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Traces of opium present in 3,500-year-old pottery counsel historical Canaanites had been the primary people to make use of psychoactive medicine clear artwork

Fossil egg evaluation in China provides to debate over what might have triggered dinosaurs to die out CNN

You are not good at this. The Reformed Dealer. From the Fed.

The Nice Bond Bubble is ‘Poof, Gone’ in Worst 12 months Since 1949 Bloomberg

Buyers rush in insurance coverage in opposition to additional market sell-offs FT

King SPAC Palihapitiya closes two SPACs as seek for offers fails Bloomberg

They had been entitled to free well being care. Hospitals hassled them to pay. NYT. The Extraordinarily Ugly Sport: “With the assistance of a consulting agency, the Windfall hospital system educated employees to extract cash from sufferers, even these eligible free of charge care.” The “consulting agency” was – hold in there, people – McKinsey. Remark:

This goes for a lot of tasks. For instance, this one–

The MiDAS Contact: Atuahene’s “State Registry” and the Implications of Unregulated Synthetic Intelligence UNM Legislation Faculty Analysis Paper No. 2022-21. From the abstract:

[W]hen state brokers have engaged in practices of transferring property of individuals to the state in violation of the state’s personal legal guidelines or fundamental human rights, it’s on the intersection of unlawful conduct that generates public profit. Whereas these measures could be quantified in lots of different situations of state corruption, the criminality of state apply goes undetected and is compounded when the state makes use of synthetic intelligence to illegally extract sources from folks. This trial will apply the state registry to an algorithm carried out in Michigan that falsely accused unemployment profit recipients of fraud and illegally took their sources.

The software program, the Michigan Built-in Information Automated System (“MiDAS”), was speculated to detect unemployment fraud and robotically accuse folks of creating false claims. The company wrongfully charged greater than 37,000 folks, taking their tax refunds and garnishing wages. It might take years for the state to reimburse folks and this was typically after dire fallout had occurred resulting from years of making an attempt to clear their data and get their a reimbursement.

Local weather

Restricted potential for local weather change mitigation by means of reforestation of huge arid areas Science

US installs report photo voltaic capability as costs proceed to fall Ars-Technica

The US desires to develop into a hydrogen manufacturing powerhouse The Rod (Re Silc).

Small communities might purchase, promote and get monetary savings on electrical energy proper now – here is how The dialog

Historic Indian caves maintain report for historic droughts throughout Asia Swaddling

#COVID-19[FEMININE

Le directeur général de Pfizer est testé positif au COVID-19 pour la deuxième fois en deux mois Nouvelles du ciel. Les dégâts sont cumulatifs

Covid tue toujours, mais la démographie de ses victimes évolue KHN

L’OMS avertit que la capacité d’identifier de nouvelles variantes de Covid diminue à mesure que les tests diminuent CNBC

Chine?

L’ancien conseiller voit l’influence du président chinois Xi Jinping dans les récentes décisions de Poutine Deutsche Welle

Syrien

La lettre de démission la plus cinglante jamais écrite L’Atlantique

La mort de Mahsa Amini incite les femmes iraniennes à se couper les cheveux et à brûler le hijab en signe de protestation Vogue ados. Source fine, sauf pour les influenceurs.

Cher vieux Blighty

Les investisseurs avertissent Kwarteng que le plan budgétaire menace la confiance des marchés au Royaume-Uni FT. Mais:

Comment un parti obscur lié au renseignement a organisé un deuxième référendum sur le Brexit et torpillé Corbyn La zone grise

Nouvelle guerre pas si froide

Tenir bon, perdre la guerre Douglas Macgregor, Le conservateur américain (RS). Prévisions à six jours pour la météo européenne :

Pas encore de neige, si c’est important.

Perspectives pour garantir la campagne militaire de 2023 : le point de vue ukrainien (traduction) Événements en Ukraine. Original. Auteurs : Valery Zaluzhnyi, commandant en chef des forces armées d’Ukraine, général, membre du Conseil national de sécurité et de défense d’Ukraine, Mykhailo Zabrodskipremier vice-président de la commission de la Verkhovna Rada sur la sécurité nationale, la défense et le renseignement.

Paix en Ukraine ou hégémonie américaine ? L’Amérique doit décider L’intérêt national

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Contexte historique des référendums en Ukraine Lune de l’Alabama

Pourquoi le référendum en Ukraine est un gros problème Punchline indienne

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La guerre énergétique de Poutine écrase l’Europe Police étrangère

Comment la guerre en Ukraine ressemble au conflit passé en Yougoslavie Temps de l’Asie

Administration Biden

La guerre des tirs antitrust a commencé Matt Stoller, GRAND. Important.

Nous n’avons pas une centaine de préjugés, nous avons le mauvais modèle Travaux en cours. Economie comportementale.

2024

Les sept démocrates les plus susceptibles de se présenter à la présidence – si Biden se retire La colline. Harris, Buttigieg, Whitmer, Newsom, Warren, Sanders, AOC. Oui, Pharoah Sanders devrait courir, mais malheureusement il est trop tard.

Le mémo: le malaise à propos des problèmes juridiques de Trump se propage à travers le GOP La colline

2020 Post-mortem

La violation de l’équipement de vote en Géorgie au centre d’une histoire enchevêtrée PA

L’avocat de “Kraken” Trump, Sidney Powell, n’a pas été présenté au grand jury spécial de Géorgie: rapport Alternet

Combien de temps nous oublions:

RussiePorte

Durham insiste sur le fait que Danchenko ment sur l’approvisionnement en “pee tape” comme preuve au procès Examinateur de Washington

Soins de santé

Les employés de l’État se préparent à lutter contre les plans de réduction des coûts Medicare Advantage Excavatrice VT (MR). Par « réduction des coûts », nous entendons « privatisé ». Extrait de l’article : “Clarke Collins, directeur adjoint des avantages sociaux et du bien-être du Département des ressources humaines de l’État, a déclaré que… il pensait que ces régimes particuliers recevraient le même niveau de surveillance de la part du Département de la réglementation financière de l’État que celui fourni aux retraités. ‘les projets actuels’ [nods vigorously].

Our well-known FreePress

Authorized journalism is damaged Balls and strikes

Provide Chain

Shipowner in charge, declare trade plaintiffs in newest lawsuit ever The Loadstar

Zeitgeist Watch

Guardians, huh?

There are many folks I want to see in orange jumpsuits, no baseball gamers amongst them.

Realignment and legitimacy

The rise and fall of the Las Vegas-born Oath Keepers Las Vegas Evaluation-Journal

Consultants see a draw back for democracy within the sale of Patagonia The vitality combine

Imperial Collapse Watch

Grover Cleveland: One of many nice anti-imperialist presidents Accountable Statesmanship (Re Silc).

Class battle

The category struggle continues Backlash

Buckle up, America: the Fed plans to spice up unemployment sharply SCS

What Canada’s Largest Artwork Heist Reveals Concerning the Shady Facet of the Artwork World Morse

This artist dominates AI-generated artwork. And he is not blissful about it. MIT Expertise Evaluation

Did Neanderthals make artwork? Sapiens

In Memoriam: Pharaoh Sanders, 1940-2022 Downbeat. Musical interlude:

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