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(satire) Study Finds U.S. Employees Waste 2 Million Hours Annually Spending Time With Friends, Family:
The Onion
Study Finds U.S. Employees Waste 2 Million Hours Annually Spending Time With Friends, Family
PHILADELPHIA—A new study published Tuesday by researchers at the Wharton School of Business found that each year, U.S. employees waste 2 million ...
Targeting Trans Kids, Florida School Board Requires Parental Approval for any students to use Nicknames:
The Intercept
Targeting Trans Kids, Florida School Board Requires Parental Approval for Nicknames
The Orange County Public Schools’ anti-trans policies are extreme, even in Ron DeSantis’s Florida.
Fort McMurray, Alberta, was built to extract oil from tar sands. In 2018 it was engulfed by a wildfire caused by the global heating it had helped to cause:
the Guardian
Fire Weather by John Vaillant review – apocalypse in Alberta
This telling of the 2016 inferno that engulfed the oil town of Fort McMurray, and the lives of the people who confronted it, is an urgent warning â...
Sunrise Outlines President Biden's Climate Emergency Powers: https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/sunrise-outlines-president-biden-s-climate-emergency-powers Now if he would only use them.
Polar challenge: as the sea ice melts, can countries come together to protect the Arctic Ocean?
the Guardian
The desperate race to create a protection zone around the rapidly melting Arctic
The ice once protected the Arctic ocean from threats – but as it melts it exposes the sea to fishing, shipping, mining and pollution. Would speci...
An AI system has proved capable of guiding airplans to avoid making contrails:
the Guardian
AI helps airline pilots avoid areas that create polluting contrails
Experiment by Google and American Airlines reduces vapour trails, which are a source of global heating
 This is a good thing to do because contrails add to global heating. I categorize this system as artificial intelligence because it understands a limited field in a way that has been validated. It understands how to avoid making contrails.
Robert Reich explains the elements of fascism and demonstrates that the insurrectionist fits all of them:
Select instance - Invidious
Supposed "AI" that generates recipes generated one which made chlorine gas:
the Guardian
Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas
Pak ‘n’ Save’s Savey Meal-bot cheerfully created unappealing recipes when customers experimented with non-grocery household items
 I can't tell for certain, but this looks like yet another bullshit generator that can come up with things that look smooth but doesn't really know or understand its subject.
From the strain extreme heat puts on your heart to the damage it may do to your mental health, not to mention the increased air pollution, the forecast from global heating isn't good:
the Guardian
‘We’re in serious trouble’: Why a hotter world will be bad for our health
From the strain extreme heat puts on your heart to the damage it does to your mental health, not to mention the increased air pollution, the foreca...