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The state-legal cannabis industry welcomed news this week that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration plans to reschedule marijuana as a less-dangerous drug.If that does indeed happen, the move would open up lucrative tax deductions and credits enjoyed by federally legal businesses.But rescheduling doesn’t make marijuana fully legal, and the industry has been battered by oversupply, a general lack of access to mainstream institutional investors and lending, and competition from the illegal market, where weed can be had at lower prices.”It offers significant economic relief to licensed businesses,” says Erik Knutson, chairman of the American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp.…

The formula milk industry’s marketing tactics are exploitative and urgent clampdowns are needed to tackle misleading claims and political interference, according to a new three-paper series published in The Lancet today. Industry influence – which includes lobbying against vital breastfeeding support measures – seriously jeopardizes the health and rights of women and children, the papers show.“This new research highlights the vast economic and political power of the big formula milk companies, as well as serious public policy failures that prevent millions of women from breastfeeding their children,” said Professor Nigel Rollins, Scientist at WHO and author of a paper on…

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Setting clear boundaries as a freelancer helps you safely balance the demands of self-employment … [+] without burning outgetty With today’s increasingly popularized gig economy, we often see self-employment, side hustles, and freelancing touted as the means to gain financial freedom, career success, and autonomy, and to achieve your dream lifestyle on your own terms while enjoying a healthy work/life balance. While these are certainly true, the opposite can also prove to be true, especially in the early stages of launching your side hustle. Being a self-employed worker carries the allure of freedom and flexibility while supplementing your income, and…

Previously, ChatGPT users could only retain chat history if they agreed to OpenAI’s data usage terms for training. However, recent developments have changed this condition.In April of the previous year, OpenAI responded to concerns about data usage by offering the option to disable chat history in ChatGPT. Privacy concerns arose as OpenAI’s policy hinted at collecting personal data for business purposes. This move sparked debates, leading to actions like the Italian government’s ban on ChatGPT over data collection allegations.Addressing these concerns, OpenAI announced on X that users can now store chat history without compromising privacy. Whether they toggle the conversation…

Whales accumulated over $9 million worth of ERC-20 tokens. Pepe and LINK saw a more positive price trend than UNI. Recently, Pepe [PEPE], Uniswap [UNI], and Chainlink [LINK] witnessed significant whale accumulations. While UNI stood out with its distinct price trend, PEPE and LINK displayed similar price movements. Another commonality among these assets is that they are all ERC-20 tokens. The ongoing accumulation and price trends are considered a bullish signal, which could impact the Ethereum [ETH] network. Whales accumulate Pepe, Chainlink, and Uniswap According to data from Lookonchain, whales engaged in significant accumulation activities on the 4th of May,…

A chillwave musician last week uploaded the first entirely artificial intelligence-generated music video created by OpenAI’s text-to-video model, Sora.Washed Out’s latest song, “The Hardest Part,” was released Thursday, complete with a four-minute music video following a couple’s romance from high school through the rest of their adult lives together — speeding through scenes alluding to a wedding, child-rearing and eventual death.The video’s director, Paul Trillio, wrote in a statement shared by Washed Out’s record label, Sub Pop, that he had wanted to film such an “infinite zoom” concept for a decade now but never attempted it because he believed it…

Two Grand Masters Dragon Boat club teams, the Leatherneck Warriors and the Silver Dragons, participated in April at the Tampa Bay International Dragon Boat Festival at Rocky Point Lagoon. The 450-meter races, featuring both 10 and 20 person boats, were a challenge well met by the dedicated paddlers on these teams with all championship race finish times just over the two-minute mark. The Leatherneck Warriors participated in the event at Tampa Bay. The Leatherneck Warriors Senior 10 mixed team won silver with a time of 2:13.73 missing the gold by 8/10 of a second. The Silver Dragons Senior 20 women’s…

There are many ways to make money, but making money with money is the most efficient way. Finance is an industry that uses money to make money. However, finance and bubbles are like twin brothers. Where there are financial products, there are bubbles. In the eyes of ordinary people, bubbles are risks, so ordinary people always feel that finance is far away from them. For financial players, bubbles are opportunities. They will swim in the bubble and make huge profits from it. If you let people who are good at making money from bubbles work for you. Don’t you also…

YouTube is adding shopping features to Shorts, its TikTok-like short-form video product, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Tuesday. The new shopping features allow users to purchase products as they scroll through Shorts. The news was first reported by the Financial Times.The company is starting to introduce shopping features on YouTube Shorts with eligible creators in the United States who are currently piloting the ability to tag products from their own stores. Viewers in the United States, India, Brazil, Canada and Australia can see the tags and shop through the Shorts. YouTube says it plans to continue bringing tagging to…