Comparison: We’re really putting a lot of money into building a pipeline for nursing, but if nurses are leaving after a year or two of getting into employment, the problem isn’t so much a pipeline problem as a leaking gas tank. Karen Lasater, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, is quoted in Time as she attempts to counteract the common perception of a nursing shortage in the United States and the world. We frequently use a “pipeline“ as a stealth

Comparison: . . . Trump, his children and their hangers-on started using his current stint in the White House as a bejeweled A.T.M. vomiting crisp million-dollar bills into their greedy hands Frank Bruni writing with Bret Stevens in a New York Times op-ed notes that opportunities offered to those associated with Donald Trump via family or administration ties seems to result in higher totals in various bank accounts. Do tell! Many thanks to P. Amick for sharing the comparison.

Comparison: As the evidence mounts that terrible answers and jailbreaks are an inevitable part of the technology, the industry’s focus has lately shifted to building digital cages, essentially more deterministic, symbolic harnesses to contain the generative A.I. engine and check its results. Zeynep Tufekci writing in the New York Times suggests that our worry over AI stealing jobs, while not unfounded, is overblown in much media coverage. How then to control jailbreaks and ot