It’s a Climate Election Now | Trump’s reported billion-dollar offer to fossil-fuel executives shows that this is the key year to save the planet. (www.newyorker.com)
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Hundreds of counties around the USA have ended in-person jail visits, replacing them with video calls and earning a cut of the profits (www.newyorker.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/the-jails-that-forbid-children-…
A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It? (www.newyorker.com)
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Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s Minister of Chaos (www.newyorker.com)
Feb. 2023 New Yorker profile unknowingly giving a prelude of what was to come....
“Denying a Diagnosis,” by Rachel Aviv (www.newyorker.com)
The Hidden-Pregnancy Experiment - We are increasingly trading our privacy for a sense of security. Becoming a parent showed me how tempting, and how dangerous, that exchange can be. (www.newyorker.com)
What George Kelly’s Mistrial Says About How We See the Border (www.newyorker.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/what-george-kellys-mistrial-say…
The Dumbphone Boom Is Real (www.newyorker.com)
Stumbled upon this article about the rising popularity of dumbphones....
Inside Israel’s Bombing Campaign in Gaza: Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham on his investigations of the I.D.F.’s use of A.I.-backed targeting systems (www.newyorker.com)
An excellent interview from the journalist whose investigative reporting exposed the extensive use of machine learning systems by Israel to target Hamas members while at home with their families.
Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore (www.newyorker.com)
The Dumbphone Boom Is Real - A burgeoning cottage industry caters to beleaguered smartphone users desperate to escape their screens. (www.newyorker.com)
TIL that up to 3.7% of pregnancies have misattributed paternity where the child (and possibly the mother) thought the father was someone else (www.newyorker.com)
[2018] Israel Kills Dozens of Mostly Unarmed Protesters in Gaza as Jared Kushner Speaks of Peace, in Jerusalem (www.newyorker.com)
[2018] Israel Kills Dozens of Mostly Unarmed Protesters in Gaza as Jared Kushner Speaks of Peace, in Jerusalem (www.newyorker.com)
The Magic of Bird Brains: Crows are smart enough to pick up trash. Why won’t they? (www.newyorker.com)
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Is the Fight Against Climate Change Losing Momentum? Some financial institutions are backing away from emission pledges. (www.newyorker.com)
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"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson (www.newyorker.com)
“The Gorge” by Umberto Eco (www.newyorker.com)
LOOOOVE Umberto Eco
What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain? (www.newyorker.com)
The Children Who Lost Limbs in Gaza (www.newyorker.com)
More than a thousand children who were injured in the war are now amputees. What do their futures hold?
The Children Who Lost Limbs in Gaza (www.newyorker.com)
More than a thousand children who were injured in the war are now amputees. What do their futures hold?
Why Is the Sea So Hot? A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing. (www.newyorker.com)
The Terrifying A.I. Scam That Uses Your Loved One’s Voice: A couple in the U.S. got a call from relatives who were being held ransom. Their voices—like many others these days—had been cloned (www.newyorker.com)
Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing seemingly every aspect of our lives: medical diagnosis, weather forecasting, space exploration, and even mundane tasks like writing e-mails and searching the Internet. But with increased efficiencies and computational accuracy has come a Pandora’s box of trouble.
OK doomer (www.newyorker.com)
The New Yorker has a piece on the Bay Area AI doomer and e/acc scenes....
The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I. | How can the world reach net zero if it keeps inventing new ways to consume energy? (www.newyorker.com)
