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A new report finds
“credible sexual harassment allegations against 162 sitting [US] state officials, in 424 incidents
between 2013 and 2026.”
/ Mother Jones
See also:
The US Constitution says it’s Congress’s job to police its members, yet time and again current leaders refuse to do anything that might
diminish their margin.
/ The Washington Post [$]
How NASA’s
Orion
managed to send high-definition images back to Earth: Instead of relying solely on traditional radio waves, they used
optical laser communications.
/ Ars Technica
More than 34 million
people along the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at “very high” or “high” risk of flooding, according to one of the most comprehensive
studies on floods.
/ The Associated Press
The Strait of Hormuz closure
means aluminum is suffering “probably the largest single supply shock a base metals market has suffered in the
post-2000 era.”
/ Reuters
Since 2003, disease
—and now tariffs and a historic freeze—have caused Florida’s once-mighty orange industry to decline by
more than 95%.
/ Slate
See also:
With hundreds of new varieties developed every year, America’s bioengineered potato industry is booming, and it’s all
about the chips.
/ The Associated Press
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New evidence reveals
cemeteries as thriving centers of biodiversity for insects and other wildlife—possibly due in part to the lack of
human activity.
/ Grist
Unearthly, vibrant
sculptures of marine life,
by Lisa Stevens.
/ Colossal
People’s reverence for
certain artworks can border on treating the objects like people, except what does it mean when the art
refuses to reciprocate?
/ Hyperallergic
“In the act of becoming
automatons, we bring ourselves that much closer to the thing we really fear: being left alone, without any of the care or materials we
need to survive.”
/ A Working Library
For well over a century,
empathy has played a larger role in shaping how humans approach the world, and it would be disastrous
for that to end.
/ The Hedgehog Review
“If our enemies
have no oversight then why should we?” Palantir’s manifesto, translated
for humans.
/ The Verge [$]
Members of a North Korean
hacking group who, according to one expert, “don't have the skills to write code” are now able to do significant damage
thanks to AI.
/ WIRED
“Don’t blame books
for being too expensive. Everything else is more expensive, and that’s why you
can’t afford books.”
/ Miller’s Book Review
Cormac McCarthy’s
Lotus Esprit S4 is up for auction by his brother, who says the late author was known to tear across Texas on 100 mph-plus
road trips.
/ InsideHook
See also:
A profile of opera singer, mountain climber, and race car driver Dmitri Nabokov, who was also his father’s best translator
and collaborator.
/ The Morning News
Unrelated:
McLaren has signed its youngest driver yet—an 11-year-old—to its
development program.
/ BBC Sport
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A new report finds
“credible sexual harassment allegations against 162 sitting [US] state officials, in 424 incidents
between 2013 and 2026.”
/ Mother Jones
See also:
The US Constitution says it’s Congress’s job to police its members, yet time and again current leaders refuse to do anything that might
diminish their margin.
/ The Washington Post [$]
How NASA’s
Orion
managed to send high-definition images back to Earth: Instead of relying solely on traditional radio waves, they used
optical laser communications.
/ Ars Technica
More than 34 million
people along the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at “very high” or “high” risk of flooding, according to one of the most comprehensive
studies on floods.
/ The Associated Press
The Strait of Hormuz closure
means aluminum is suffering “probably the largest single supply shock a base metals market has suffered in the
post-2000 era.”
/ Reuters
Since 2003, disease
—and now tariffs and a historic freeze—have caused Florida’s once-mighty orange industry to decline by
more than 95%.
/ Slate
See also:
With hundreds of new varieties developed every year, America’s bioengineered potato industry is booming, and it’s all
about the chips.
/ The Associated Press
If you enjoy these headlines, please join us as a Sustaining Member to support what we do and unlock access to paywalled links.
Subscribe
New evidence reveals
cemeteries as thriving centers of biodiversity for insects and other wildlife—possibly due in part to the lack of
human activity.
/ Grist
Unearthly, vibrant
sculptures of marine life,
by Lisa Stevens.
/ Colossal
People’s reverence for
certain artworks can border on treating the objects like people, except what does it mean when the art
refuses to reciprocate?
/ Hyperallergic
“In the act of becoming
automatons, we bring ourselves that much closer to the thing we really fear: being left alone, without any of the care or materials we
need to survive.”
/ A Working Library
For well over a century,
empathy has played a larger role in shaping how humans approach the world, and it would be disastrous
for that to end.
/ The Hedgehog Review
“If our enemies
have no oversight then why should we?” Palantir’s manifesto, translated
for humans.
/ The Verge [$]
Members of a North Korean
hacking group who, according to one expert, “don't have the skills to write code” are now able to do significant damage
thanks to AI.
/ WIRED
“Don’t blame books
for being too expensive. Everything else is more expensive, and that’s why you
can’t afford books.”
/ Miller’s Book Review
Cormac McCarthy’s
Lotus Esprit S4 is up for auction by his brother, who says the late author was known to tear across Texas on 100 mph-plus
road trips.
/ InsideHook
See also:
A profile of opera singer, mountain climber, and race car driver Dmitri Nabokov, who was also his father’s best translator
and collaborator.
/ The Morning News
Unrelated:
McLaren has signed its youngest driver yet—an 11-year-old—to its
development program.
/ BBC Sport
In the members area, unlocked links from the Washington Post and the Verge ↓
The rest of this post is for paying subscribers only
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