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Ecuador's next president faces rampant drug violence and few resources to combat it
2025-05-01 13:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Ecuador's leftist presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez on the left and Ecuador's president and presidential candidate Daniel Noboa on the right. ARMANDO PRADOMARCOS PIN/AFP hide caption toggle caption ARMANDO PRADOMARCOS PIN/AFP GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador Sunday's presidential election in Ecuador is one of the closest and most decisive in recent years. It comes as drug gang violence hits record levels, with Ecuador now experiencing one of the highest homicide rates in Latin America. At the same time the economy has stalled leaving few resources to combat the rising crime. Once one of the most peaceful countries in the region, Ecuador has become a major transportation hub for cocaine trafficking to the U.S. and Europe. Sunday's vote is a repeat of the 2023 race between Daniel Noboa, now the president, and former lawmaker and lawyer Luisa González. Two years later, this contest has become much tighter. During the first round last February, both candidates won about 44 percent of the vote. Whi...
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AI Ethics Strategy Lessons From H&M Group
2025-05-01 11:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
The global retailers AI ethics approach acknowledges that formal procedures only go so far. Managers focus on building everyones moral compass to make good decisions, one conversation at a time. Martin Kornberger, Elmira van den Broek, and Stephan Leixnering March 31, 2025 Reading Time: 11 min Topics Ethics Culture Subscribe Permissions and PDF Summary: You cant approach AI ethics with only formal procedures, say leaders at global retailer H&M Group. So to help build its collective moral compass, the company has built a culture of AI ethics based on experimentation. Its AI ethics training emphasizes concrete business examples and principles that teach people what to ask. H&M Groups example shows that organizations can practice AI ethics and become better at it despite not knowing what best looks like.Artificial intelligence changes how organizations work, and thats one of the reasons why it challenges our ethics: Who should take responsibility for automated decisions and actions...
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Bowen Yang opens up about 'healing' after his parents put him in conversion therapy
2025-05-01 11:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Bowen Yang is revisiting a painful part of his adolescent years.In a preview clip for the April 13 episode of Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist, Yang, who is one of a few openlyLGBTQ+ cast membersin the 50-year history of Saturday Night Live, recalled what it was liketo go to gay conversion therapyas a teenager.When Geist asked him how he worked through that difficult time in his life, Yang replied, I didnt really get to work through it.I think I probably wasnt brave enough back then to express that or to package it in a way that they could understand, he said, referring to his parents. Because it felt completely foreign to them and it was completely foreign to them. I came out, quote, unquote, in the sense that my parents just sort of stumbled upon something.In an interview withThe New York Times, Yang explained that he came out to his parents when he was 17 and his parents discovered him having lewd conversations with someone on AOL Instant Messenger.Due to the w...
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