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Beyond heartbreaking 😔
Even 25 years later, hearing these phone calls is just utterly heartbreaking.
Hearing that voicemail is just so crushing to listen to even now.
Brooke was 23. Cantor Fitzgerald, 104th floor of the North Tower. She’d spoken to her mum the night before… then she called home again that morning and nobody was there. So this is what got left on the answering machine.
You can literally hear the pain and anguish in her voice. Crying. Coughing. Trying to stay calm enough to tell them where they were northwest corner, windows smashed so they could breathe, 30 or 40 people huddled in a corner.
It’s even still hard to listen to now. Just heartbreaking. You can feel her sadness. And I think you get the feeling that they knew they were facing imminent death.
She knew. You can hear it in her voice, I can’t imagine how scared she and her colleagues must of been.
A daughter trying to reach her parents one last time.
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Congrats to Joe 😊
FIRST LEGITIMATE BROADCAST…
I had the pleasure of being given the opportunity to be the lead forecaster for @PSUWeather’s Front & Centre this week, which will air on CNET (the cable system focusing on Centre County and the surrounding areas) Thursday night through Saturday. The show talks about all things weather and includes a forecasted outlook for this weekend.
You can find the link for the full show here posted to YouTube: youtu.be/WQuA53clE8s?si=VG2H…
Always room for improvement, but I’m grateful for the opportunity. #pawx #studentmeteorologist #broadcast
Has been my worry all along @BrianRoemmele
Going to be a very bumpy road ahead unless there’s a concrete plan going forward and given governments move like molasses I don’t see one 😕
Two economists mathematically proved that AI will destroy the economy.
Researchers from Wharton and Boston University published a terryfiying paper called "The AI Layoff Trap."
They mapped out the economic end-game of the AI transition, and it exposes a fatal flaw in competitive capitalism.
When a company replaces a worker with AI, it captures 100% of the wage savings.
But that displaced worker is also a consumer. When they lose their job, they stop buying things.
The company gets all the savings, but the loss of consumer demand is spread across the entire economy.
If there are 20 competitors in a market, a CEO only absorbs 1/20th of the economic damage their layoffs just created.
So every single rational CEO has a mathematical incentive to automate as fast as possible.
They can literally see the cliff approaching, and they still step on the gas.
It triggers an unavoidable Prisoner’s Dilemma. If you don't automate, your competitors will, and they will crush you on price.
It doesn't just hurt workers. It destroys the businesses, too.
The economy gets trapped in an automation arms race. Companies fire their workforce to stay competitive, until the entire consumer base is completely hollowed out.
At the limit, the paper concludes: “Firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand.”
And the scariest part?
The researchers mathematically tested every popular fix.
Universal Basic Income? Fails. It raises the living standard but doesn't change the corporate incentive to cut jobs. Retraining? Fails. Worker equity? Fails.
The paper proves that more competition actually makes the collapse happen faster. And "better" AI makes the damage worse.
The only thing that mathematically stops the collapse is a targeted automation tax, forcing companies to pay for the purchasing power they destroy before they automate the job.
Worse than the opioid epidemic, this is and will ruin millions of lives including their families.
Gambling addiction is just as bad if not worse than substance addiction, and having your smartphone serve as a constant reminder is not only like having a dealer in your back pocket, but one that’s constantly begging you for your next hit.
Perhaps Harper should stick to baseball itself, and leave the smaller side gigs alone. Short of asking for a new contract halfway through his current one of course. 😏
Terry Thompson lost $1.5 million on bets he placed with FanDuel.
The company gave him VIP treatment — including a personalized video message from the Phillies' Bryce Harper.
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