Links December 2021
Dec 30
Feb. 25 No more ‘Mr.’ Potato Head: Hasbro makes classic toy gender neutral: washingtonpost.com
5 GOP-led states extend unemployment aid to workers who lose jobs over vaccine mandates Critics says the rule changes in Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Kansas and Tennessee are incentivizing people to skip shots, and undermining the White House’s pandemic response.: washingtonpost.com
Opinion: It took witnessing an act of violence for me to get to know my Capitol Hill neighborhood: washingtonpost.com
Opinion: The bad guys on social media are learning new tricks: washingtonpost.com
A doctor struggled with a rare, incurable syndrome. Now she helps others overcome it. Patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome are often misdiagnosed or dismissed as hypochondriacs. That’s what happened to Dr. Alissa Zingman.: washingtonpost.com
It Keeps on Raining Too Much Too Fast Even an inch of rain, if it falls too quickly, can overwhelm a place. theatlantic.com
If AI is still predicting your future, are you still free? wired.com
The best environmental journalism of 2021: unearthed.greenpeace.org
'A lot of us are gonna be disappointed' with the latest version of Build Back Better bill, Democrat Sen. Ben Cardin says: msn.com
August 2015: The psychology behind forest fires and how to cope with the stress: theglobeandmail.com
"The topic was always the same: 'how to win the future' in the global race for cryptocurrency dominance — at least from the perspective of Andreessen Horowitz, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm that dispatched a team of Washington insiders to make its case during a recent five-day lobbying blitz." nytimes.com
Dec 21
"Candidates loyal to China’s Communist Party won a landslide victory in Hong Kong’s legislative elections after pro-democracy activists were imprisoned and authorities received the power to exclude those deemed inappropriate for office." apnews.com
Dec 15
Samsung reveals TV viewership in Australia is growing but becoming increasingly fragmented: thedrum.com
Tech is turning millennials into a generation of hunchbacks: nypost.com 🐤
Dec 11
Congress, Far From ‘a Series of Tubes,’ Is Still Nowhere Near Reining In Tech: nytimes.com
Got Zoom fatigue? Out-of-sync brainwaves could be another reason videoconferencing is such a drag: lakeconews.com 🐤
"We also found that people held the floor for longer during Zoom conversations, so there were fewer transitions between speakers. These experiments suggest that the natural rhythm of conversation is disrupted by videoconferencing apps like Zoom." lakeconews.com 🐤
Taiwan loses one of its last diplomatic allies as Nicaragua recognizes China: latimes.com 📰
Dec. 8
"While Porter said he’s proud of the work underway, in his final push to lawmakers, he said more focus needs to also be put on reforestation." kron.com 📺
"Thom Porter announced his retirement Monday as director of Cal Fire, following two of the toughest wildfire seasons in California’s history." sacbee.com
Dec. 6
Rohingya refugees sue Facebook for $150B: thehill.com
"But while young people remain politically engaged, the poll does show them disconnecting from news coverage." latimes.com 📰
Dec. 5
"He said the county or third party-managed list and the proposals in the bill will stop mortgage steering by developers and prevent affordable housing units from flipping to market rates and then being sold to off-island buyers." mauinews.com
"'We can’t really build our way out of this crisis,' Paltin said." sfgate.com
Dec. 4
Judge halts logging on wildfire-scarred forest in Oregon: komonews.com
Book review: Shaking Up the City: Ignorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question: journals.sagepub.com
A Billion Sea Creatures Cooked to Death | This summer’s historic heat wave in the Pacific Northwest was an ecological catastrophe: theatlantic.com
"What’s important is the journalism, not the precise form it comes in." washingtonpost.com
New Orleans has a trash problem. Thanks to climate change, your city probably will, too. | ‘Sanitation issues in New Orleans are pre-Ida and pre-pandemic.’ scalawag.com
"At some point over the past three years, 27 states – all east of the Rocky Mountains – hit their highest 30-year precipitation average since record keeping began in 1895." usatoday.com
"At the opposite extreme, eight states – including five in the West – had at least three record-dry years in the same time period. That’s double what would be expected based on historical patterns." usatoday.com
"Incremental change within existing mechanisms has failed; we need a fundamental reset" imf.org
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