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https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-memory-wayback-machine-lawsuits/
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The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself | WIRED

The Internet Archive, known for its Wayback Machine, faces legal battles that threaten its existence. Publishers and record labels have sued the Archive for copyright infringement, challenging its fair use defense. The Archive's founder, Brewster Kahle, sees the legal challenges as part of a larger struggle to preserve digital ownership and access to information.

The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself | WIRED
openwrt dhcp leases prometheus metric
local function scrape()
  local metric_dhcp_leases = metric("dhcp_leases_total", "gauge")
  local metric_dhcp_lease_info = metric("dhcp_lease_info", "gauge")
  local leases_file = "/tmp/dhcp.leases"
  local leases_count = 0
  local file = io.open(leases_file, "r")
  if file then
    for line in file:lines() do
      local expiry, mac, ip, hostname, client_id = line:match("^(%d+)%s+([%x:]+)%s+([%d%.]+)%s+([^%s]*)%s+([^%s]*)$")
      if ip and mac then
        leases_count = leases_count + 1
        local labels = {
          ip = ip,
          mac = string.upper(mac),
          hostname = (hostname == "*" or hostname == "") and "unknown" or hostname,
          client_id = (client_id == "*" or client_id == "") and "unknown" or client_id
        }
        metric_dhcp_lease_info(labels, 1)
      end
    end
    file:close()
  end
  metric_dhcp_leases({}, leases_count)
end
return { scrape = scrape }
openwrt dhcp leases prometheus metric
https://stanfordmag.org/contents/words-to-the-wise
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Words to the Wise | STANFORD magazine

The author reflects on giving advice to his son as he moves into his freshman dorm at Stanford, and the unexpected advice he receives in return.

Words to the Wise | STANFORD magazine
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/10/1094475/what-is-artificial-intelligence-ai-definitive-guide/
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What is AI? | MIT Technology Review

Artificial intelligence is a catchall term for a set of technologies that make computers do things that are thought to require intelligence when done by people. But even that definition contains multitudes, which is part of the problem. As this technology moves from prototype to product faster and faster, questions arise for everyone, yet there are no definitive answers, even from those creating it.

What is AI? | MIT Technology Review
https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/blogs/space-cosmology-and-the-universe/what-if-the-big-bang-wasnt-the-beginning-our-research-suggests-it-may-have-taken-place-inside-a-black-hole
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What if the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning?

Professor Enrique Gaztanaga from the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth, puts forward a new theory about how the Universe was created. The Big Bang may not have been the start of everything, but rather the outcome of a gravitational crunch or collapse that formed a very massive black hole – followed by a bounce inside it.

What if the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/legal-sports-gambling-was-mistake/679925/
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Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake - The Atlantic

Legalizing sports gambling has led to financial and familial misery, disproportionately affecting economically vulnerable households. Studies show it depletes savings, increases bankruptcy risk, and correlates with domestic violence. Tax revenue is low, and the illegal market persists. Banning sports gambling again is the most effective solution.

Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake - The Atlantic
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/its-the-end-of-observability-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine
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It’s The End Of Observability As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

The history of observability tools has been about making terabytes of heterogeneous telemetry data comprehensible to human beings. AI is changing this paradigm, potentially commoditizing analysis and instrumentation. The key to success is fast feedback loops, collaborative knowledge sharing, and treating everything as an experiment.

It’s The End Of Observability As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
https://annehelen.substack.com/p/how-the-nfl-sells-flag-football-to
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How the NFL Sells Flag Football to Bougie Parents

The article discusses how the NFL is using flag football to sportswash its image in light of concerns about CTE and declining participation in tackle football. The author argues that the NFL is promoting flag football to appeal to a broader audience, including liberal, bougie parents, while still maintaining its tackle football league. The author also notes that the NFL is trying to create a second income stream while bolstering the first.

How the NFL Sells Flag Football to Bougie Parents
https://ui-patterns.com/blog/why-most-design-systems-fail-and-how-to-cultivate-success
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Why most Design Systems fail – and how to cultivate success

Implementing a design system takes more than the creation of the system itself. It is more important to focus strategic integration within an organization’s workflows and culture than it is to design a great system. The primary challenge in rolling out a design system is not its development but ensuring its broad adoption across teams. The key lies in strategic leadership and the establishment of organizational frameworks that facilitate this process. A foundational strategy for ensuring design system adoption is the application of technical constraints. These constraints, such as deployment strategies and technical standards for implementing UI components, serve to streamline development processes and foster a unified approach to product design. By mandating a singular methodology for design and implementation, organizations can cultivate a cohesive culture that naturally aligns with the design system’s principles.

