The US will soon learn how bad its PFAS crisis is. But Maine has already begun to look—and is waking up to a nightmare. For The Atlantic I spoke to a family realizing they drank toxic water for 30 years, and what it may have cost them. Maine is a warning: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Gen. Chris Cavoli, commander of US European Command, tells HASC that the Russians are currently firing 5 times as many artillery shells as the Ukrainians on the battlefield, and that number will go up to 10 to 1 “in a matter of weeks' as the Ukrainians continue to ration.

'We're…

“Exposure to PFAS has been associated with metabolic disorders, decreased fertility in women, developmental delays in children and increased risk of some prostate, kidney and testicular cancers, according to the E.P.A.” nytimes.com/2024/04/10/cli…

Very thorough investigation on #deforestation in #Ukraine as a result of Russia's invasion. Great use of remote sensing to document how military activities caused forest fires and logging, with long-term implications for protected areas and biodiversity

ngl.media/2024/04/08/zru…

A teacher promised his 1978 class an eclipse party. He just hosted it. washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04…

Check out my piece on Larry David, and how he’s the last of a bunch of different things thenation.com/article/cultur…

'We are being threatened by replacement with tools that are not qualified to replace us.'

As Hollywood executives muse about replacing animators & visual affects workers with AI, I wrote about the labor unions preparing to fight back: context.news/ai/hollywood-a…

Mexico breaks relations with Ecuador after embassy raid wapo.st/4cJfpyi

There’s a sports book across the street from the Pete Rose statue at Great American Ball Park.

As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push ‘anti-diet’ advice washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/…

Ermmm what?

THE west village!!!! T H E!!!!!

“Be careful with shorts,” advises Argentina's Health Minister, as the country suffers a record dengue outbreak and stores are emptied of mosquito repellent.

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Assisted living managers say an algorithm prevented hiring enough staff washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

The new uniforms are so bad they radicalized Brandon Nimmo.

The thread below:
- summarizes a magazine feature that probably took months to report
- screenshots huge swaths of the text
- never even links to it

Our dominant information platforms not only tolerate this kind of theft, they incentivize it. No wonder the media are struggling.

This project has been a long time in the works, and is as much a story of the history of Gaza as it is what is currently happening there. Lots of photography, video, satellite and imagery coupled with interviews with real people who value the education they received in Gaza

New: ChatGPT continues to pollute spaces where people go to acquire knowledge. ChatGPT generated books are being indexed in Google Books, and could impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use throughout history 404media.co/google-books-i…

Mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII devastated SF's Japantown - what was once a rich, thriving neighborhood for Japanese Americans

For the first time, we can visualize how disastrous a 1942 order was on the community San Francisco Chronicle

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'Thousands of Palestinians — most of them women and children or people who were not involved in the fighting — were wiped out by Israeli airstrikes, especially during the first weeks of the war, because of the AI program’s decisions.'

972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…