Sugoi & Yokunai

Why recruiters can’t find workers and new grads can’t find jobs (it’s not AI)

There will be shortages in the tens or even hundreds of thousands of nurses, physicians, teachers, engineers, pharmacists, mental health counselors, construction workers and airplane mechanics – jobs AI generally can’t do.

“All of these people who keep a society functioning are the very people we’re not going to have enough of,” said Ron Hetrick, Lightcast’s principal economist. 

“We have pumped so many young people into business and finance” when what’s really in demand are graduates in other fields, Hetrick said. “It’s like a factory producing these workers like widgets, even though society is saying, ‘We really don’t need them.’ And the factory just keeps pumping them out.”

And in China:
China’s graduate glut: millions enter a job market with little use for them

In a mouse model of colorectal cancer, a single intravenous dose of Ewingella americana completely eliminated tumors, producing a 100% complete response (CR) rate. According to the researchers, the treatment outperformed standard therapies used for comparison, including immune checkpoint inhibitors (anti-PD-L1 antibody) and the chemotherapy drug liposomal doxorubicin.

If students are skipping school, do you change the rules, so they aren’t required to attend? Oregon Department of Education officials submitted a proposal to the state Senate that recommended repealing compulsory attendance in a state with among the highest student absentee rates—nearly a third of students in 2024 missed 17 or more school days...

And the framing keeps softening. Back in February, Google executives were suggesting the new Siri would just run on Google's own servers during an Alphabet earnings call, calling Google Apple's "preferred cloud provider." By March, Apple was reportedly asking Google to set up servers meeting Apple's privacy bar, which read at the time like damage control. Now, in July, we get a popup that just tells you plainly: this goes to Google Cloud. That's honest. It's also the last stop on a walk-back that started with "your data stays on our silicon" and ended with "here's a consent screen for when it doesn't."

...the precedent is set: Apple devices now have a sanctioned pathway for routing Apple Intelligence requests to a third party's cloud, and a UI pattern for asking permission once and moving on.

Oregon’s semiconductor industry is in decline and is “at risk of becoming an insignificant stakeholder” globally, according to a new analysis commissioned by the state.

The report by Business Oregon, the state’s economic development agency, concludes the Silicon Forest faces “long-term stagnation” because it is too reliant on Intel, lacks homegrown talent and faces regulatory uncertainty, high costs and a diminished supply of industrial land.

By increasing extracellular serotonin, SSRIs disrupt energy homeostasis and often worsen symptoms during acute treatment. Our third claim is that symptom reduction is not achieved by the direct pharmacological properties of SSRIs, but by the brain's compensatory responses that attempt to restore energy homeostasis. These responses take several weeks to develop, which explains why SSRIs have a therapeutic delay.