Why most Design Systems fail – and how to cultivate success
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-a-particle-20201112/
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What Is a Particle? | Quanta Magazine

The article explores the evolving understanding of particles in physics. It discusses various perspectives, including particles as pointlike objects, excitations of a field, and mathematical constructs. The article touches on wave-particle duality, quantum field theory, and the ongoing quest for a unified picture of particles, including approaches like string theory and it-from-qubit.

What Is a Particle? | Quanta Magazine
https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
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This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio)

David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement speech to the graduating class at Kenyon College is a timeless trove of wisdom for living a meaningful life. The speech emphasizes the importance of managing our hard-wired human instincts and choosing what to think about in order to avoid living an unconscious, self-centered life. Wallace illustrates how seemingly mundane daily routines offer opportunities to practice awareness and compassion, ultimately leading to a more meaningful and fulfilling existence. He argues that true freedom lies in attention, awareness, discipline, and caring for others.

This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/us/justice-roberts-trump-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K04.Q4BJ.YJ3_OUhIIm1r&smid=url-share
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How Chief Justice Roberts Shaped Trump’s Supreme Court Winning Streak

The article discusses how Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. influenced the Supreme Court's decisions in three Jan. 6-related cases, particularly concerning presidential immunity and Donald Trump's involvement. Roberts's actions, including his handling of the Trump v. United States case, are examined in light of the court's reputation and the separation of powers.

How Chief Justice Roberts Shaped Trump’s Supreme Court Winning Streak
https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/
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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine

The article discusses the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, an anarchist collective teaching people how to make DIY versions of expensive pharmaceuticals at a tiny fraction of the cost, calling it "right to repair for your body." It highlights their efforts to produce drugs like misoprostol, sofosbuvir, EpiPens, and Daraprim at significantly lower costs than their patented counterparts, challenging the pharmaceutical industry and issues of affordability and accessibility of medications.

‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
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https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-complicated-thing-imaginable-20221019/
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Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing’ Imaginable

The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. We’ve attempted to connect the proton’s many faces to form the most complete picture yet. More than a century after Ernest Rutherford discovered the positively charged particle at the heart of every atom, physicists are still struggling to fully understand the proton.

Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing’ Imaginable
https://nautil.us/crows-are-even-smarter-than-we-thought-820066/
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Crows May Be Smarter Than We Thought

New evidence suggests the corvid family has surprising mental abilities. Crows and ravens are known for their high intelligence, playful natures, and strong personalities. They hold grudges against each other, do basic statistics, perform acrobatics, and even host funerals for deceased family members. Earlier this year, a team found that a species of crow called the hooded crow is able to manage a mental feat we once thought was unique to humans: to memorize the shape and size of an object after it is taken away and to reproduce one like it.

Crows May Be Smarter Than We Thought
Common Side Effects
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A Minecraft Movie
A Minecraft Movie
Dan Santat The Aquanaut
The Aquanaut
The Aquanaut
https://stanmed.stanford.edu/scientists-favorite-cells/
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Nine scientists call out their favorite cells

Nine scientists from Stanford Medicine share their favorite cells, highlighting their unique characteristics and vast impact on human evolution, development, and health. The article explores the attributes of cells like choanoflagellates, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, hair cells, trophoblasts, Salmonella Typhi, sinoatrial node cells, hematopoietic stem cells, Purkinje cells, and fibroblasts, revealing their importance and the fascinating research behind them.

Nine scientists call out their favorite cells
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/05/16/detecting-malicious-unicode/
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Detecting malicious Unicode

Curl contributor James Fuller submitted a pull-request to the project in which he replaced an ASCII letter with a Unicode alternative in a URL. This was an eye-opener and the curl project decided to implement checks to detect malicious Unicode. They have added a CI job that scans all files and validates every UTF-8 sequence in the git repository. GitHub has been notified of the issue and is working on a fix.

Detecting malicious Unicode
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-company-reminder-for-everyone-to-talk-nicely-about-the-giant-plagiarism-machine
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A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine

A satirical piece, written as a company reminder from the CEO, addressing employees who have been critical of the company's new "Giant Plagiarism Machine™." The CEO insists that the company is pro–Plagiarism Machine™ and that employees should not express concerns about job stability or the potential negative impact on humankind. The reminder is framed as a demand for techno-optimism and a warning against voicing concerns about the machine.

