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> Goldman economist Pierfrancesco Mei found that workers displaced from AI-exposed jobs since 2025 took about a month longer to find a new job than other displaced workers. They were also roughly 10 percentage points more likely to still be unemployed a year after losing their job. Those effects are “comparable in magnitude” to what Goldman found in earlier waves of technological change, he wrote, calling the damage from those waves “long-lasting.”

> As in those waves, older workers are having the harder time so far. AI-displaced workers 35 and older took about five weeks longer than other displaced workers to get back to full-time work. For those under 35, it was about three weeks.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/politics/sir-trump-telltale-w...

I read an interesting article with some language analysis that theorized whenever Trump is making up a story about someone saying something that didn't happen has has them call him "sir" to flatter his own ego. It's been noticed by a few different people.

> "Trump often tells two kinds of fake stories: Stories about going home to his wife Melania after rallies, and stories about generals and other people who come up to him and call him 'sir,'" said Meyers, pointing out that the president seemed to mix up these narratives at his Tuesday rally in Pennsylvania. Speaking about going home (which he apparently does "all the time"), Trump said Melania called him "sir" — not exactly an affectionate name to call your husband.

> I’ve fact-checked every word Trump has uttered since his inauguration. I can tell you that if this President relays an anecdote in which he has someone referring to him as “sir,” then some major component of the anecdote is very likely to be wrong.

> Lots of people do call Trump “sir,” of course. But the word seems to pop into his head more frequently when he is inventing or exaggerating a conversation than when he is faithfully relaying one. A “sir” is a flashing red light that he is speaking from his imagination rather than his memory.