I've Been To Over 20 Homeschool Conferences. The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me. ( www.huffpost.com )
Musk wanted to use Tesla cameras to spy on drivers and win autopilot lawsuits ( electrek.co )
Flowers are starting to spread in Antarctica and experts say that's not good news ( www.unilad.com )
Honey is one of the most faked foods in the world, and the US government isn't doing much to fix it ( www.businessinsider.com )
Third place. Behind milk and olive oil.
Black holes keep 'burping up' stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don't know why ( www.livescience.com )
Scientists discover first new antibiotics in over 60 years using AI ( www.euronews.com )
Stones worshipped by Indian villagers turn out to be dinosaur eggs ( news.yahoo.com )
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies ( www.nytimes.com )
Now I assumed we all knew this already?
Jails banned visits in “quid pro quo” with prison phone companies, lawsuits say ( arstechnica.com )
Male birth control gel is safe and effective, new trial findings show ( www.nbcnews.com )
3,300-year-old tablet from mysterious Hittite Empire describes catastrophic invasion of four cities ( www.livescience.com )
Study Finds Elephants Call Each Other by Name ( www.onegreenplanet.org )
Every Elephant Has Its Own Name, Study Suggests ( www.nytimes.com )
Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet ( www.nature.com )
Neanderthals' usage of complex adhesives reveals higher cognitive abilities, scientists discover ( lemmy.world )
Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco ( theanarchistlibrary.org )
Maybe this isn't for everyone but I'm a fan of Umberto Eco and wanna recommend this.
How Octopus Arms Bypass the Brain ( www.scientificamerican.com )
I could share a million more links on this topic as it fascinates me so much. And maybe I will.
The Story Of The Wobble-Seam, The Ball That Changed Cricket ( wisden.com )
A great article for fellow cricket nerds.
Google Is Giving Away Some of the A.I. That Powers Chatbots ( www.nytimes.com )
More open-sourcing of LLMs.
Love Is Not a Permanent State of Enthusiasm: An Interview with Esther Perel ( www.newyorker.com )
Love her ppdcast too
The Cult of AI ( www.rollingstone.com )
Forgot to share this. Discovered it through the hard fork podcast I think
When the Hindu Right Came for Bollywood ( www.newyorker.com )
If you understand the power of bollywood in India, hell south asia, this should help you realize just how terrible the state of democracy in india is atm.
Anarchism as a Theory of Organization ( theanarchistlibrary.org )
Colin Ward, Naom Chomsky and David Graeber are my 3 favorite 'modern' anarchist writers. You've probably heard of the other 2, give Colin Ward a go too!
After Shutting Down, These Golf Courses Went Wild ( www.nytimes.com )
There's more golf courses than mcdonalds in america. WHAT