A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-future-is-analog-if-you-can-afford-it/
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The Future is Analog (If You Can Afford It) | TechPolicy.Press

The idea of "analog privilege" describes how people at the apex of the social order secure manual overrides from ill-fitting, mass-produced Al products and services. Instead of dealing with one-size-fits-all Al systems, they mobilize their economic or social capital to get special personalized treatment. In the register of tailor-made clothes and ordering off menu, analog privilege spares elites from the reductive, deterministic and simplistic downsides of Al systems.

The Future is Analog (If You Can Afford It) | TechPolicy.Press
https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-explains-laws-incomprehensible-writing-style-0819
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MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style | MIT

An MIT study suggests convoluted language in legal documents conveys authority. Researchers found even non-lawyers use legalese when writing laws. The study, appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, explores why legal documents are difficult to understand, even for lawyers. MIT cognitive scientists believe legalese signals power, akin to magic spells. Edward Gibson, an MIT professor, notes that people seem to follow an implicit rule that laws should sound a certain way.

MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style | MIT
https://jacobin.com/2024/08/sports-betting-taxation-robinhood-draftkings/
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Make Sports Betting Taboo Again

The rise in sports gambling is a boost for states’ tax revenues, but it’s a disaster for the often low-income young men losing their money. Sports betting has undergone near complete casinoization, with governments propping up an addictive, predatory taxation regime aimed at young vulnerable men and calling it their 'fan experience.' The article suggests that the Left should draw a moral line and demand a more complete definancialization of sports, including curtailing sports gambling.

Make Sports Betting Taboo Again
https://www.propublica.org/article/food-desert-grocery-store-cairo-illinois
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Why Opening Grocery Stores Alone Doesn’t Solve Food Deserts — ProPublica

The community of Cairo, Illinois, once a food desert, welcomed its new market last year with balloons and cheers. But the store is struggling — exposing problems with the programs set up to help. Many stores that receive subsidies shutter their doors soon after opening or fail to open at all, and Illinois' record is similarly disappointing. The main concern with them is prices, as emerging stores struggle for many reasons. Food deserts are, by definition, areas with depressed economies and often declining populations, but certain problems repeatedly bubble to the top. Government funding for grocery stores is important to overcoming high startup costs, but without broader solutions to keep these stores open, "we're throwing money away."

Why Opening Grocery Stores Alone Doesn’t Solve Food Deserts — ProPublica
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/sports/table-tennis-anthony-edwards.html
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Not Even Anthony Edwards Can Beat an Olympic Table Tennis Player

Lily Zhang and her teammates from the United States table tennis team were hanging out on a large boat, making small talk with Stephen Curry, when the topic of Anthony Edwards' table tennis skills came up. This led to a friendly debate about whether Edwards could score a point against them. Everywhere they go, the world's best table tennis players meet strangers who believe they can hold their own against them, often underestimating the skill required.

Not Even Anthony Edwards Can Beat an Olympic Table Tennis Player
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/sycophantic-ai/682743
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AI Is Not Your Friend

The article discusses how AI chatbots, particularly after updates meant to improve their conversational abilities, exhibit sycophantic behavior, excessively flattering users' ideas. This issue, stemming from Reinforcement Learning From Human Feedback (RLHF), mirrors the problems of social media as a 'justification machine,' reinforcing users' biases. The author argues that opinionated chatbots are a poor application of AI and suggests a better approach: AI should serve as a tool providing access to shared knowledge and diverse perspectives, rather than offering its own opinions. Drawing parallels with Vannevar Bush's vision of the 'memex,' the author advocates for AI systems that connect users to a rich tapestry of knowledge, showing connections, contradictions, and the complexities of human understanding, ultimately broadening knowledge rather than simply reaffirming existing positions.

AI Is Not Your Friend
https://www.owlposting.com/p/some-questions-and-answers-i-had
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A primer on the current state of longevity research

This article is a primer on the current state of longevity research. It discusses the therapeutic focus on sirtuins, longevity-focused research institutions/grant programs/startups, cellular reprogramming, and biological clocks.

