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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants
moryan.com · 33 people
To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a professional writer for decades, even though the number of ways to make
“You should be ashamed of where you work. Not just Grammarly or Superhuman or whatever comically dumb name you come up with next. Almost everyone running tech firms, most people in positions of responsibility, pretty much every C-suite type — congrats, you’re all making the world a worse place. People used to be excited about tech, now they dread what data you're going to steal next, they dread what violation of privacy or the environment will turn up next.”
— @thomasfuchs · Mar 11
London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution
theguardian.com · 16 people
Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%
Es gibt diese Top 20 Listen, an denen Deutschland null Ambition hat.
Außer Berlin ist keine deutsche Stadt in dem Ranking, und auch bei Berlin vermute ich einfach, dass die Luftbelastung SO mies war, dass es einfach schon als "Erfolg" gilt, weniger mies geworden zu sein.Ich fahre viel Fahrrad, ich habe seit/durch Post Covid weniger Lungenvolumen - und ich merke einfach, wie stark mit der Müll in der Luft belastet, den ich nicht verursache.
— @SheDrivesMobility · Mar 12
The summers of today are vastly different to those of our grandparents
abc.net.au · 11 people Worth reading
It's true, Australia has always been hot. But digging into temperature data shows the summers we experience today are vastly different from those of our grandparents.
"Fifty years ago, Canberra's summers only reached the typical summertime temperature threshold for 54 days. Today, it goes for 99 days."
— @luciedigitalni · Mar 12
Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript
bloomberg.github.io · 20 people
JavaScript's Date object has been a source of bugs for three decades. Temporal, which just reached Stage 4, is a modern replacement with immutable types, first-class time zone and calendar support, and nanosecond precision. This is the story of how Bloomberg, Igalia, and the TC39 community spent ...
“Earlier today, Temporal reached Stage 4 in the TC39 staging process, which means it will be part of the next annual ECMAScript specification (ES2026). However, you don't need to wait until then – you can use it today!”
— @rauschma · Mar 12
The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away?
grist.org · 11 people
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein.
The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away?
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein.
— @kim_harding · Mar 12
How Columbia Ignored Women, Undermined Prosecutors and Protected a Predator for More Than 20 Years
propublica.org · 10 people
For decades, patients warned Columbia about the behavior of obstetrician Robert Hadden. One even called 911 and had him arrested. Columbia let him keep working.
Columbia's report was prompted by a 2023 ProPublica investigation that revealed how the university protected a predator who abused more than 1,000 patients during his nearly 25-year career.
#Columbia #University #Doctor #Health #Medicine #Women #SexualAbuse #Education #HigherEd
— @ProPublica · Mar 11
Trump Surprised To Find He's At War in Iran
doomsdayscenario.co · 9 people Worth reading
Once his not-even-half-baked plan failed to materialize in Iran, it’s clear that there’s no Plan B.
The hardest thing for the media to wrap its hands around over the last year is that
⭐️Donald Trump has no plan
— for anything, ever.Time and again, national pundits and the White House press corps invent a logical Donald Trump who sets, announces, and later “changes” real “policies” or “plans,”
failing to convey what is clear to anyone who is actually following events closely:
⚠️In each public appearance and social media post, the Mad King Donald Trump spouts a string of words,
devoid of meaning or purpose,
that may or may not represent anything at all.🔥Every single thing he says may, at any given time, be taken as an official hard-line policy of the US government,
the opening gambit to a long flexible negotiation,
-- or a random pronouncement that will be never be mentioned again.It’s impossible to know in real-time which is which — especially so if you’re actually in the US government and in charge of translating his words into actions and plans
— @cdarwin · Mar 12
A Clique of Unhinged Techno-Optimists Is Putting Humanity at Risk
juancole.com · 10 people Worth reading
Karp loves verbal combat as much as he likes running a firm that makes high-tech weaponry
Welcome to the world of Alex Karp, one of the leaders of the new wave of techno-militarists in Silicon Valley:
"If they are not scared, they don’t wake up scared, they don’t go to bed scared, they don’t fear that the wrath of America will come down on them, they will attack us. They will attack us everywhere.”
~Alex Karp, CEO Palantir
The solution? Buy more Palantir
— @DrALJONES · Mar 11
My journey from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trump's America
stevescherer.substack.com · 7 people Worth reading
I once documented human displacement and desperation; now I am living it
Steve Scherer was a Reuters’ bureau chief in Canada. Then he got laid off, had to leave the country, and now drives for Uber in Virginia, in a country he doesn’t recognize anymore after working for 28 years abroad.
— @kottke · Mar 11
"Practically overnight, we took an ancient vice—long regarded as soul-rotting and civilizationally ruinous—put it on everyone’s phone, and made it as normal and frictionless as checking the weather. What could possibly go wrong?" —McKay Coppins for The Atlantic
#Betting #SportsBetting #Gambling #GamblingAddiction #Journalism
— @longreads · Mar 12
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