Archive for September 2025

Whether the AI hype deflates or investment keeps pouring in, capital is committed to forcing AI into the workplace, reshaping jobs and lowering labor standards…. the core questions for labor, mass politics, and consumers are: To what ends will AI be deployed, to whose benefit, and under whose control? As things stand, there are plenty of reasons to believe the answer to each question is oligarchs and oligopolists under, perhaps, some nominal control of a technocratic ruling class that will act as, at best, a regulatory rubber stamp — and institutional investor or underwriter. And with the state itself backing the broader AI rollout, that is, as they say, the ball game.

Dr. Ateev Mehrotra, a professor at Brown University’s school of public health, and co-author of a study on how popular artificial intelligence chatbots respond to questions about suicide

As a Family Destination Library, the Hardin branch aims to offer a variety of resources for parents, children, and families.

His grades improved, and he was looking forward to returning to school for his junior year, said his mother, Maria Raine, a social worker and therapist. In family pictures taken weeks before his death, he stands with his arms folded, a big smile on his face. Seeking answers, his father, Matt Raine, a hotel executive, turned to Adam’s iPhone, thinking his text messages or social media apps might hold clues about what had happened.

Dudley Council is paying up to £160,000 a year to place a single pupil in a private special needs school. Special educational needs and disability (SEND) pupils are placed in independent schools by tribunals which handle appeals against local authority decisions on special educational needs.

“Today’s issues are increasingly complex, and the challenges people face are often manifestations of intractable as well as intertwined problems,” said Mr Lee, who is also Minister-in-charge of Social Services Integration. He was speaking at the launch of Singapore University of Social Sciences’ (SUSS) new School of Social Work and Social Development at the campus in Clementi.

The Parow Regional Court heard gripping details from the social worker who explained that during their first counselling session, the victim, who was a minor at the time, aged 10, was pregnant.

Psychiatrist Dr. Karen Norberg’s brain has steered her to study such heavy duty subjects as the daycare effect, the rise in youth suicide, and the risk of prescribing selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors as a treatment for depression. On a lighter note, it also told her to devote nine months to knitting an anatomically correct replica of the human brain (twelve, if you count three months of research before casting on).