A primer on the current state of longevity research
https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-school-vouchers-budget-meltdown
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Arizona School Voucher Program Causes Budget Meltdown

In 2022, Arizona pioneered the largest school voucher program in the history of education. Under a new law, any parent in the state, no matter how affluent, could get a taxpayer-funded voucher worth up to tens of thousands of dollars to spend on private school tuition, extracurricular programs or homeschooling supplies. In just the past two years, nearly a dozen states have enacted sweeping voucher programs similar to Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account system, with many using it as a model. Yet in a lesson for these other states, Arizona’s voucher experiment has since precipitated a budget meltdown. The state this year faced a $1.4 billion budget shortfall, much of which was a result of the new voucher spending, according to the Grand Canyon Institute, a local nonpartisan fiscal and economic policy think tank. As a result of all this unexpected spending, alongside some recent revenue losses, Arizona is now having to make deep cuts to a wide swath of critical state programs and projects, the pain of which will be felt by average Arizonans who may or may not have school-aged children.

Arizona School Voucher Program Causes Budget Meltdown
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/science/space/chandra-videos-supernova-explosions.html
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Chandra Observatory Captures Two Supernovas in (Slow) Motion

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has been recording the roiling aftermath of two mighty supernova explosions that occurred hundreds of years ago. Astronomers combined Chandra's X-ray images into videos that document the evolution of two astrophysical landmarks: the Crab nebula and Cassiopeia A. The videos show twisting, drifting ribbons of the remains of the star being churned by shock waves and illuminated by radiation from the dense, spinning cores left behind.

Chandra Observatory Captures Two Supernovas in (Slow) Motion
https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/a-response-to-hachette-v-internet-archive-from-michelle-wu
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Library Futures | A Response to Hachette v. Internet Archive from Michelle

Michelle Wu, retired law library director and professor at Georgetown Law, responds to the oral arguments in the Hachette v. Internet Archive appeal. She discusses three lines of questioning and two repeated claims, arguing that the court should recognize that copyright is purposeful and that fair use is contextual. She also argues that CDL serves authors and the public by providing financial support for authors and publishers and stable public access to works by current and future readers.

Library Futures | A Response to Hachette v. Internet Archive from Michelle
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/dont-watermark-your-legal-pdfs-with-purple-dragons-in-suits/
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Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits

Federal judges do not like it when lawyers electronically watermark every page of their legal PDFs with a gigantic image-purchased for $20 online-of a purple dragon wearing a suit and tie. Not even if your firm's name is "Dragon Lawyers." Federal Magistrate Judge Ray Kent of the Western District of Michigan was unamused by a recent complaint (PDF) that prominently featured the aubergine wyrm. The unusual order generated coverage across the legal blogging community, which was apparently ensorcelled by a spell requiring headline writers to use dragon-related puns.

Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits
https://www.anildash.com//2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/
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"AI-first" is the new Return To Office - Anil Dash

The article discusses the trend among tech CEOs of demanding that all work be AI-first. The author uses personal anecdotes and observations to critique this approach, suggesting it stems from groupthink and a desire to signal participation in the AI trend rather than genuine utility. The author contrasts this with a more normal approach to technology adoption, where tools are chosen based on their utility and workers are trusted to judge what is useful for them.

"AI-first" is the new Return To Office - Anil Dash
https://thehustle.co/the-people-making-millions-off-listerine-royalties
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The people making millions off Listerine royalties

A little-known provision in a 100-year-old contract opened up the door for private investors to mint money from mouthwash sales. For every 2,016 ounces of Listerine sold, Johnson & Johnson pays a total of $6 to Listerine’s royalty holders. The Baird Foundation’s 0.5% share in the Listerine royalty trust totals to about $120k per year in passive income. The story of the Listerine royalty trust is a cautionary tale in contract law.

The people making millions off Listerine royalties
https://www.filfre.net/2024/05/riven/
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Riven | The Digital Antiquarian

Riven, the sequel to Myst, refines the formula of its predecessor, offering a more intricate and visually stunning world to explore. It emphasizes restraint and thorough world-building, creating an immersive experience for players. The game scatters puzzles and clues throughout the five islands and you are expected to connect a symbol you're looking at now to a gadget you last poked at hours and hours ago.

Riven | The Digital Antiquarian
N. K. Jemisin The Stone Sky
The Stone Sky
The Stone Sky
https://time.com/6974579/japan-food-culture-low-obesity/
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Breaking Down Japan's Food Culture | TIME

Japan has one of the lowest obesity rates in the world. The Japanese cuisine's core feature is simplicity. For them, the simpler, the better. Japanese meals have very small portions, but more of them-five in a typical meal. In Japan, you are taught from a very early age to only eat until you feel you are 80% full. It was only when Imperial Japan was creating an army to attack other parts of Asia that a new food culture began to be invented, quite consciously, to produce healthier soldiers. In 2008, the Japanese government noticed that obesity was slightly rising and introduced the "Metabo Law," which was designed to reduce the negative consequences of a large waistline.

