gure out in advance which businesses were likely to manipulate or bend their earnings reports essentially fraudulently make claims about their earnings so that their stock wouldn't go down. So they used AI to see if they can identify the language that's used when they're hiring people for the job of reporting the earnings and doing the calculating. And they found out that the ones who were planning to cheat and planning to lie about their earnings when they were hiring people to be the main person who would do that kind of work they use rule bender sentences. So the rule bender sentences would be that they're looking for somebody who can think outside the box, explore alternative solutions and strategic data interpretation. So apparently if you're looking for somebody who can think outside the box when it comes to reporting your earnings it's sort of a wink wink. We need you to think outside the box. Can you be flexible?

But if they were not planning to fraudulently report their own earnings the rule follower language was they're looking for somebody who can ensure conformance, enforce compliance and provide accurate and timely financial reporting. Now I don't know if this is a reproducible study or not but it does sound like it might be because if you knew you needed somebody to bend the rules I can imagine that your job opening would have some language that was kind of rule bendy right in there.

Anyway the UCLA medical school just got hit with a class action lawsuit for still using DEI and race-based admissions. Fox News is reporting on this and here's my take on all this. It seems like every day there's somebody who's getting defunded because of their DEI. In this case somebody who's going to be part of a class action lawsuit because of their DEI. But I don't think any of it's going to go away. And I think the reason it can't go away is that it's the same people at those entities that put it there in the first place. And so it's going to be a combination of people who are true believers who think they're on the side of the angels and that the government is the bad guys.

Now if you think the government is the bad guys and you're doing the underground railroad or something you feel like you're some kind of a hero by resisting the government. But there might be a much simpler reason why it's never going to go away. Even though the government says it's illegal and there are people suing you and there's all kinds of pressure to get rid of it but it's not going to go away because imagine being part of an organization that had embraced DEI as one of its highest principles and you'd been living that way for years. Then imagine coming into the room and having to give this announcement. Hey everybody I know DEI has been our highest priority and you're looking at your diverse employees by now but it turns out that it was all illegal and it was racist and it turns out we're the racists. We didn't see that coming but it turns out we're the bad guys. So instead of being the bad guys we're going to change everything and stop being racist.

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