wore a headset embedded with electrodes in order to measure their brain activity. According to Nataliya Kosmyna, a research scientist at M.I.T. Media Lab and one of the co-authors of a new working paper documenting the experiment, the results from the analysis showed a dramatic discrepancy: subjects who used ChatGPT demonstrated less brain activity than either of the other groups. The analysis of the L.L.M. users showed fewer widespread connections between different parts of their brains; less alpha connectivity, which is associated with creativity; and less theta connectivity, which is associated with working memory. Some of the L.L.M. users felt no ownership whatsoever over the essays they'd produced, and during one round of testing eighty per cent could not quote from what they'd putatively written. The M.I.T. study is among the first to scientifically measure what Kosmyna called the cognitive cost of relying on A.I. to perform tasks that humans previously accomplished more manually. WorkWork
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WorkWorkWorkWork WorkWorkWorkConservatives Are Crashing Out Over Zohran - The Cut (No paywall) For many New York voters, Zohran Mamdani's win in last night's Democratic mayoral primary is the best news they've gotten all year. Thanks to an army of committed volunteers, a boots-on-the-ground approach to campaigning, and the power of ranked-choice voting, New York Democrats opted to elect a 33-year-old Democratic Socialist to be their nominee for mayor. This is a devastating blow to Establishment Dems, who really wanted to believe that the city would prefer a corrupt sexual harasser over someone promising to make the buses free. It is an even more devastating blow to conservatives, who are losing their minds over Mamdani's big upset. Work 
WorkWorkWorkDid a Tourist Get Blocked From the U.S. Over a Meme? Mads Mikkelsen - not the Danish actor but a 21-year-old tourist from Norway - told his hometown outlet that he was denied entry to the U.S. at Newark Liberty International Airport on June 11 after handing over his phone to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials who came across a meme of U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance. Work 
WorkWorkWorkThe meaning of Zohran Mamdani's win in New York - The Economist (No paywall) LOOKING a bit shell-shocked, Andrew Cuomo, New York’s former governor, conceded to Zohran Mamdani in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary on June 24th. Until recently, even the most enthusiastic Mamdani supporter could not have imagined that the 33-year-old Democratic Socialist, who until a few months ago was little known outside the neighbourhood in Queens that he represents as a legislator in Albany, would topple one of the biggest names in New York politics. Confirmation of the result will come once all ranked-choices votes have been counted, which will take until mid-July. The debate over what the result means, for the city and the Democratic Party, won’t wait. Work WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkHow To Care About Your Job When It Doesn't Care About You We all want to do awesome things and make an impact at work. However, what we call "work" is a relationship between employer and employee that's inherently and persistently designed to benefit the former over the latter. How do we meaningfully contribute, earn a living, and maybe even enjoy ourselves when the organization simply does not care about us? TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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