Breaking Down Japan's Food Culture | TIME
https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships
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The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat

The internet is carried around the world by hundreds of thousands of miles of slender cables that sit at the bottom of the ocean. These fragile wires are constantly breaking a precarious system on which everything from banks to governments to TikTok depends. But thanks to a secretive global network of ships on standby, every broken cable is quickly fixed. This is the story of the people who repair the world's most important infrastructure.

The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
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https://www.debtinperspective.com/

Understanding the Cuts | US Debt in Perspective

An interactive exploration of the US national debt, scaled down to comprehensible numbers to help understand the true scale of government finances. The site scales down all government finances by a factor of 36 million to bring these enormous numbers into a range that's easier to grasp, illustrating the scale challenge: while the savings from each cancelled grant might sound substantial in isolation, they represent an incredibly small fraction of the federal budget. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has cancelled 21,564 grants and contracts at a massive social cost to vulnerable communities, research programs, and essential services—all while reducing spending by just $1,773. Policy options that eclipse the DOGE savings include taxing all foreign income of U.S. corporations and taxing greenhouse gas emissions.

Understanding the Cuts | US Debt in Perspective
https://www.propublica.org/article/delusion-advanced-chemical-plastic-recycling-pyrolysis
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The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis

The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’t curb the crisis. The article delves into the complexities and realities behind pyrolysis, an 'advanced' recycling method, revealing that it is not as effective or sustainable as it is portrayed.

The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis
https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/
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Link Rot and Digital Decay on Government, News and Other Webpages | Pew Res

Pew Research Center analysis shows that a quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible, as of October 2023. For older content, this trend is even starker. Some 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are not available today, compared with 8% of pages that existed in 2023. 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link, as do 21% of webpages from government sites. 54% of Wikipedia pages contain at least one link in their “References” section that points to a page that no longer exists. Nearly one-in-five tweets are no longer publicly visible on the site just months after being posted.

Link Rot and Digital Decay on Government, News and Other Webpages | Pew Res
https://greyenlightenment.com/2024/05/11/the-age-of-rage-why-are-peopel-are-so-angry/

The Age of Rage: Why are People are So Angry?

The article discusses the increasing anger and dissatisfaction in American society, linking it to economic factors like inflation and shrinkflation, as well as psychological factors such as social media and the atomization of society. It argues that people are experiencing low-level anxiety due to unmet social needs and disillusionment with society, and that the pursuit of individual success has led to resentment and anger when expectations are not met.

The Age of Rage: Why are People are So Angry?
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https://stonemaiergames.com/we-are-suing-the-president/
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We Are Suing the President

Stonemaier Games is joining a lawsuit to challenge the President’s unchecked authority to impose tariffs. The company faces $1.5 million in tariff payments due to the new norm of a 145% tariff imposed by the President on all exports from China to the US. They are also selling to other countries, storing US quantities in China, and sending out-of-stock US quantities to the US.

We Are Suing the President
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/07/play-streets-children-adults/679258/
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Play Streets for Kids Are Magic—For Adults

In the summer of 2009, Amy Rose and Alice Ferguson, two mothers living on Greville Road in Bristol, a midsize city in southwest England, found themselves in a strange predicament: They saw entirely too much of their kids. The friends decided to run an experiment. They applied to shut their quarter-mile road to traffic for two hours after school on a June afternoon—not for a party or an event but just to let the children who lived there play. The results were breathtaking. The dozens of kids who showed up had no problem finding things to do. Suddenly, the modern approach to children’s play, in which parents shuttle their kids to playgrounds or other structured activities, seemed both needlessly extravagant and wholly insufficient. Kids didn’t need special equipment or lessons; they just needed to be less reliant on their time-strapped parents to get outside.

Play Streets for Kids Are Magic—For Adults
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/endangered-sea-turtle-populations-show-signs-recovery-half-world-surve-rcna201788
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Endangered sea turtle populations show signs of recovery in more than half the world, survey finds

Endangered sea turtles show signs of recovery in a majority of places where they’re found worldwide, according to a new global survey released Thursday. The study looked at 48 populations of sea turtles around the world and measured the impacts of threats such as hunting, pollution, coastal development and climate change to the marine animals. In more than half of the areas studied, threats are declining overall, the study found.

Endangered sea turtle populations show signs of recovery in more than half the world, survey finds
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