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Syrians: "We have 14 million displaced people; entire cities and towns levelled and wiped from the face of the earth; we're still finding mass graves" Politico:

submitted 47 days ago • 7 comments

I thought this was really well known already? Or are we finding out it's worse than we thought, which would explain why runoff from highways kills fish, which we also already knew?

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

"Walmart makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all. Sometimes consumer prices are an incomplete, even misleading, signal of economic well-being." Fascinating studies on the broader effects of Walmart: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 43 days ago • 108 comments

Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right? Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.

submitted 58 days ago • 93 comments

Who's helping fund the unsupported claims that wind energy development is killing whales? A study from Brown University traces this to money from fossil fuel companies. @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1891...

submitted 76 days ago • 6 comments

UMass/Amherst (left) and Wesleyan University are both warning their international students to be on American soil before noon on Jan 20 -- Inauguration Day.

submitted 91 days ago • 71 comments

The bacteria in your gut depend on where you are in the social network around you. The microbes within us treat our social networks as the extended environment in which they thrive. They can spread from person to person. New #HNL work out today in @natureportfolio.bsky.social . 1/

submitted 94 days ago • 11 comments

If you want to go anywhere in Britain, you can’t rely on the trains, network rail (already nationalised) is just as hopeless as the train companies

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s someone who should be elevated to the #houseoflords 'helped 1,400 people put flooring in their homes' www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments