Non-Profit News

Legal Complications Await If OpenAI Tries To Shake Off Control By The Nonprofit That Owns The Rapidly Growing Tech Company

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/27/2024 - 4:00am

OpenAI, the tech company that created the popular ChatGPT chatbot, is at a crossroads.

It began as a nonprofit dedicated to developing artificial intelligence systems smarter than humans. Since its founding, OpenAI has boasted that it was upholding its nonprofit goal – “to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) that is safe and benefits all of humanity.”

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Inside Rep. Jennifer Wexton’s Emotional Final Meeting With The Families Who Started It All

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/27/2024 - 3:00am

Originally published by The 19th

In 2019, newly elected Rep. Jennifer Wexton held her initial constituent meeting with the members of Little Lobbyists, a national advocacy organization for children with complex medical needs. Mothers brought their children and talked about the impact of federal policies in their lives.

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Beef Over Beef: In North Platte, Promises Of Economic Boom Smash Into Fears Over Immigrants

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/20/2024 - 7:00am

The Sustainable Beef worksite is currently limited to construction workers, and danger signs are posted along the road on the plant’s north side. But the plant will soon be operational and will quickly become one of the city’s biggest employers, bringing an estimated 2,500 people to North Platte, as employees and their families move in to fill the predicted 800 jobs.
(Lori Potter / Flatwater Free Press)

NORTH PLATTE – In light, cursive script, she strings newly learned verbs into sentences.

She sounds out each foreign syllable, practicing with the volunteer teacher.

“Yo escucho, tu escuchas,” Janet Evans recites. I listen. You listen.

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Sez Us

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/20/2024 - 6:00am

Sez Us is a new social media platform founded by long-time Democratic strategist Joe Trippi. It's an alternative to "X" and Truth Social, which are of course now wholly controlled subsidiaries of Donald Trump Inc. Trippi, who recently appeared on my podcast, "No Holding Back," is as smart as any Democrat I know and has been around the block even more times than I have.

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I’m A Neuroscientist Who Taught Rats To Drive − Their Joy Suggests How Anticipating Fun Can Enrich Human Life

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/20/2024 - 5:00am

Rats hitting the road in their custom-made cruisers.
(Kelly Lamber / The Conversation)

We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a gas pedal. Before long, they were steering with surprising precision to reach a Froot Loop treat.

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New App Deployed To Help Cut Overapplication Of Nitrogen Fertilizer

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/20/2024 - 4:00am

LINCOLN — Eleven years ago, Wade Ellwanger began analyzing reports submitted by farmers detailing the amount of fertilizer being applied on cornfields in his area of north-central Nebraska.

What he found was a “shocker” — 91% of farmers were overapplying nitrogen fertilizer to their crops, with some spreading up to 30 pounds more per acre than recommended by agronomists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Clean Energy Could Create Millions Of Tons Of Waste In India. Some Are Working To Avoid That

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/20/2024 - 3:00am

A group of tailors work in a small garage using electric sewing machines to stitch office uniforms and bags at the campus of the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement, a nongovernmental organization that works to help poor and Indigenous communities, in Kenchanahalli, India, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024.
(Aijaz Rahi / AP Photo)

KENCHANAHALLI, India (AP) — On the edges of a dense forest in southern India, six women in a small garage are busy stitching cloth bags, pants, hospital gowns and office uniforms with automated sewing machines.

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'Salt of the Earth' - The Stories That Make America

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 6:00am

OXFORD, Pennsylvania -- Despite the wealth of information at our fingertips in the information age, there is a glaring emptiness that plagues us in our storytelling.

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Reasonable Hope for Nebraskan’s Mental Health

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/13/2024 - 7:00am

Executive Director of NAMI Nebraska, James Michael Bowers (left) holding up the highest value item sold at the NAMI Charity Auction, bought by Nebraskon Convention Chair Becky Potter (right), for $1000.
(Austin Petak / The Daily Record)

There is a conversation to be had about mental health that hasn’t happened yet. Not anywhere in all the earth has it happened to any degree of merit because the person that needs to have it, has yet to have had it. That which could be said to assuage the tyranny of the inner workings of the soul could be written in a book or on a billboard, but its effect is entirely wasted.

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'Salt of the Earth' - The Stories That Make America

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/13/2024 - 6:00am

OXFORD, Pennsylvania -- Despite the wealth of information at our fingertips in the information age, there is a glaring emptiness that plagues us in our storytelling.