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As businesses adopt artificial intelligence,
fears of a wave of job displacement continue to grow.
A new nonprofit called RAISE US
aims to bring together states,
major businesses and AI firms
to prepare workers, companies and local economies for what’s to come.
It’s a bipartisan effort, co-founded by Republican Eric Holcomb and Democrat Gina Raimondo

Nonprofit aims to help displaced workers as businesses adopt artificial intelligence
As businesses adopt artificial intelligence, fears of a wave of job displacement continue to grow. A new nonprofit called RAISE US aims to bring together states, major businesses and AI firms to prepare workers, companies and local economies for what’s to come. It’s a bipartisan effort, co-founded by Republican Eric Holcomb and Democrat Gina Raimondo. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Raimondo.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, and others launch Raise Us, a new non-profit led by ex-Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to help US workers adapt to AI (Lydia DePillis/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/business/economy/ai-work-…

Big Companies Aim to Ease A.I. Transition for American Workers
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft have signed on to an effort led by Gina Raimondo, a former commerce secretary.

REPORT: Palm Beach County Was Threatened With Defunding Unless They Renamed Airport For Trump - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/05/report-palm-beach-county-was-threatened-with-defunding-unless-they-renamed-airport-for-trump/

RE: https://mas.to/@PRSXFENG/116471322577386670
Just a reminder that the people who make these apps have addresses.

Randomly reminded about how when i was little i decided that lemonade was *lemming*ade and was made from water, sugar, lemming juice, and a bit of chinchilla extract for flavoring

safe travels to sonny rollins from the williamsburg bridge (which really should be renamed after him). #nyc #jazz

I suppose I should remind you of this weather-appropriate song:
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=LJwR4iHxKV0

The 250th birthday of the United States is coming up and many of us are having a tough time feeling celebratory because
*waves hands around at everything*.
To mark the occasion in a decidedly non-jingoistic manner, historian Heather Cox Richardson is producing a series of one-minute videos,
each featuring one of “the many people, places, and events that have built our country
and remind us of the power of each person to make history

250 to 250
A series of one-minute stories of the many people, places, and events that have built our country and remind us of the power of each person to make history. ...

Three doctors gathered and told the couple that the longer Waldorf’s cervix remained open and her uterus exposed to bacteria,
the higher her risk of developing a life-threatening infection.
The standard of care, they explained, would be to quickly empty her womb. 
But they couldn’t do that, one doctor said apologetically, sighing deeply.
The baby still had a detectable heartbeat, and stopping it would run afoul of a state abortion ban that snapped into place after the…

She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.
Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.

In the narrow alleyways of the historic center, the stone walls were sweating under the day's 40°C heat.
There was no sign of human life on the main street.
Metal shutters were down and wooden window blinds remained closed.
About 20 kilometers from Perpignan,
Ille-sur-Têt, a large rural village in Pyrénées-Orientales,
resembled a ghost town on Monday, July 6.
That morning, the local prefect renewed his evacuation order for the town's 5,900 resi…

Pyrénées wildfires destroy everything in their path: 'I didn't think I'd make it out alive'
The residents of Ille-sur-Têt, a town that was evacuated, remain in shock as the Trévillach wildfire – the largest the region has seen in 50 years – was still not under control on Monday evening.