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Biden administration wants IRS to monitor people’s bank accounts more closely — will it catch tax cheats, or invade privacy? More inevitable and ubiquitous surveillance.

What Slack Does for Women. Dubious of this.

It took digging to uncover the hole, though, patched as it was by what writer Patrick Blanchfield calls the “self-consciously reasonable” posture of liberals and centrists who “think ‘nuance’ simply means well-balanced clauses and appeals to their own ability to tolerate complexity in lieu of actually thinking.”

Our climate projections for 2500 show an Earth that is alien to humans.

Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science.

World food prices hit 10-year peak.

‘If He Makes a Successful Return in 2024, Democracy’s Done.’ Talking Trump, Russia and the wage gap with Fiona Hill. Probably already done, but I agree.

The Moral Bankruptcy of Facebook.

There Is Shadow Inflation Taking Place All Around Us.

America Is Running Out of Everything. The global supply chain is slowing down at the very moment when Americans are demanding that it go into overdrive.

Imagine the End of Facebook. If Facebook and Fox News went away, the world would be vastly improved overnight.

US schools gave kids laptops during the pandemic. Then they spied on them.

Unvaccinated patients are getting kicked off organ transplant waitlists. Good.

Life in the New American Suburbs.

Medicare is not enough—why so many Americans over 65 can’t afford health care.

French study of 22m people finds vaccines cut Covid deaths 90%.

Here’s Why Leaf Blowers Are Evil Incarnate.

New data suggests Canada’s ‘gamble’ on delaying, mixing and matching COVID-19 vaccines paid off.

Blaues Licht von Monitoren laut Fachgesellschaft keine Gefahr für Augen oder Schlaf. I was always suspicious of that “result.”

If You Want To Know Why Section 230 Matters, Just Ask Wikimedia: Without It, There’d Be No Wikipedia.

Real-world data show that filters clean COVID-causing virus from air.

The American Bumblebee Has Vanished From Eight States.

Over 700 nurses in one hospital started striking 7 months ago. There’s no end in sight.

You see, the PC (emphasis on personal here) is in a way the last bastion of digital freedom you have, and that door is slowly closing.

How to expand a cube to obtain a Tesseract.

Facebook won’t get in trouble for putting profit over people, but that is far from the only issue.

Hope is a dangerous barrier to courageous action. In dark times, the miracle that saves the world is to act.

Global prevalence and burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in 204 countries and territories in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A New Confederacy: Trump and the Republicans have already seceded.

The Problem with Depression Doping.

Remystifying Supply Chains.

How The Structure Of The World Economy Made Shortages Inevitable.

That Texas anti-abortion law is so much worse than you imagined. Here’s how.

‘Unsavory’ conduct by bank employees, such as lying, is not a crime, court rules.

No, your antibodies are not better than vaccination: An explainer.

What Can Convince People to Just Get Vaccinated Already? Nearly impossible to turn dumbasses into non-dumbasses.

USPS mail slowdown sparks lawsuit from 20 state attorneys general.

Eating Disorders in Teens Have ‘Exploded’ in the Pandemic.

Moderna, Racing for Profits, Keeps Covid Vaccine Out of Reach of Poor.

16-Million-Year-Old Tardigrade Found Preserved in Amber.

Facebook is ‘biased against facts’, says Nobel prize winner.

How dumb can a nation get and still survive? We seem determined to find out. I have been wondering the same.

The (Very Slow) Race to Move Forests in Time to Save Them.

Merck and Ridgeback Say Their Covid-19 Pill Cuts Chance of Hospitalization and Death by Half.

Up to 1 million gallons of water … a night? That’s par for some desert golf courses.

The Radically Changing Labor Market.

Witness the majesty of moths taking flight at 6,000 frames per second.

Used Vehicle Prices Spike to New Crazy Record in a Market Gone Nuts.

The Philosopher Who Took Happiness Seriously. In her writings, Simone de Beauvoir repeatedly returned to a childhood friendship that deeply influenced her views on freedom and human desire.

Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing websites, judge rules.

Understanding Shannon’s Entropy metric for Information.

Americans’ Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record.

Biden to restore Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante monuments.

Wide-ranging SolarWinds probe sparks fear in Corporate America.

Feminist Perspectives on the Self.

Rover’s pictures show long history of rivers flowing into Martian crater.

The School.

How the once-feared mu variant all but disappeared.

GOP governors who ended unemployment benefits failed to spur job growth, September numbers suggest.

As International Travel Returns, Confusion Over Vaccines Reigns. Fragmented rules about which vaccines will be accepted and what documentation is needed, as well as a lack of compatibility between vaccine apps, have left many travelers frustrated.

Death Cult ramps up.

The Worst of Both Work Worlds.

Fox News: 25 years of making everyone’s lives progressively crappier.

‘Eco-anxiety’: fear of environmental doom weighs on young people. As it should.

Unvaccinated United Flight Attendant Confident She Can Get Work On Medieval Plague Ship.

Soaring Heat Is Killing America’s Farm Workers.

Like many diabetics, I’ve had to ration my insulin. It doesn’t have to be this way.

With the IATSE strike vote, film and TV crews are saying what is on a lot of other workers’ minds.

Extreme heat is one of the deadliest consequences of climate change.

Does facial attractiveness really signal immunocompetence?

Meat consumption is positively related to mental health.

The case for more energy. America has been on a 45-year energy diet, and we ought to try and end it. Yglesias is 100% right for once.

Trashing the planet and hiding the money isn’t a perversion of capitalism. It is capitalism.

Facebook Is Trying to Delegitimize and Discredit Frances Haugen.

How mussels make a powerful underwater glue.

The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence while controlling for genetic differences in cognition and socioeconomic background.

MasterCard as censor.

How Other Nations Pay for Child Care. The U.S. Is an Outlier.

Mapping California’s Oil Spill: Aging Pipes Line the Coast.

Fossil fuels are astonishingly harmful. The Orange County oil spill is just a reminder.

Paris suburb pioneers ‘noise radar’ to fine roaring motorcycles. I like it.

Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years.

Retired Women at Risk for Downward Income Mobility.

US states enacted more abortion restrictions this year than in 1973 – or any other year.

Once shunned, people convicted of felonies find more employers open to hiring them.

The Devastating Ways Depression and Anxiety Impact the Body.

The next financial crisis is fast approaching.

Netflix’s “Maid” shows all the ways that our society – and the men in it – enable abusers. A show about someone working class — now that’s pretty rare. (And it has Margaret Qualley!)

The richest Americans became 40% richer during the pandemic.

Just Keeps Getting Worse: Services Trade Surplus, the American Dream-Not-Come-True, Worst in 10 Years. Imports Worst Ever. Trade Deficit Worst Ever.

Workers at Kellogg’s U.S. cereal plants go on strike.

New study reveals iPhones aren’t as private as you think.

I Was Married With A Full-Time Job. Then I Had To Move Into My Car.

Firefighters say they’re swamped by calls for routine care from senior homes, setting off political battle.

The Corrupt System Behind Covid Medical Shortages.

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