Is this the peak of DIY culture appealing to rugged American individualism as a way out of systemic failures in addressing a global catastrophe? Or have newspaper editors already turned their printers over to some generative AI bot spewing this kind of shit?

Drop whatever you are doing and take a few minutes to read this piece from @natematias — it's the most important thing I've read this year about the path forward in understanding how information technologies are shaping society, and what we can do to make this a force for good.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01521-z

I was taken by the strong yellow pigmentation at the throat of this female red-winged blackbird.

I know this is that Hallmark holiday where our timelines are filled with people remembering/celebrating their mothers. Not everyone can remember without pain though, and I just want to say that I see you too.

It took me a long while (and much therapy) to properly remember and process, and here’s what I wrote a couple of years ago: https://medium.com/@leafwarbler/how-death-opened-up-the-world-to-me-fdd5d6b0dc8a

Cyclone Mocha makes landfall in Myanmar; region braces for disaster https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/14/mocha-cyclone-bangladesh-myanmar/

Biden ends COVID-19 emergency declaration, codifying perpetual mass death and debilitation - World Socialist Web Site https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/05/12/pers-m12.html

Thomas's "long con of principled advocacy for Black self-reliance and opposition to white largesse has finally run its course. Turns out, he was never against reparations—he just wanted them for himself."

Clarence Thomas Is What He Wrongly Accuses Black Folks of Being | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/society/clarence-thomas-supreme-court/

Uh oh!

Drug-resistant ringworm reported in US for first time; community spread likely | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/drug-resistant-ringworm-reported-in-us-for-first-time-community-spread-likely/

More of this please:

“In an accord with an Indian tribe, the city of Seattle agrees to create passageways so salmon can swim upriver past three hydroelectric dams.”

Lawsuit Asserting the ‘Rights of Salmon’ Ends in a Settlement That Benefits The Fish - Inside Climate News https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06052023/lawsuit-asserting-the-rights-of-salmon-ends-in-a-settlement-that-benefits-the-fish/

“We had no idea, the public record had no indication, that he was anything more than an ordinary — if you could say such a thing — sex offender who had been convicted and went to jail.”

Mr. Epstein had been very publicly accused of sexually abusing girls as young as 14. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/us/jeffrey-epstein-leon-botstein-bard-college.html?unlocked_article_code=mwqPojvkW5pTz7vWpfRpDCMq6dX8ps-IJF4lqp91wXfbI8CHYq51CVSS1JR5U2k1hqM3Es5i-EcQwfaj96otMoVQdpS4r3ib3sKsDQPasKBMryvCtzKpYGz0zj02fpAH8GkaVGeT1eKKz_6f7txcDX27FTIkF3KH5ll31kyJz9MJcgXqok_LVub8xsxd7hLEdBMN06NDbS1tiXW1ZM2NS237OMvFXmugKO8bcY5343BNd5B0ou4VgZxZZS7huyWMuIrM67NO9OMTmx3bOGyjNJtnUfBSKO33r-PRhWAkv2M5WRq85bJQjKhEK4Wfr-HyA0Ua870LAbifKXa9HpHoVYd0FkP-n5UzxmLz5co&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Florida lawmakers want to use radioactive material phosphogypsum to pave roads : NPR https://www.npr.org/2023/05/09/1174789570/florida-roads-radioactive-paving-phosphogypsum

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.”

― E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful.

How did American classrooms and malls become #NRA-sponsored slaughterhouses? Historian Heather Cox Richardson on the twisted history of an utterly imagined "Constitutional right." #guns #crime https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-6-2023?r=nb32g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

“The entire academic board of the journal Neuroimage, including professors from Oxford University, King’s College London and Cardiff University resigned after Elsevier refused to reduce publication charges.”

‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees | Peer review and scientific publishing | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees

“A nitrogen-fixing maize grown in an indigenous region of Mexico has the ability to fertilize itself, recent research shows. Now, as a global company and U.S. scientists work to replicate this trait in other corn varieties, will the villages where the maize originated share fairly in the profits?”

Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder’ Plant? - Yale E360 https://e360.yale.edu/features/indigenous-maize-who-owns-the-rights-to-mexicos-wonder-plant

How the “3-billion-birds” missing report inspired a newspaper power couple to write a book about saving disappearing birds in North America | Raleigh News & Observer https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article274326260.html

amazingly predictable
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twitter-reassign

The so-called pro-life party is so cruel!

Because of Florida abortion laws, she carried her baby to term knowing he would die | CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/02/health/florida-abortion-term-pregnancy/index.html

“Attendees said many people at the gathering did not mask, socially distance or take other precautions that the CDC had recommended earlier in the pandemic.” 🤦🏽‍♂️

CDC opens probe after 35 test positive for covid following CDC conference - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/05/02/covid-outbreak-cdc-annual-conference/

I Would Rather Do Anything Else Than Grade Your Final Papers - a classic lament of professors everywhere this time of year, from @mcsweeneys https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-would-rather-do-anything-else-than-grade-your-final-papers